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.

Hello SSW community!

ARWAG is back for the 2019-2020 school year! Weekly meetings this quarter
will be on Fridays from 12pm-1pm, starting October 18th in room 116.
Meeting locations may change from week to week, so make sure to subscribe
to the listserv by emailing sswarwag@uw.edu

*What is ARWAG?*Anti-Racist White Allyship Group (ARWAG) is an open group
at the School of Social Work for students, staff, and faculty of all
identities, and particularly those who benefit from white privilege. It is
a space for critical self-reflection, dialogue, accountable community,
opportunities for action, and deepening our commitment to racial and social
justice. For more detailed information, check out the group description
attached to this email.

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Apply now to join the Husky Experience Student Advisory Council

Help advance the Husky Seed Fund, an award that brings to life innovative ideas by students that are inclusive, impactful, and inventive to the UW.  Gain valuable experience advancing and managing a program that will impact thousands of students at UW.

What types of student-led efforts would improve the overall Husky Experience? What would inspire students to create such a project and apply for funding?  You be the judge!

The Provost’s Office will provide the funding, basic structure and guidance for HESAC members to lead and advance the Husky Seed Fund.  In work groups, members will:  gain program management, leadership, and financial management skills; help fellow Huskies by shaping how dollars impact their ideas; and receive coaching from Provost’s Office staff on how to include this experience on a resume, talk about it in person and apply lessons learned and skills gained going forward.

Apply here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/katyd2/378352
Deadline:   5:00 p.m., October 23, 2019 

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Dear graduate and professional students,

I hope your start to the quarter is going well!

For those of you interested in leadership, professional development, advocacy, or community, I am excited to share the following opportunity. The Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) represents over 15,000 graduate and professional students at the University of Washington. Senators are grad students who represent academic departments as well as non-academic programs and communities. GPSS hosts events and programming, provides opportunities for engagement through internal committees and university-wide liaison positions, and offers funding for academic and professional development. Lastly, they lobby at the state and federal level on behalf of the needs of UW graduate and professional students. To give you a sense of the level of commitment, the Senate meets 4-5 times per quarter with an attendance requirement of at least 3 meetings. They meet every other week at 5:30 on Wednesdays, which commits you to just 3 afternoons a quarter.

You’re invited! The UW School of Medicine’s Q Medicine group is celebrating National Coming Out Day next Friday October 11th from 1-1:30pm outside of T-435 in the health sciences building. We would love if you could spread the word about this event and please stop by!

The *UW Trans Resource Fair*, organized by the academic student union
(UAW4121.org) will be on 10/10 from 4-7pm in room 305 . There will be a
dozen community organizations, as well as a very brief presentation from
UAW’s recent equity survey results. Students, faculty, and staff of
all genders are welcome to attend. tiny.cc/TransUW2019

The *QT Fall Welcome Event *in the SSW will be *this Thursday* from 4-7pm in room 305. Join BASW, MSW, and PhD students, along with faculty and staff, to build community and show support for our queer and trans students. We will have snacks, a craft/coloring/puzzle table, and more. Stay tuned for future QT Group events, and reach out to Vern (vharner@uw.edu)
if you want to get more involved as an organizer.

 

UW’s Family Medicine Interest Group is kicking off National Primary Care Week with happy hour at Big Time Brewery!

Come join us for an interprofessional mixer on Monday October 7th from 5:45 to 8 pm. Big Time Brewery & Alehouse (4133 University Way) is about a 15 minute walk from the Health Science Building. We will be providing snacks but unfortunately cannot provide beverages.
FMIG Executive Committee

The Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) represents over 15,000 graduate and professional students at the University of Washington. Our Senators represent academic departments as well as non-academic programs and communities. GPSS hosts events and programming, provides opportunities for engagement through internal committees and university-wide liaison positions, and offers funding for academic and professional development.

Check out our upcoming resource fair, Halloween social & senate open house!

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I wanted to share an update on VIVA! for those interested. VIVA! works to amplify the voice, visibility and skills of Latino/a/x students at the School of Social Work. This initiative seeks to equip students and the School community to be responsive to the diverse strengths and needs of Latino communities.

We provide a space of support for the community of Latino/a/x Social Work Students across all cohorts. We would also like to extend an invitation to faculty and staff at the School of Social Work who identify with our group and the space it seeks to create, so I encourage you to participate in the Doodle polls below.

Please fill out this Doodle poll to indicate your availability for the first general meeting happening on the SECOND week of classes: https://doodle.com/poll/e3vrxghsi5prnc2a

*FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN TAKING ON A LEADERSHIP ROLE IN THE GROUP* Please fill this one out as well, this meeting will be held the FIRST week of classes. We hope to reserve leadership positions for students who are in their advanced year and/or last year of study: https://doodle.com/poll/36nmq9zuzwu5vpp4

Polls will be closing tomorrow evening (9/24), then we will out meeting dates and times.

Any questions or topics you would like to bring up to the leadership or general meeting, please email:

Lopezs6@uw.edu

Stephanie Lopez

SWAPI

SWAPI is a student led group offering support, mentorship and community building to Asian Pacific Islander identified BASW, MSW and PhD students. SWAPI has participation and support from API Faculty and Staff in the UW School of Social Work.

Please join us for monthly brown bag lunches in SSW Room 116 from 11:30am-1:00pm the first Fridays of the month (except January): 10/4/19, 11/1/19, 12/6/19, 1/10/20, 2/7/20, 3/6/20, 4/3/20, 5/1/20, 6/5/20.

If you plan to attend the brown bag lunch, please email saultran@uw.edu ASAP prior to the Friday brown bag so that we can adjust the room size if needed.

WANT MORE INFO? Join our listserv! Email Jennifer Brower: jjb2@uw.edu

SWAPI Flyer 2019-2020

Join the Core Programs International Graduate Student Advisory Board (IGSAB)!

– Are you an international graduate student working on your master’s or doctoral degree program?
– Do you have a passion for supporting other international graduate students?
– Are you interested in volunteering with Core Programs to help plan events?
– Do you want to gain more leadership opportunities by advocating for international graduate students?

*We are more than happy to accommodate students who can participate in the advisory board remotely (e.g. conference call or Skype).*

If yes to all, please consider joining the Core Programs International Graduate Student Advisory Board (IGSAB)! Your voice matters to us! Core Programs is dedicated to serving international graduate students through resource sharing and tailored professional development events. By working with you, our team will be able to better address the needs of international graduate students.

If you are interested, please fill out this Catalyst survey. We will contact you one to two weeks after you submit your survey responses. For general information, visit the UW International Graduate Students web page. Email questions or comments to Ziyan Bai.

Join the Core Programs First-Generation Graduate Student Advisory Board!

Were you in the first generation of your family to earn a bachelor’s degree and are now working towards a graduate degree? Would you like to develop your leadership, decision-making, advocacy or volunteer skills? Consider joining the Core Programs First-Generation Graduate Student Advisory Board and collaborate with peers to inform initiatives and events geared towards first-generation graduate students across the university. Students have the option of participating in meetings remotely via conference call or Skype.

Please fill out this Catalyst survey. You will receive a follow-up email within one to two weeks of submitting your responses.

Visit the UW First-Generation Graduate Students web page for general information. Email questions to Core Programs.

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