Hi everyone,

*Excited to announce to save the date for the Queer/Trans Fall Welcome

Event on September 27 from 7-9 pm in room 305.* Last year we had about 50

folks show up, and many incoming and returning students told me how

meaningful it was for them to see faculty, staff, doc students, masters,

and bachelors students all at this event.

RSVP at the FB event if you use FB:

https://www.facebook.com/events/180337712653722

Feel free to share this email/flier. I will be sending an ask out as the

date nears for folks who teach to share with their classes on 9/26 and 9/27.

See more info below about other upcoming community celebrations!

RSVP here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/catalyst/chooser/9633ca0e90e10f822ebbf2e4d93e9739

IWRI Hosted Graduation (June 7, 10-12 contact ksmurp66@uw.edu)

Core Programs: First Gen Graduate Students Celebration (June 6, 4:30-6 RSVP)

Sampling of other UW Community Celebrations – most have RSVPs:

Raven’s Feast (June 8, 6-10)

Lavender (June 5, 6-8:30)

La Raza (June 4, 4:30-7)

Black Grad (June 8, 7p)

FIUTS (June 8, 3:30-4:30)

Filipino Graduation (June 1, 5:30-8:30)

Pasifik (June 7, 5-7)

Scroll down on the bottom of this page for links and more info for most UW-wide events:

http://www.washington.edu/graduation/school-and-department-ceremonies/

SSW Prom! (organized by your Student Advisory Council, SAC)

Friday, June 1^st at 7:30pm

The UW School of Social Work Student Advisory Council (SAC) invites you to an evening of great fun with your fellow social work peers on Friday, June 1st from 7:30 – 10:00 PM.
Recommended Attire: Formal dress from past decades.
Further details to come.
Please RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/SACPROM2018 by May 25th, 2018 if you plan on attending! You’re more than welcome to bring along a significant other or friend, but please make sure you include them when you RSVP.

We also have a need for volunteers to ensure that the first annual School of Social Work Prom is a success! We need help creating decorations, bringing baked goods for our dessert potluck, day of set up and take down, a DJ, photographers and a camera/tripod to take prom photos with. If interested, please sign up here at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5C2LH8C

You’re invited to:

Play Time With PAWS

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

12-1 p.m.

UW Tower South Cafeteria

Make toys for baby companion animals & snuggle and play with kittens arriving this spring at PAWS in Lynnwood! Learn about this amazing organization including the PAWS Wildlife Center.

$10 minimum donation helps cover the cost of supplies. Register today! Open to all faculty, staff and students. Sponsored by the UW Combined Fund Drive and The Whole U.

Lavender Graduation

Seattle // wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House // Tuesday, June 5 // 6–8:30 p.m. // Register by May 25

The Q Center and QSC host Lavender Graduation for UW queer, trans, two-spirit, and  ​allied​ communities to come together and celebrate our multiple identities, our accomplishments, and sheer AWESOMENESS. If you are graduating, register by May 25. Register here to volunteer.

Greetings Social Welfare Scholars!

Each year, the health sciences schools host the Hogness Symposium and bring in phenomenal speakers. The John R. Hogness Symposium highlights issues of healthcare policy on a national level to inspire action among those in the Health Sciences fields in honor of John R. Hogness and his contributions to the field. Past speakers include Harriet A. Washington, Jocelyn Elders, and Harold P. Freeman.

We would like input from social work students, staff, and faculty regarding the 2019 Hogness Symposium speaker. Please vote for your choices at the survey link below.

Responses are due by May 1!

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jpiboon/353543

Thank you for your input! We have the opportunity, as a community, to bring important social justice voices to the forefront. Vote on!

“Sharing Across Generations: Honoring Indigenous Food Kinships: The Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ”

Indigenous Foods and Ecological Knowledge Symposium

May 4 and 5, 2018

8:45am – 5:00 pm 

UW wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House

Includes continental breakfast and traditional foods lunch both days!

UW Students FREE! Other students and elders half off

Join us for this year’s Living Breath Indigenous Foods and Ecological Knowledge Symposium. This year we have opened our doors to invite you to two days of amazing panels and break-out sessions in honor of Native Youth and Elders. Elders have much to give and pass on. What are the best ways to listen to and  honor our knowledge bearers? How do young people look to the future of our Native nations and communities and their sacred relations with their place and their planet? This year we make the conversation between elders and youth prominent! Join us to share knowledge, experience and expertise on tribal food sovereignty initiatives, food justice and security, traditional foods and health, indigenous foods systems and global climate change. We invite all of you who hold these issues dear to join us for this important conversation. Your voice is welcomed!

