Hope folx are hanging in there as we get close to the end of the quarter (and year!). Huge thanks to everyone for participating in the t-shirt design process. Organization of Student Social Workers (OSSW) have selected 5 designs for everyone to vote on. We would have t-shirt, hoodie, long sleeve options and the color would range from grey, black and white.

More info would be in the voting poll which you can access here: https://goo.gl/forms/jYu7s2tBimFmV9nJ3

We’re excited to finalize the design for this year and thanks for voting!

As you may have heard, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in passing the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This is an historic achievement, and in this hostile political climate, we must take time to celebrate our progress toward a nuclear-free world.

ICAN’s victory is everyone’s victory. So please join us on December 10th, the same day the Nobel Peace Prize is presented in Norway, for WE CAN: Ban the Bomb.

Leif Erikson Lodge, 2245 NW 57th St, Seattle, WA 98107

Sunday, December 10th. Doors at 6pm, Program 6:30-8:30pm

RSVP HERE  The event is free and open to the public, but we recommend you RSVP!

We’ll have food and drinks, music from the Seattle Peace Chorus and Marcia Takamura, and remarks from local leaders including Bruce Amundson, President of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility; Michael Ramos, Executive Director of the Church Council of Greater Seattle, Kim Nesselquist, Consul of Norway, and Stan Shikuma, with Seattle Kokon Taiko.

Questions to Lilly Adams at lilly@wpsr.org

Just a reminder that The Organization of Student Social Workers (OSSW), is in the process of creating new t-shirts for the 2017-2018 year, and would

love to see your designs. The winner will get a $15 gift card, as well as a free t-shirt. Please submit these designs in PDF form (while retaining your

original file) no later than Wednesday, November 15th to https://catalyst.uw.edu/collectit/dropbox/cmk35/41127.

The only requirements for the design is that it mentions School of Social Work somewhere (Due to copyright, we can’t actually use the official logo). Some examples from previous designs can be viewed here

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and here http://i63.tinypic.com/23mmy6o.png.

Feel free to contact ossw@uw.edu if you have any questions.

Register here

Please save the date for our upcoming Health Sciences Common Book Advocacy Event on November 9^th featuring Brady Walkinshaw, former WA state legislator and Editor of GRIST magazine.  For more information, go to facebook.com/uwhscommonbook.

Helping people, changing lives. Become a mentor today! 
Middle school is a tough time for youth. This time of transition is filled with multiple changes, increased responsibility, increased peer pressure, lack of motivation and puberty. This is also when youth are building their self-esteem and their confidence. Many students are going through these changes alone, as they aren’t trusting their parents/guardians with as much, yet this is when they love friends and need the most authentic support.Here is where you step in. As a volunteer mentor, you are that friend and support system. Through spending time together, having fun and enjoying each other, your student will become more confident and comfortable in their own skin. Our youth will also be exposed to your life and experiences, which many times are different than those in their home life. As a mentor, you will spend time with your youth twice a month. Even if you are busy, if you have a free 4 hours a month, you can make a difference.

A key part of our program is building a community for our youth, so along with the one-on-one time spent with you, everyone attends monthly program sponsored outings. While these outings seem just to be fun outings, they have a large learning component, such as discussions about body image, bullying, communication, and other topics that middle school youth are experiencing. These outings are scheduled once a month, and vary in location and day to give variety to the group and scheduling.

 
If you think back to your middle school experience, how would you have benefited from a mentor? Sign up for more information and you could give a middle school youth the love, support, and friendship they need.

For more information, contact Julia at 206-819-6416 or at jmhodges@empowermentoring.org, or see www.empowermentoring.org

Thanks

Julia Hodges
Executive Director
Empower Mentoring Program

We are seeking volunteers to facilitate therapeutic poetry with people who have suffered childhood traumas, such as abuse, neglect, or exposure to violence. The volunteers will work on one of our teams that meets weekly during the school year, inside juvenile detention, the state psychiatric hospital for children, or a residence for adults with lived experience of homelessness and substance use.

http://www.pongoteenwriting.org/volunteer.html

We are hoping to fill a half-time, paid position for a Program Manager to help me oversee the projects. This person will have clinical training (such as training in social work or family counseling), have experience with at-risk populations, and also have a strong interest in creative writing, especially poetry. We’re looking for a mature individual who can guide our trauma-informed work with vulnerable populations inside sensitive institutions.

http://www.pongoteenwriting.org/Open-Positions.html

Best Wishes!

Richard, pongo_publishing@hotmail.com

www.pongoteenwriting.org

Join LGBTQ Allyship’s Housing Leadership Institute!!

