Hello students,

I am from Health & Wellness and along with Patricia Atwater in Hall Health, we would like to provide an opportunity for students who are doing work in the areas of health, well-being, safety and social justice to get together. The purpose of the meeting is to get to know each other, hear about events and programs that are planned throughout the year and find ways to collaborate. Our proposed agenda is:

1. Introduction and a UW student leader perspective
2. Speed meeting activity
3. Student Well-Being Collaborative overview
4. Mapping the events and programs throughout the year
5. Time to connect and collaborate
6. Decide how this group can be helpful going forward

Let us know if you have any thoughts, comments, questions and please fill out this doodle to get the meeting scheduled by the end of the quarter. Food will be provided!

We look forward to meeting you all and working together this year.

Talk soon,

Melissa

Melissa Tumas, MPH

Training and Education Coordinator

Health & Wellness | Student Life

University of Washington

109 Elm Hall | Box 355600

206.221.7187

www.livewell.uw.edu

We are coordinating a group of graduate students who are either disabled or who incorporate disability studies in our work. Our first meeting is next Thursday, 10/12 at 5 in the D Center located in Mary Gates 024. THERE WILL BE SNACKS! Here is a Doodle for choosing your best days of the week for future meetings: http://doodle.com/poll/4dpbpbd49nhkxb6h

Also, while we love our faculty mentors, this group is meant for grad students to share and mentor each other. A future aim of the group is to work with other disability studies-oriented orgs on campus like the ds department and d center to bring more research-focused events to campus. We would certainly open these types of events up, so stay tuned! However, everyone, regardless of status, please do pass this announcement along to your friends. If someone who is not a grad student is interested, have them email me; for example, some post docs and undergrads doing research might be a great fit.

Contact Cynthia “Cindy” L. Bennett at bennec3@cs.washington.edu for more information.

Dear Health Sciences Student Community,

Welcome new and returning students!  We would like to introduce everyone to the Health Equity Circle, a collective of health sciences students organizing around social justice issues pertaining to the health of our communities around Seattle and beyond.  We believe that our obligations as healthcare providers extend beyond the traditional American medical model, and that we must understand and address the social contexts of our patients as part of holistic patient care.  You are all invited to our first social, on October 3, 2016, from 5:30 – 6:30 pm, South Campus Center, room 224. Come hang out with us and talk about the things you care about!

Please RSVP here (https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/brqbj) if you plan on coming! Food will be provided!!!

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.

This is your invitation to be a part of starting a Registered Student Organization (RSO) for Autistic students at University of Washington *Group name TBD*

Zack Siddeek, MSW candidate at UW School of Social Work and Paige Hulsey, undergraduate senior in the School of Public Health have begun work to create an RSO for us autistic students. We now need your participation and support! Email us if you are interested.

Please join us for an RSO planning session. We will work on our group constitution and choose a name for the group. Please complete this doodle poll to relay your availability: http://doodle.com/poll/vgkwnh73kyssthyx

Often, autism groups are geared toward families of diagnosed children or therapies and techniques to enable us to blend in. These things will not be the focus here. This group is a place to call our own. We have ideas about a two-pronged group. One arm to serve as a caucus for those of us on the autism spectrum (autism, ASD, Asperger’s, PDD-NOS, sensory processing, self-diagnosis, or similar). The other arm to also include spectrum kin and allies for activism efforts. Please join us!

Thank you and we look forward to coming together,

Zack Siddeek zsiddeek@uw.edu and Paige Hulsey phulsey@uw.edu

The Graduate & Professional Student Senate has just opened the application for officer elections. We have 5 open positions and each position comes with a TUITION WAIVER & STIPEND!

It’s a great opportunity for students to get involved in student government, network with various departments and administrators, and make an impact here at UW.

There are a few requirements in addition to the application to run for an open position:

1. You must be an enrolled UW Graduate student
2. You must attend at least 3 GPSS meetings before the May 17th election (upcoming meetings listed in the elections guide) within the 2016-2017 academic year.

If students have any questions, they can take a look at our website: www.gpss.uw.edu to get more information.

Dear UW community,

We are second-year graduate students in the UW’s Community-Oriented Public Health Practice program. As part of our Evaluation course, we are evaluating Tent City 3’s stay on our campus during winter quarter.