* A link to the two-day schedule will be uploaded to the American Indian Studies website soon.

We have a great line-up of speakers and presentations!

– “Transformational Eating: Ceremony of Gratitude.”

– “Rotinoshon:ni Seeds and Sovereignty, from Creation to Contamination: Looking at the Effects of Genetically Modified Organisms on Indigenous Seeds and People.”

– “Iskwew mācīwin, Woman hunting, among the paskwāwiyiniwak, muskegowininiwak, and sakāithiniwak (Plains, Swampy & Woodland Cree peoples).”

– Empowering Muckleshoot Youth through Traditional Foods, Plants, Medicines, and Living Cultural.”

– “Everyday Healing Practices: Implementing Immaterial Cultural Wealth to Combat Intergenerational Trauma.”

– “Native Youth Culinary Roots.”

– “Building and Sustaining an Indigenous Community Garden.”

– “Yahowt Indigenous Women’s Permaculture Program.”

Register at: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3339286

* All prices include a continental breakfast and a traditional Northwest Coast foods lunch included for day or days purchased.

Adults: 20.00 for a day or 35.00 for both days

UW Students (Seattle, Tacoma and Bothell) FREE but must register.

Youth rate (12-21):10.00 one day/15.00 both days

Elders: (65 and over)-10.00 one day/15.00 both days

NOTE: A one-day ticket allows you to enter whatever day that you use it. One-day tickets aren’t issued specific to date. Please purchase and we will record your entrance at event.

TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT THE DOOR

For more information contact symposium coordinator Stephanie Riedl at stephanie@naahillahee.org.

For registration questions contact the registration coordinator Jordan Woolston at jorbrowo@uw.edu.

Symposium sponsors: Na’ah Illahee Fund, UW’s American Indian Studies Department, Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity, College of the Environment, Devon Peña (The Acequia Institute) Bill Holm Center, UW-Tacoma, Social and Historical Studies, UW-Tacoma, Office of Equity & Inclusion, wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House, Lucy Jarosz (Department of Geography), Jackson School/Canadian Studies, Dr. Marc Gladney.

Planning Committee: Dr. Charlotte Coté, Dr. Dian Million,  Jessica Hernandez, Dr. Michelle Montgomery, Susan Balbas, Dr. Clarita Lefthand Begay, and Jordan Woolston.

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Charlotte Coté (Tseshaht/Nuu-chah-nulth), Ph.D.

Associate Professor, University of Washington, Department of American Indian Studies, Box 354305,Seattle, WA, 98195,(206)221-6549,https://ais.washington.edu/.

Author: Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions, UW Press,http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/COTSPI.html.

– Affiliated Faculty, UW Canadian Studies Center Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, https://jsis.washington.edu/canada/

– Chair, UW wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House Planning Committee, http://www.washington.edu/diversity/tribal-relations/intellectual-house/committee-members/.

– Chair,”The Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ” Indigenous Foods and Ecological Knowledge Symposium Planning Committee,www.facebook.com/UWLivingBreath?fref=ts.

– Co-Editor, Indigenous Confluences Series, UW Press, http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/series/SeriesIC.html.

– President, Potlatch Fund, http://www.potlatchfund.org/.

Paid focus group about stress for trans/non-binary folks, please forward/share freely

Hi folks! My name is Vern (they) and I am a social work doc student at UW. I am helping out Natasha out with her dissertation study. She is a Psych student in California who works with trans clients and does trans advocacy work. We are recruiting trans/enby etc folks for focus groups, and you will be compensated for your time. Feel free to let trans/enby friends know about this 🙂 I know that we are burdened with research studies because we’re ‘trendy’ all of a sudden, but I truly believe in this project, am a real live trans person myself, and the time is compensated with a stipend and snacks.

The information gathered by this study will be used to inform practitioners (by way of poster/conference presentation and paper publication) about the ways trans folks experience stress. I am also committed to making sure research findings are accessible to community members and organizations, so always find alternative ways to make information accessible (primarily through my website and resources I create that are publicly available, classes I teach, organizations I volunteer or consult with, etc). Additionally, community/academic partners are shown on the flier. Natasha and I are both happy to answer any questions about the study, how the information will be used, etc–as she’s the lead, I might defer to her, depending on the question/concern.

