Finally Fridays Community Building Hour
Friday, Oct. 16, 4-5pm

The Community Hour is an interactive community-building virtual soiree hosted by the Graduate Student Advisory Board (GSAB). New and returning BIPOC graduate students are welcome to join us for a night of Zoom roulette, where students will rotate between breakout rooms with different hosts/themes. A space created by students, for students, this event is meant to promote connection and provide an authentic space for honest conversation.

We look forward to seeing your Zoom boxes on Friday, October 16th from 4:00 – 5:00 pm PST. Join Zoom Meeting: https://washington.zoom.us/j/97049468034

Questions? Email gomap@uw.edu

SSW student group QT (Queer/Trans) welcomes incoming and returning students and shares resources.

• Facebook group is for LGBTQ students here at UW SSW: facebook.com/groups/UWSSWQT
• The SSW has a page that lists some helpful resources-
  www.socialwork.uw.edu/trans-student-resources

The Anti-Racist White Allyship Group (also known as ARWAG) for the SSW this year is really looking forward to co-creating a space for anti-racist action, reflection, and learning in community that brings together work that’s been led by our peers.

Meeting time
Monday, October 5th at 6pm (zoom link here).
In order to make the meetings accessible to folks with different schedules while also maintaining consistency, we’d like to know what times work best for everyone to meet. Please complete this when2meet poll on behalf of your general weekly availability for fall quarter.

First Meeting
The first meeting will involve introductions, norms, an orientation to the group, community building, and a reflection and discussion based on this 60 minute lecture and interview with Ayishat Akanbi. There is a shorter version that will be shown during the meeting for those who aren’t able to watch the full interview.

Format

• We’ll plan to meet for one hour via zoom weekly (ideally the same time weekly, based on availabilities)
• The format will be inspired by the concept of praxis: “a process whereby one applies theory to practice, attempting to change a concrete situation based on that learning, and recreating theory based on that activity” (Suarez et al. 2008)
• Meetings will alternate between a focus on theory/learning and then reflection, with a highlighted action of the month that follows a basic theme (collaboratively decided by members)
• Theory focused weeks will have an education presentation from any members who are willing to share (no more than 15-30 mins) and time for discussion
• Reflection focused weeks may follow different formats such as journaling, art
• The hope is to allow members to be active contributors and allow folks to join at any time throughout the quarter/year and have an idea what to expect

The Colectiva de Latin American Social Workers at the School of Social Work, invites returning current students and incoming student cohorts, the opportunity to be added to their email list for meetings, events, and opportunities.

Applications for Intellectual House Student Lead and Student Assistant are live! If you are interested in becoming part of their team for the 2020-2021 academic year, follow the link below to be taken to the application. Applications are due on Monday, May 18th at 11:59 pm.

Student Assistant Application:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nYYl92uktFF5353Bv0tsPpEoW-0C-JBZ/view?usp=sharing

Student Lead Application:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gTG5pqiENDtU-2i4epCodRJIX3IsP3nF/view?usp=sharing

Social Work Asian and Pacific Islanders (SWAPI) group (for MSW, BASW, PhD Students, Faculty and Staff)

TALK STORY with UW SSW API Faculty and Staff

Friday, March 6, 11:30am-1:30pm in Room 116

Guest speakers Jennifer Maglalang (Director of Admissions) and Alice Ryan (part-time instructor, former OFE Faculty)

Jenn – https://socialwork.uw.edu/staff/jennifer-maglalang

Alice – https://socialwork.uw.edu/faculty/part-time-lecturers/alice-ryan

RSVP – https://forms.gle/rmEzUcLohD5GiTfU7 by March 5.

Remember to Save the Date for April and May SWAPI:

–          April 17, 2020

–          May 1, 2020

We are inviting students from all health sciences departments to share their writing and art in our upcoming Spring 2020 journal.

~~For previous editions of the journal and submission guidelines, please see our website:  https://www.capillariesjournal.com/

~~Submission Form (Deadline: Sun, April 26 @ 11:59 PM): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15RoF3pVqxcoUZDzrWFXUhIFmZUcbk6g3nDuJguZCXKk/edit

Please do not hesitate to reach out to us at cjuw@uw.edu. We look forward to your stories!