We seek the views of UW students, faculty and staff about how well the TC3 stay went. Please complete this short questionnaire. It should take 5-10 minutes of your time and your responses will remain anonymous. Your responses will contribute greatly to the power and strength of our evaluation!

Gratefully,
Hena Parveen
Kira McCoy
Khanh Ho

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!

MESSAGE FROM DIANE NARASAKI AND TONY LEE KING COUNTY ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER COALITION (APIC) CO-CHAIRS

Hello everyone.  We are writing to warmly invite you to the February 8, Wednesday evening community briefing at ACRS.  We will begin with a reception with some light food and beverages at 5:30pm.  The program will follow, 6pm – 8pm, though we may begin earlier than 6pm, if enough people have arrived.

There will be two important topics covered.  The first is Asian Pacific American Legislative Day and the issues in our legislative agenda.  We will reserve 30 minutes to cover our proposed agenda to bring to our Governor and state legislators and hear your feedback.

Most of the time will be reserved for the second topic, President Trump’s Executive Orders and actions that attack the rights of immigrants, refugees, and Muslims.  Jorge Baron, Executive Director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP), an attorney with legal expertise and insights on these, will share information and analyses of how community members will be affected and steps people should take to keep as safe as possible.  Jorge and NWIRP rushed to SeaTac airport this weekend when the recent Muslim ban went into effect, and played a key role in preventing Muslims who would have been sent back immediately to the countries from which they came without NWIRP and colleagues’ intervention.

As you know, our very diverse community includes both documented and undocumented immigrants, as well as refugees and citizens.  Immigrants, as well as refugees, will be affected by recent Executive Orders.  The entire refugee program is currently affected.  Undocumented immigrants are now in greater danger.  We may also soon hear an Executive Order relating to access to publicly funded services for immigrants and refugees as well as an expansion of the list of countries which will be affected by the Executive Orders.

We encourage you to come, and if you have staff or community leaders or members who are concerned about these issues, to bring them too.  Please be sure to RSVP to Stephanie Riedl at stephanier@acrs.org by 2/7, the day before, if possible, if you plan to come and how many people you will bring so she can arrange for proper seating and enough food.

Thanks and hope to see you on February 8 evening!

The 2017 School of Social Work Graduation is Thursday, June 8^th at Alaska Airlines (formerly Hec Ed) Pavilion.

This year’s School of Social Work graduation celebration will provide opportunities for each graduating cohort (i.e. MSW EDP + MSW DAY + BASW + PhD) to offer a 3-5 minute presentation. This presentation by each cohort takes place during the graduation ceremony in Alaska Airlines Pavilion just before you arise as a group to ascend the stage to accept your diplomas from the Dean.

The committee may select one of the following for the presentation on Thursday, June 8^th:

–          A video

–          A performance

–          Speaker(s)

To begin planning, I am requesting that interested members of your cohort meet with me to discuss your ideas for this presentation. The product of this presentation is completely dependent upon the interests of your planning group.

We are starting this process earlier this year so planners will have enough time to brainstorm, consult, and produce!  If you have ideas, please get involved now!  We’ll talk about options and resources.  I will not be directing anything – rather, my role is to support you and your classmates in this process in any way I can.  Please know that those who step forward will be making decisions about the presentation – and we will let you know who your representatives are.

Please email Bilen Million at bilenm@uw.edu if you’d like to be a part of the committee or if you have any questions!

Want to DO something?

The SSW Student Advisory Council has set up a facebook page called: SOCIAL JUSTICE: Support and Action

Join us at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/711790235645857/

What is it?

A place for all UW-SSW students and other community members to share local events/actions and share resources that help mobilize us to get involved to make change for social justice! So many great resources are shared in individual cohort facebook pages, but this is a place to reach other cohorts and community members.

Please join and share:
* Action steps we can take to interrupt bias and promote social justice in the University of Washington and our surrounding communities
* Resources which support those in our community experiencing oppression, harassment and fear (lots of resources in the “Files” section)
* Activities and Events planned/sponsored by SSW community members promoting social justice
* Local and national events and actions in which we can participate to promote social justice
* Links to other local and national groups working on social justice issues (again, check “Files”)

Sponsored, in part, by the SSW Student Advisory Council:

GO-MAP Real Talk Tuesdays
Tuesday, November 8, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Center for Communication, Difference and Equity (across from CMU 126), UW Seattle
RSVP if you would like lunch

A safe space for graduate students of color to discuss campus, regional and national issues impacting people of color: the frustration of being the only person of color in your graduate school classes; the injustice of our criminal justice system; the latest controversy sparked by Kanye and Kim. Get real about any and all of it with your fellow graduate students of color at Real Talk Tuesdays.