Seeking Trans and Non-Binary Adults for Interview Study

▪Do you identify as trans, non-binary or genderqueer?
▪ Are you comfortable talking to a group about your experiences with stress?
▪ Would you like to help with a dissertation research project?

This study involves one 2-2.5 hour visit to the Equal Rights Washington office in Seattle in early May. Participants are offered $25 payment for their time spent in a focus group discussion.

To be eligible, you must: 1) Identify as transgender
and/or non-binary/genderqueer (see note below); 2) Be at least 18 years of age; 3) Speak, read, and write in English.

For more information please contact:
Natasha Gadinsky, (415) 964-0362, Natashag@stanford.edu

*If you are unsure if this includes you, please call Natasha Gadinsky to ask.

Independent Contact: If you are not satisfied with how this study is being conducted, or if you have any concerns, complaints, or general questions about the research or your rights as a participant, please contact the Stanford Institutional Review Board (IRB) to speak to someone independent of the research team at (650)-723-5244 or toll free at 1-866-680-2906.

As you may recall, the Special Olympics USA Games are coming to Seattle and the University of Washington the first week of July, with June 30 being a “move in” day. The volunteer registration period wraps up at the end of April and the last few remaining opportunities are waiting for your consideration at:

www.specialolympicsusagames.org/uw-volunteers

Volunteers must be at least fourteen years old and each will receive a USA Games t-shirt, backpack, meal pass, Games credentials, an optional hat and a rewarding experience.

Make your 2018 4th of July week one that you will remember for a lifetime by signing up as a USA Games volunteer!

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Monthly rental, S650 per month, private bedroom & bathroom and shared apartment.

Queen Anne, close to Ballard Bridge and Burke Gilman Trail, 3-4 miles from UW, Bus #32.

Outside entrance, with outside deck and view. Cable available, most pets okay.

Call Mary Kaiser, 206-390-3927 / UW, School of Social Work, mbk2@uw.edu

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Are you interested in involving community in your research process but uncertain where to start?  Do you already involve members of the public in your research process and would you like to connect with like-minded people around your experience?

Join us on Saturday, April 7^th from 9am-1pm for “Going Public: Connecting Research & Community” where we’ll explore engaging community in the research process through public scholarship, citizen science, community-engaged research, and participatory research.  This interdisciplinary event offers an opportunity to expand your skills through several workshop offerings, to hear from researchers and community participants on their experiences through our “Research & Community Connections” panel presentation, and to see the different shapes this research can take through our graduate student poster display.  For full details about our event including the schedule, please see the “Going Public: Connecting Research & Community” website.

This event is free and open to all: faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students, and community members from outside the university.  To ensure your space in our event, please register in advance.  Registration will remain open until filled

.

What can adversity, struggle, and failure teach us about success, meaning, identity, resilience, and ultimately, how to Fail Forward?

Come hear local leaders share the setbacks, struggles, and failures they experienced on their paths to success in a panel discussion moderated by Undergraduate Academic Affairs’ Dr. Anne Browning and Dean Ed Taylor.

Wednesday, April 4th
Doors & Dinner – 5 p.m. | Main Event – 5:30-7 p.m.
Intellectual House – UW Seattle campus

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS – INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION SESSION

Students across the health sciences are invited to sign up to attend an interprofessional education event on emergency preparedness.  The event is scheduled for Tuesday, April 10 from 8:00 to 9:50 a.m., in South Campus Center Room 316.  This event will include students from other health services disciplines and is designed to help students understand the various perspectives on emergency preparedness, response and recovery. Refreshments will be provided and available at 7:30 a.m.

Space is limited.  Any interested student should sign up for the remaining seats at the program as soon as possible.  Click here to sign up!

If you have questions, please contact Nicole Woodard, Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education, nwoodard@uw.edu.

This website and initiative is curated by Tiana Brawley, current MSW student, and Louie Leiva, current Urban Planning Graduate Student:

https://www.beartandurbanism.com

We are highlighting African Diaspora identified students, creatives, artists, and change makers who represent Black Excellence and advocacy. We are shedding light on Black History, Black Futurism, and making our stories visible and vibrant in our communities. Stay tuned for programming from BEarturbanism and please contact me, Tiana Brawley, for more information concerning this initiative, collaborations, and suggestions:  tsbrawley@gmail.com

Dear UW Students,

We urge you to participate in this research study on student experiences with housing and food. This tri-campus study is motivated by concern for the well-being of university students in light of the increased costs of living in the Puget Sound region and the lack of systematic information about how students on all three UW campuses are affected by the economic changes in our region.