Are you someone who is passionate about any of the following LGBTQ housing justice issues?

• Gentrification and displacement
• Senior housing
• Youth homelessness
• Affordable and community-owned housing
• Housing discrimination

At Allyship, we believe everyone deserves to access a safe place, space, and community that feels like home! Housing justice is an essential piece of creating a sense of home – and we know that for too many in our communities, there are real barriers to having the basic things we need to survive, live with dignity, and thrive. We can do better, which means we need to get more LGBTQ people who’ve been directly impacted by unaffordable housing, displacement, homelessness, and discrimination to inform the next generation of policies, practices, and organizing approaches that will make the communities we’re part of safer and more livable!

If you are a person who is passionate about LGBTQ housing justice, we hope you’ll sign up to join our LGBTQ Housing Leadership Institute!   

What You’ll Learn: LGBTQ Allyship believes that in order to build strong communities we must have strong leaders. Through this institute, a cohort of 15 people will be trained in the following:

• Civic engagement skills
• Anti-Oppression Values
• Allyship’s Theory of Change

You will:

• Learn from housing experts from city and state government and from organizations doing the work at ground level.
• Gain technical skills
• Become familiar with public speaking, story sharing in all forms of media, event planning, story-collecting for advocacy, advocacy skills community-led resource gathering, mobilization, community organizing skills and an analysis around the connection between racism, classism, sexism, adultism and ageism.

Sign up today!

Who We Are Looking for:

1. 10 to 15 LGBTQ grassroot progressive advocates/activists
2. Ages 18 and up welcome, affected by housing instability (candidates under age 18 will be considered on a case by case basis!)
3. A commitment of (6) 5-hour training dates plus a 3-hour orientation
4. Ability to volunteer 5 to 7 hours a month
5. Ability to attend all trainings, planning meetings and social Gatherings (some exceptions allowed)
6. An open mind and a willingness to learn to be a better ally, advocate for LGBTQ youth and elders issues and approach work from an intersectional lens

History & Funding
This is our 3rd Leadership Institute, and we are able to offer this training for free due to individual donors, and private grants from the Pride Foundation and Communities of Opportunites.

Interested?

Sign up or email Kelsen Caldwell at kelsen@allyship.org

LGBTQAllyship.org
https://www.facebook.com/LGBTQAllyship
https://twitter.com/Allyship

Thank you, Verity Credit Union, for hosting our Leadership Institute Orientation this year!

Sámi Role in Arctic Affairs: Politics, Research and Activism
20 June 2017 | 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. | UW Club, Yukon Room
 University of Washington
Space is limited – registration required
Clock hours available to K- 12 Teachers upon request. 
A light breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided

Since the 1970’s the global Indigenous movement, building on the human rights movement, has gained considerable momentum. In 2000, the United Nations founded the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues as the central coordinating body for matters related to Indigenous peoples; in 2007, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was ratified establishing international legal norms. Indigenous peoples are now playing a significant role in influencing international affairs via new transnational networks. The Sámi are a model for such influence.

Join us on June 20th for this one-day conference. Most of the presenters are Sámi themselves, working with aspects on reclaiming Sámi identities and the struggle for the Sámi right to survival and well-being. Scholars and activists will present their work followed by an open discussion with all participants and guests. We will end the day with dinner and a discussion of future directions for Sámi studies and collaborations followed by a screening of “Sámi Blood“.

Special Guest Speakers: 

Lis-Mari Hjortfors |  Umeå University, Sámi Studies, Department of Language Studies
Margaretha Uttjek | Department of Social Work, Umeå University, Sweden
May-Britt Öhman |  Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University; the Association of Sámi Related Research in Uppsala; Deputy Member of the Swedish Sámi Parliament; member of Technoscience Research Group
Inge Frisk | Stockholm Sámi Association, member of Technoscience Research Group, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University
Astri Dankertsen | Nord University, Norway
Troy Storfjell | Scandinavian Area Studies Program, Department of Languages and Literatures, Pacific Lutheran University
Karin Eriksson | Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington

This event is sponsored by the International Policy Institute (funded by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York) and Arctic and the International Relations initiative, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; the Canadian Studies Center, Center for West European Studies, and Center for Global Studies; UW’s Scandinavian Studies; and UW’s Future of Ice initiative.

To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at:  206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu.

The PhD Social Justice Committee together with the SSW Equity Council are excited to bring together prominent local leaders within public institutions in Seattle to engage the UW SSW community in vibrant conversations as they share insights about institutional challenges to social change, equity tools and resources, and implementation success stories.  Lunch will be provided if you RSVP below.