Student Bystander Training – This full-day training enhances students’ skills in being an active bystander and campus leader in preventing interpersonal violence on campus. We will examine dynamics of violence, barriers to intervening, and explore creative solutions for interrupting violence. Participants will gain confidence in their skills and enhance their understanding of solutions to intervene in situations in ways that feel safe and comfortable. Food, t-shirt and certificate provided upon completion.

Saturday Nov. 5th 10:00am- 4:00pm, Maple 218

Sign up:  https://greendot.typeform.com/to/BuVwwk

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New to Green Dot? The aim of UW Green Dot is to prevent and reduce power-based violence at UW by engaging students, faculty, and staff as active bystanders who step in, speak up, and interrupt potential acts of violence. The Green Dot movement is about gaining a critical mass of the UW community, who are willing to do their small part to actively and visibly reduce power-based personal violence at UW. The program is based out of the UW office of Health and Wellness, SafeCampus, and other campus departments. Learn more about UW GreenDot at http://depts.washington.edu/livewell/green-dot/

 

Thank you!

Green Dot Committee

Hello QSC and Q Center,

My name is Mitchell Chen and I’m the Director of Diversity Efforts with the student government here at UW.  We’re partnering with Hall Health and other health-related entities on campus to conduct a Student Health Priorities Survey.  We wanted to gauge how underrepresented and marginalized students felt about health services on campus and get feedback on how to improve.  The survey will guide Hall Health, the Counseling Center, and other entities on future strategic plans.

 

If you could distribute this anonymous survey to your students, I would really appreciate it!  The link can be found here: tinyurl.com/UWStudentHealth.  It’s due this Friday at 11:59pm.  Hall Health is also offering a free IPad as a raffle for students who have taken the survey.  If you input your e-mail at the end of the survey (no attempt will be made to identify you), you’ll automatically be entered in the drawing.

 

Thank you so much!!

Seattle World School to host Documentary Screening on Friday, April 22^nd at 6:00pm at Roosevelt HS. 

Title/Subject: Invite: Horeta – ሆረታ The Journey Beyond Culture Documentary Screening

Dear Friends –

I’m writing to invite you to join me for a screening of the documentary film I have been working on, Horeta ሆረታ (Ge’ez /Amharic/) Journey beyond culture – Documentary about 15 students from UW Seattle, UW Bothell, who embarked on a journey to Ethiopia known as the cradle of mankind, to examine the factors that contribute to the Ethiopian and Africans cultural identity. To gain insight into how Ethiopians see themselves, and also to journey inward and re-examined assumptions about Africa in general and Ethiopia in particular. I am really excited to share this film with you and the community.

This event will be on Friday, April 22, 2016 At 6:00 – 9:30 PM at Roosevelt HS Auditorium.

Screening:
Friday, April 22, 2016 6:00 – 9:30 PM
Roosevelt High School Auditorium
1410 NE 66th St.,
Seattle, WA 98115
(206) 252-4810

You can learn more about the film by visiting our website and it would also be greatly appreciated if you could help us spread the word by sending the link to your family friends, networks, and people who you feel maybe interested in this educational documentary about Africa!

Please check out our trailer and site to learn more:
Website:
Trailer:
Cost is free.

Caring Connections

A Grief/Loss Support Group

University of Washington Counseling Center

There is a grief that ages the face

And hardens the heart

Yet softens the spirit…

Grief is a normal and natural reaction to the loss or death of some-one dear to us. This group is designed specifically to facilitate the healing process of such a loss. As we take care of this unfinished business, we open up ourselves for comfort and hope.

Time: Fri 3-4:30pm, 401 Schmitz Hall

Please call 206-543-1240 to set up an intake appointment.

Facilitators:

David Slagle, M.S., LMFT

Lina Pranata, Ph.D.

 

For more info about the UW Counseling Center: https://www.washington.edu/counseling/about/

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