Fill out the link below if you are interested in a queer/trans winter hangout event! This could be used for networking, co-working, doing puzzles / board games, watching a movie, etc.

If that sounds like something you’d be interested in, please completed this poll by THIS THURSDAY to find a time that will work for the most people:  https://www.when2meet.com/?8767870-HvPiE  

Additionally, there has been a huge bag of makeup that has been donated from Thrive Causemetics, via Ingersoll Gender Center. This high quality vegan make-up is free for anyone who is trans, nonbinary, etc, or questioning/exploring their gender identity and present at the event!

The application for the 2020-21 Hotspotting team is open until February 12th, 2020.

Hotspotting is an inter-professional health focused team, meaning we are students from all different disciplines (pharmacy, social work, nursing, medicine, nutrition, dental) working together. Our goal is to work with people who have unmet health needs and are using the healthcare system for preventable reasons. We work together to identify goals from the patient along with other needs during the ~8 month participation from the patient in the program. Some examples of patient goals is education on disease and medication, assistance finding resources, care coordination, attending appointments, and home visits.

It is a unique opportunity to work with patients in health promotion/empowerment and develop relationships with other disciplines.

The application link is: https://forms.gle/YqcJRbinBeJBZLWF8

Please do not hesitate with any questions. My contact information is millih2@uw.edu.

Youth Programs Summer Job Fair – Save the Date or Sign up to Participate

Please join us for our 4th annual Youth Programs Summer Job Fair on Wednesday March 4!

This is a great opportunity for University of Washington youth programs and community-based organizations to participate in a targeted recruitment effort for Summer 2020.

Positions can be paid or volunteer and full- or part-time.

Event on March 4th 12:30-3:30pm (with setup & tear down: 12-4pm)

HUB Main Street (Seattle campus)

To participate, please register here by February 12, 2020 and we’ll follow up with details shortly.

The Brothers in Color RSO, which is a student organization started by students in the Brotherhood Initiative, (BI) has started back up for this quarter.

This organization was born out of the realization from BI students of the support and community they receive and how there are other students on campus who could benefit from that as well.

Winter Powwow Saturday the 25th. Grand entry is at 1pm and 6pm with a dinner break at 5pm

link for our facebook page!

Join us for inspiring conversations on local and global civic engagement with visiting student leaders from

Angola, Botswana, Mali, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe!

Date: Wednesday, January 22

Time: The discussions will be ongoing throughout the evening, so arrive any time between 5:30-7:30pm to join the conversation and meet the students!

Location: Odegaard Library, Room 220

Refreshments will be served.

RSVP: https://roundtable-winter-2020.eventbrite.com

This event is free and open to the public. Please share with students and others who might be interested!

Meet participants in the FIUTS Study of the U.S. Institute on Civic Engagement! Engage in conversations to learn about their successes, hopes, and challenges as they create initiatives to improve their home communities, and share your own experiences and ideas for resources that would be useful or inspiring to them.

We will be kicking off our first Environmental Justice group meeting on Thursday, January 23 from 2:30-3:30pm in the Research Commons 2/3 (2^nd Floor). This meeting is open to all SSW students, faculty and staff who are interested.

Please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/LzP1pHZyDiRUJJmE8

Some topics we may cover (depending on people’s areas of interest):

• What is EJ?
• Policy work around EJ – local, state, federal – Green New Deal
• Zero waste movement
• Ways to get involved in the community

What is EJ: https://www.nrdc.org/stories/environmental-justice-movement

https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice

Dates: 1/14, 1/28, 2/11, 2/25, 3/10

Time: 3:30-5pm

Location: ECC (Resource Room – 2nd floor)

For questions about the Womxn of Color Healing Circle, contact:
Andrea Salazar-Nuñez, Ph.D.
Licensed Staff Psychologist
University of Washington Counseling Center
Phone: 206-543-1240
salazar6@uw.edu

Criteria for referral:

1. Self-identifies as a womxn
2. Identifies as a BIPOC (ex. Latinx, African American/Black, Filipino/Pacific Islander/South East Asian, Native or Indigenous)

Good fit:

-Someone looking for community

-Someone needing to connect with other WOC

-Need a validating space that doesn’t require code switching

-Is feeling disconnected from the campus community

-Feels like people don’t understand them

-Experienced a specific sexist/racist/oppressive event that they need to process

-Wants a self-care activity that addresses their identity as a WOC

 

Description of the group:
The healing circle will support healing, understanding, learning from each other’s shared common experiences, identifying personal issues which help us to understand and grow while building community amongst each other. This group is for those who are seeking a decolonized, therapeutic, and healing space.