The Panel will be on Friday, May 25^th from noon-1:30pm in room 305.

Our final confirmed list of panelists include:

Lamont Green
City of Seattle Race & Social Justice Initiative

Matias Valenzuela
King County Office of Equity & Social Justice

Dr. Concepcion Pedroza
Seattle Public Schools
Race & Equity Team Leader

Chadwick Allen
Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
Co-Chair of UW Diversity Council

We hope that you can join in a lively discussion regarding both local and university efforts to promote equity and assess and implement change within public institutions and the larger community.   Please RSVP at this link where dietary requests and questions for our panelists can be added: https://docs.google.com/a/uw.edu/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLDbYTO-oxynPh2rV9IPZCFZPrSa8hzVkyTVSlqFxzlk9Rnw/viewform?c=0&w=1

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1522012677870682/

Please direct questions to Jessica Ulrich jullrich@uw.edu or Shannon Blajeski blajes@uw.edu.

See you on the 25th!

Dear SSW Students, Faculty and Staff,

You are invited to join a workshop on Washington State’s “Rapid Response” tools to support immigrant rights. This WA Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISM) info session will be held at the UW School of Social Work, Thursday, May 25, 4:30 – 6:00pm, Room 305A/B (third floor).

This session Rapid Response & Support Networks for Immigrant Rights will be led by Jorge Baron of Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and WAISN members

Please RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/hxdRXMhV9VN0Z1aM2

The ​WA Immigrant Solidarity Network​ is a rapidly forming coalition of immigrant and refugee rights organizations, ally groups and individuals, demanding justice, value and acceptance of immigrants and refugees in the Evergreen State, and across the world.

Organizations across the state have joined the network to collaborate on these efforts. The network has established a hotline to report immigration enforcement activity in Washington state: 1-844-RAID-REP (1-844-724-3737)

The hotline is one of the many rapid response tools that the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network is developing. Come discuss how students, service providers and community organizers can support rapid response and solidarity efforts in Washington State.

Sponsored by UW School of Social Work, co-sponsored by the UW Department of History and UW Center for Human Rights

To join the network: https://www.facebook.com/WAimmigrantsolidaritynetwork/

Our student-led team from the School of Public Health, in conjunction with Hall Health, is collecting information about student health care and health insurance at the University of Washington, Seattle Campus. It is integral that we receive enough responses to make the survey relevant as the results have the potential to inform policy-making decisions in the future. Having as many students respond as possible increases our chances of compiling representative data about students at UW and your needs in relation to health insurance. Please note that this survey and any information derived from it is not representative of the University of Washington administration.

Answers will remain anonymous and confidential. At the end of the survey, everyone will have a chance to provide their email address to be entered to win from multiple drawings. We will be raffling off a $100 Amazon Gift Card (x1), $50 Amazon Gift Cards (x4), and $20 UW Bookstore Gift Cards (x2). Email address and survey data will not be connected.

To access the survey, please follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/studenthealthsurvey2017

The survey will run until the end of the month. Winners of the raffle prizes will be drawn at the end of the month, once the survey has closed.

Please let us know if you have any questions. We can be reached at student.health2017@gmail.com.

My name is Amanda Glass, and I am a 2^nd year MSW Student at UW Tacoma. I am writing to you to request your participation in a brief online survey regarding young adults’ experiences of externalizing problems, such as aggression, substance use, and attention problems. The survey should take about 20 minutes to complete. All people aged 18-25, and especially those with a parent who has experienced a mental illness, are encouraged to participate. This project is a requirement for the University of Washington, Tacoma MSW Program. At the beginning of the survey is an informed consent form containing information about the survey. Your participation in this survey is completely voluntary and all of your responses will be anonymous.

• https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/glassa3/329159

ATTENTION GRADUATING MSW STUDENTS

AN OPPORTUNITY PRESENTED BY

WASHINGTON STATE SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK

OUTSTANDING STUDENT PAPER AWARD

A part of our mission is to support and promote high standards of practice for those entering the profession.

To this end we offer the Outstanding Student Paper Award to Washington State masters level social work students in their graduating year.

To the strongest paper submitted we are offering a Grand Prize of $400 plus a 1 year membership to WSSCSW and 1 year free entry to all Professional Development events. For the runner up prize we are offering $200, plus a 1 year membership to WSSCSW and 1 year free entry to all Professional Development events. Both winners will be mentioned in the WSSCSW newsletter and annual dinner meeting and recognition event.