Please take 10-15 minutes of your time to share your valuable thoughts in this voluntary and confidential survey. The survey will be open through March 16, and participants will be entered into a drawing for one of 20 $100 Visa gift cards.

Survey link: https://tinyurl.com/housingandfood

Your participation today can help lead to better support for students in the future.

Sponsored by the Urban@UW Homelessness Research Initiative: For more information on the “Understanding Housing and Food Insecurity Among UW Students” faculty research project, click here. Questions can be directed to urbanuw@uw.edu.

Unite UW application for spring quarter is open now! We would really appreciate your help to spread the word, so our students get to distress in spring while making some close friends. We are accepting graduate student applications too!  

A flyer is attached and here is a blurb you can forward:

Unite UW Spring 2018 application is open now! It is that time of the year to smell the tulips at Skagit Tulip Town, lie on the beach at Golden Gardens at our annual BBQ, and enjoy Seattle’s nature by hiking up Rattlesnake. Unite UW is great opportunity to find a tight-knit community with caring friends from diverse cultural backgrounds and rich life experiences. This quarterly program is complimentary and offers food plus 2-night retreat at Pack Forest and seeks to connect international students with US students for fun activities.

• Apply by March 14^th at: https://goo.gl/forms/LTyJwM5H6Q9nFERD2 (Spring schedule is included in this application form)
• Learn more at uw.edu

Hello, School of Social Work!

The UW-BASW Organization of Student Social Workers is looking to host several

events in the next few months. In order to help facilitate the upcoming

Game Night with ROOTS Youth Adult Shelter, a BBQ social, and the Senior

Send-off for the BASW program, we are auctioning off a $400 gift card to

Canlis restaurant! The earnings from the fundraiser will go toward buying

things like food, decorations and advertising for these events.

If you would like to help support OSSW and bid on a gift card to one of the

best restaurants in town, please click here!

https://tinyurl.com/OSSWauction1

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Contact: Kamaria Hightower, Mayor’s Office, kamaria.hightower@seattle.gov

City of Seattle Launches Community Input Survey to Kick Off Public Outreach for New Permanent Police Chief

Seattle (Feb 20) – To help select a permanent Chief of Police to lead the Seattle Police Department, the City of Seattle is kicking off public outreach by launching an online Community Input Survey to allow Seattle residents to provide their input during the search process. Seattle community members can visit http://www.seattle.gov/policechiefsearch to complete the survey. In the upcoming weeks, a series of community events and workshops will be announced to allow Seattle residents to share their thoughts in person on the personal characteristics and professional experience that are most important for the individual leading our police.

“The next police chief must be able to lead our rank and file and be committed to an accountable, diverse police department focused on meaningful and lasting reforms and building trust in the community they serve,” said Mayor Jenny Durkan.  “To find our next police chief, our Police Search Committee is committed to listening to all our residents, including those in communities that have the greatest distrust of police and the criminal justice system. The input and leadership from Seattle neighborhoods and communities is critical to helping recruit the right Chief, so I hope our residents will take this quick survey to ensure their voice heard.”

“The next police chief will be critical to the City’s ability to continue advancing critical public safety initiatives and police reforms, as well as, continuing to build trust with historically underrepresented and over-policed communities. Members of the Chief of Police Search Committee care deeply about the public safety and reform priorities of our community members. I strongly urge people from all backgrounds to complete this survey and tell us what you want to see in your next police chief,” said Council member M. Lorena González (Position 9, Citywide).

The 25 member Police Search Committee is comprised of a broad range of community leaders, including many with extensive and unique experience in criminal justice reform and policing. Led by four co-chairs, this diverse Search Committee is leading a national search process to find the best candidate for Seattle’s next police chief and is working with a national search firm, Public Sector Search & Consulting, to gather and screen applications. Following the community engagement process, the Police Search Committee will conduct interviews with applicants, the Search Committee will submit their recommendations to Mayor Durkan.

COP Community Survey Announcement (Word Document of this information)

UW students, staff, faculty – got 5 minutes for a survey about “green games”?

We are seeking responses from anyone in the UW community – students, staff, postdocs, and faculty at all three campuses – regardless of your gaming or environmental background. The survey takes just a few minutes to complete and is intended to evaluate interest in environmentally-themed games (“green games”) at UW. All respondents that complete the survey by Feb 28th can be entered into a drawing for one of five $25 gift cards (must provide a UW email address).

Link to survey: https://tinyurl.com/uwgreengamesurvey

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