Six weeks of drop-in meetings to address difficulties and challenges associated with adjusting to a quarter with remote learning. This drop-in space is a place where you can talk about grief, loss, frustration, loneliness, and coping strategies throughout this adjustment.

Time: Wednesdays, 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Start Date: 10/28
Location: Online
Who: All currently-registered UW Seattle students
Intake needed: No
Cost: Free
Facilitators: Tomomi Ito, LMHC and Yuxin Sun, PhD

To register: Email counsels@uw.edu and we will send you a Zoom link for the workshop when available.

You’re invited to our annual Lobby Day for Health Equity! 

Health Equity Circle brings 50+ students (from schools of public health, nursing, medicine, law, social work, and more) to Olympia to voice support for or against the passage of specific bills that are critical to health equity in Washington State

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to Health Equity Circle team at: hec.lobbyday@gmail.com

SIGN UP

Click this link to fill out a survey and sign up for Lobby Day 2020:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7XighqvHmOkHNDj-rgXeXI6vsdcWsqN2pZDjatgKT3MFRkw/viewform?usp=sf_link

* Signing up in by February 3rd will allow you to be able to participate in the bill selection process with the other participants! Vote on the issues that you want to bring to the Legislators

Spring 2019 Seminar Series Flyer

WCPC’s quarterly Seminar Series on Poverty and Public Policy brings nationally prominent poverty researchers to the university to present and discuss their findings with faculty and students. The seminars are open to the public and attract a range of faculty and students from disciplines across campus, as well as local service providers and engaged community members.

The seminar series is also available as a for-credit class (SOC WL 556) for graduate and outstanding undergraduate students at the University of Washington. Throughout the quarter, seminar students will meet and engage with other anti-poverty and inequality researchers, scholars, and students, and complete a career development assignment.

WCPC Seminar Series on Poverty and Public Policy

“A Mobility Framework for Economic Policy Agendas”

ELISABETH JACOBS

Center for Equitable Growth

Monday, April 1st
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
*Q&A until 2:00 pm

School of Social Work, Room 305A

Abstract: Intergenerational mobility is the technical concept at the heart of the American Dream. An individual’s place on the economic distribution is supposed to reflect individual effort and talent, not parental resources and privilege. Yet this perspective ignores the mounting evidence of the myriad ways that poverty and economic inequality foreclose equality of opportunity for far too many Americans now and in the future. This talk will explore how economic inequality could be impeding the development of human potential and the effective deployment of that human potential, and therefore depressing upward mobility, and offer up a framework for economic policymakers interested in advancing an evidence-backed agenda for accelerating both economic growth and economic mobility in America.

NARAL Pro-Choice Washington – Reproductive Freedom Fellow

NARAL Pro-Choice Washington is seeking a reproductive freedom fellow with a commitment to reproductive rights and justice. They will assist with our electoral work in the 2015 campaign cycle, in consumer advocacy projects and other organizational programs.

About NARAL Pro-Choice Washington:

NARAL Pro-Choice Washington is a fast-paced advocacy organization whose mission is to develop and sustain a constituency that uses the political process to guarantee every woman the right to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices, including preventing unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children, and choosing legal abortion. We work closely with policymakers, advocates, and our always expanding base of members.

Responsibilities:

• Consumer Advocacy and Research:
  • Research and compile background materials to support our emergency contraception access project and other consumer advocacy projects
  • Follow news sources to find content for social media
  • Draft content for NARAL Blog
  • Working with senior staff to fulfill research needs and goals, including assisting in rapid response efforts and for other duties as assigned

• Organizing Work:
  • Assist with volunteer recruitment for phone banks, doorbelling and other election related activities
  • Assist and prepare materials for phone banks, bird-dogging, and other election related activities
  • Help publicize election related volunteer activities through flyers, community calendars, social media and ally organizations
  • Attend community events and talk to supporters about NARAL’s work
  • Assist in maintaining an up to date volunteer and member database
  • Plan and recruit supporters for annual Feminist Training for Power organizing training held at the UW

Candidates should possess strong oral and written communication skills, solid organizational skills and attention to detail, and sound political instincts. Some technical savvy and comfort talking to people on the phone is needed. Fellows receive regular opportunities for training and informational interviews with staff and community leaders.

We are looking for individuals who can commit to at least 15 hours per week in September-December (start and end dates are negotiable). The schedule can be flexible, including evenings and weekends. Some applicants may be able to work primarily from the University of Washington campus.

 

Compensation: This is an unpaid internship with a $100 per month stipend to offset travel costs. We will work to secure credit for college credit if applicable.

To apply, send a cover letter and resume to Eileen Pollet at eileenpollet@prochoicewashington.org

AN EVENT FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

An International Student’s Path to Successfully Working in the U.S.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

5:30 pm to 7 pm

The Career Center, 134 Mary Gates Hall

The Career Center is excited to bring to campus American executive, Mark Wen to talk about his path from international student to Healthcare Executive with Seattle Children’s Hospital.

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Are you interested in learning more about the Affordable Care Act? Do you have questions about how insurance works, or how the ACA
impacts you or your family/friends? Or, do you want to engage more deeply in ACA work and help underserved populations access coverage?
If so, the ACA Access, Education, and Advocacy Team is here for you, and we have some exciting events coming up. Students of ALL
backgrounds are welcome!!

1) KICK-OFF EVENT: ACA BASICS
Monday, Nov. 24th from 5-7pm
Location: To be confirmed ASAP — a follow up email will be sent to those who RSVP!
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HSERV 552 – Health Policy Development

Autumn 2014

Monday/Wednesday, 10 :30 – 11 :50am, SCC 303

Prerequisites : Graduate students only

Course Description and Goals

Health Policy refers to decisions that guide organizational and individual behaviors affecting health and the financing, delivery, and use of health services.  Using contemporary health policy issues, we will examine how science and community values intertwine in health policy development, how context (e.g., ideology, culture, and history) influence the structure of and changes to a nation’s health system, and how international treaties and relationships can affect health and health services.  We will also discuss the important relationship between how a society measures success, its public policies, and how it allocates and distributes resources.

You will learn about health policy development in this class through a combination of methods, including case studies, problem based learning (PBL), small and large group discussions, group projects, role plays, and written and oral presentations … your learning will be largely through processes of self-discovery.  This course includes few traditional lectures.

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A large interdisciplinary panel regarding the Catholic hospital mergers occurring in WA state and how it will affect comprehensive, ethical health care. Please come join others and speak about this matter.   NARAL Pro-Choice WA, Compassion & Choice of WA, Legal Voice, ACLU of WA, and Planned Parenthood of the Great NW are all sponsoring this event.

Oct. 30, 2013, 7-9 PM, Town Hall Seattle 1119 8th Ave Flyer

Hello, Students, This online process through MyGrad replaces the old paper form for on-leave status.  Please note that you must maintain “on leave” status each quarter.

The new leave system is ready for use and the process is simple: Read more