Entries must be clinical practice papers that contain both clinical case materials and discussion of theory that applies to the understanding and treatment of the case presented.  The paper or project must be presented in an integrated, cogent way that shows the practical application of theoretical ideas as well as a reflection of clear understanding of how cultural issues are reflected in the treatment approach.  Your paper or project can (and probably should) be a paper or project you wrote for a class.

Writing should be clearly and professionally written, well organized and demonstrate appropriate grammar, syntax, etc.  Paper should be in double-spaced 12 point font, no more than 10 pages long and must conform to APA formatting standards.

Entries must contain a 1-page cover page detailing ‘Why I Want to Be a Clinical Social Worker.”

Entries must be received via email by May 10, 2017

Please submitted to: admin@WSSCSW.org

The Health Sciences Service Learning and Advocacy Group is in the process of choosing next year’s common book. We would like to invite you to submit a nomination for a book title that you see fit in this program.

Submissions can be entered into this catalyst survey before April 13^th: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/davidfer/326730.

Background:

Each year, the Health Sciences Service Learning and Advocacy Group selects a common book that engages students from across the health sciences schools in substantive, interprofessional dialogue about pressing topics related to health equity and social justice. Students, staff, and faculty who participate in this series will be able to:

• Develop awareness about how personal and institutionalized bias against marginalized communities manifests in health care and social work settings.
• Understand and contextualize present-day crises related to issues of marginalized communities, especially as a as result, and continuation of, a history of colonization and racism.
• Imagine what it would take to create systems and institutions that ensure all people have access to a place they comfortably call home.
• Cultivate consciousness and skill-building regarding the roles and responsibilities of (future) health professionals to challenge structural policies and systems that create unequal health outcomes on the basis of categories such as race, gender, class, veteran’s status, drug user and other social identifiers.

Criteria to consider:

• Interprofessional relevancy
• Cost of Author Visit and whether they are local
• Length of book
• Cost of book
• Connection to social justice and health equity
• Timeliness of topic (and would funding potentially come from other sources to bring author)
• Are there ties with local organizations, groups, history
• Genre
• Readability

Process for Book Selection

• Nominations accepted via Catalyst survey; survey disseminated across the health sciences
• Common Book Subcommittee meets and Yes/Maybe/Nos the list based upon the above criteria.
• Common Book Subcommittee revises and shortens list, fills in missing information.
• Health Sciences Service Learning group reviews list and narrows down to top 3-5.
• Common Book Subcommittee reconvenes and selects book.

Past Common Books:

• 2013-2014: In the Realm of Hungry Ghostsby Gabor Mate
• 2014-2015: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodiesby Seth Holmes
• 2015-2016: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• 2016-2017: Catching Homelessness by Josephine Ensign

Thank you,

Common Book Subcommittee

Health Sciences Service Learning and Advocacy”

“The QSC is working to revive Dear Queer, a LGBTQ question-and-answer based blog, and we need writers. We need people to answer possible questions and make blog posts as they see fit. If you are interested, please fill out this google doc: https://goo.gl/forms/PNAsDZzHj0B90ejw2

If you don’t want to write, you can still check out our blog at dearqueeruw.tumblr.com Hope to see you on there! Feel free to share with friends and get the word out there!”

Save the Date: On February 22nd, stop by the Q Center and wish us a happy 13th birthday! It wouldn’t be a party without CAKE, so we’ve got free Cupcake Royale for the first 100 guests between 11AM – 1PM!

Tuesday Film Series at The Grand Cinema Tacoma

LOVE & SOLIDARITY: Rev. James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Worker’s Rights

Tuesday, February 7, 2017 • 6:45 pm • Free Admission

LOVE & SOLIDARITY is an exploration of nonviolence and organizing through the life and teachings of Rev. James Lawson. Lawson provided crucial strategic guidance while working with Martin Luther King, Jr., in southern freedom struggles and the Memphis sanitation strike of 1968. Moving to Los Angeles in 1974, Lawson continued his nonviolence organizing in multi-racial community and worker coalitions that have helped to remake the LA labor movement. Through interviews and historical documents, acclaimed labor and civil rights historian Michael Honey and award-winning filmmaker Errol Webber put Lawson’s discourse on nonviolent direct action on the front burner of today’s struggles against economic inequality, racism and violence, and for human rights, peace, and economic justice.

There will be a 15 minute film introduction and a 30 minute post-film discussion with director Michael Honey.

Presented in partnership with Center for the Study of Community and Society at UW Tacoma, UWT Black Student Union, Meaningful Movies Tacoma, and Immanuel Presbyterian Church Tacoma.

For more information and a short preview: http://www.grandcinema.com/films/love-solidarity/

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