The Womxn of Color Healing Circle is a great way for any self-identified Black and Brown women to connect and heal. The circle is based on indigenous and traditional therapy practices but most importantly its a safe space for women to heal, build community, and tap into their resilience. Leticia Nieto, a psychologist and author in Olympia describes spaces like this as “target only space” and these spaces are critical for healing and resisting oppression. She describes “Target” identities as those identities holding less power and “Agent” identities are the identities holding more power. When we are in “target only” spaces we can bring our whole selves and not have to use energy to code switch, contend with racial fatigue, or microaggressions. It can be re-energizing and incredibly powerful when those of us with target identities can come together and intentionally utilize “target only spaces” as a means of healing and self-care. It can help not only resist but begin to liberate and undo the negative effects of oppression.

 

The Health Sciences Service Learning and Advocacy Committee (HSSLA) has an opening for a student representative from the School of Social Work.

This committee provides guidance and support for interprofessional community engagement projects like the Health Sciences Mobile Health Outreach Van, the Common Book Series, the Seattle King County Clinic Listening Project, etc.  Members work closely with CHSIE (Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education).

Please take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to learn more about the world of interprofessional service learning and advocacy!  See below for information on how to apply.  Questions, contact Leonora Clarke, clarkel@uw.edu.

Applications are due November 1st!

Meetings take place on the second Thursday of each month from 11:30am -12:30pm.

Student responsibilities:

• Attend at least 80% of the meetings (during the academic year).  Conference capabilities are available for each meeting. Flexibility will be granted for students whose schedules conflict with the meeting time.
• Act as a communication liaison with students in your school by providing updates on interprofessional community engagement opportunities.
• Provide updates at HSSLA meetings on school specific upcoming events.
• There are also opportunities to serve on a HSSLA working group such as the Common Book or the HS Mobile Health Van subcommittee.

Benefits of serving as a HSSLA student representative:

• Make your voice heard in policy development around service learning. Impact the ability for you and your classmates (and future classmates) to participate in community-based activities and projects.
• Build relationships with UW faculty members committed to ethical community engagement practices.
• Gain valuable skills related to community engagement, program development and implementation of service experiences.

Students will be selected for a one-year term.  To apply, send the following information to Leonora Clarke, clarkel@uw.edu.

• Name
• Year
• A brief statement about why you would like to serve on the committee.

Students will be notified on November 8th and invited to the November 14th HSSLA meeting.

Do you care about issues of body liberation, size/weight diversity, eating disorders, fat acceptance, and body image?

UW SWAG (Sizeism, Weightism Advocacy Group) is a group that believes in supporting size diversity and body respect for all. We work at integrating an understanding of size and weight discrimination into an intersectional understanding of social justice issues. We typically plan events based around sizeism advocacy, body-positive community building, eating disorder recovery and awareness, and body image exploration. If you are interested in any of these issues, please feel free to come and check out the group.

For our first meeting of the year, we will meet Friday November 1 at 2:30pm-4:00pm in Room 306 at the UW School of Social Work. At the meeting, we will get to know each other at bit, and discuss what we would like to do as a group this year. Please come and bring your ideas! Also, feel free to contact me directly with any questions about the group, or if you are not able to attend, but would like to get connected with other folks.

We hope you are doing well. Our first Transracial Adoptee Group meet up for 2019-2020 will be on Friday, November 8, 2019 from 2:30-3:30pm at the School of Social Work Room 116.

TAG is open to anyone (student, staff, faculty) within the School of Social Work community who identifies as a transracial adoptee. Please join us to meet each other and start to plan activities for this year.

Light refreshments will be provided. Please notify us ASAP if you have any need for accommodations and/or food allergies.

If you have any questions, concerns, and/or comments, please contact Beth Van Fossan (bethvf@uw.edu) or myself. TAG Faculty members are Michelle Bagshaw, Jennifer Brower, Beth Van Fossan, and Saul Tran Cornwall.

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