Student Org Elections!

Please join us for Student Org Elections!

Election Schedule:

--Nominations: Monday, June 20th to Sunday, June 26th at 11:59pm.
--Elections: Monday, June 27th to Friday, July 1st at 5:00pm.
--Results: Will be sent out Sunday night, July 3rd.

**Elected candidates will be given until July 2nd at 5:00pm to accept their position. If individuals do not accept by this time they will forfeit their position.

**All elected individuals who accept a position will be required to attend Student Org General Meeting on Wednesday, July 6th at 12:40 in the Scales living room. This will be a transition meeting for all exiting and incoming student group leaders. There will be no e-board meeting July 4th due to the holiday.

How to Nominate

• Check Moodle's Student Org page for current Student Org Positions and descriptions.
• Students are encouraged to nominate those who they believe would be strong leaders in these positions.
• Self-nominations are accepted.
• To nominate, go to send an email to SSWVoting@gmail.com with the name of the individual you are nominating and the position(s)
• Nominated students will be notified via email about their nominations.
• Students can be nominated and run for multiple positions but can only accept one position.

Students are also encouraged to direct questions about specific positions to those currently holding the positions (a list of current Student Org members and titles is also in the document). Other questions can be directed to Jaleesa Myers and Jackie Cosse at SSWVoting@gmail.com.

Sponsored by: Student Org

Strength for the Struggle, A zine workshop for creative collaboration in the midst of chaos

Welcoming activists, dissidents, misfits, troublemakers, creatives, queers, radicals, zine people, zine-curious, poets, writers, and faculty to a zine making workshop. Join us as we re-purpose withdrawn government documents and mainstream media, come together as a supportive, empathetic community in a time of chaos, and creatively regenerate strength for the struggle (#SftS).

Wednesday, July 27, 2016
3-5 p.m.
@ the KnowledgeLab, Neilson Library, 2nd floor

Sponsored by: The KnowledgeLab; Neilson Library staff members

Contact: Amanda Ferrara at apferrar@smith.edu

A Retirement Party for Three Esteemed Colleagues (8/4)

This summer the Smith College School For Social Work will be holding a celebration to honor the many years of service dedicated to our School and the Social Work profession by our retiring faculty members Professor Joan Berzoff, Adjunct Associate Professor Fred Newdom, and Associate Professor Catherine Nye. Please save the date and join us in celebrating all three of their many accomplishments on August 4, 2016, at 5:00-6:30 p.m. in the Smith College Campus Center. Refreshments and appetizers will be served.

For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/ssw/about_news.php#2016retirementparty

International Scholars Dinner

Each year the Smith College School for Social Work hosts scholars from around the world who join our community to learn about pedagogy and clinical theory. To help orient our guests and to increase their connections on campus, a welcome dinner will be hosted on Monday, July 25th from 6:00-8:00 p.m. in the King Living Room. Please RSVP with Maddy Neely by sending an email to mneely@smith.edu by July 22, 2016.
 

2016 Public Lecture Series in Social Work

The Smith College School for Social Work is pleased to offer its lively and informative summer public lecture series to area professionals, students, and alumni. All lectures take place at 7:30 p.m. on the Smith College Campus. Lectures are free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. (See below for additional accessibility information).

Monday, June 13
Brown Foundation Research Lecture
A Decade of Research on Adoptive Families Headed by Same-Sex and Heterosexual Couples: Findings, Reflections, and Applications
Abbie E. Goldberg, Ph.D.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall

Monday, June 27
Annual Anti-Racism Lecture
Love, Race, and Invisibility in a World of 'Us' and 'Them'
John L. Jackson, Jr., Ph.D.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall

Friday, July 22
E. Diane Davis Lecture
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Principles in Action
Charles R. Swenson, M.D.
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall

Monday, August 1
Lydia Rapoport Lecture
Bridges to Better Health and Wellness: A culturally-adapted health care manager intervention for Latinos with Serious Mental Illness
Leopoldo J. Cabassa, M.S.W, Ph.D.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall

Accessibility Accommodations
Weinstein Auditorium is wheelchair accessible. For other disability accommodations or sign language interpreters, please contact the Office of the Dean at 413-585-7983 or email deanstaff@smith.edu, at least two weeks in advance of the lecture.

For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/ssw/acad_cont_lectures_summer.php

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Day & time: Thursdays, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
(Class goes to 9pm June 9 & August 11; NO CLASS on 7/14)
Location: Helen Hills Hills Chapel
Facilitated by: Annemarie Gockel and Lynn Koerbel, Center for Mindfulness at UMass

This is a non-credit, eight-week offering, sponsored by the school to promote student wellbeing and self-care. Developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, MBSR has been shown to reduce anxiety, depression and negative affect among health and mental health professionals and increase positive affect and self-compassion.

This course is specially adapted for SSW students and provides an introduction to core MBSR practices in a shortened time-frame, geared to busy Smith students who would like to explore the potential of mindfulness to manage stress, increase well-being and sustain them in their professional pursuits as a clinical social worker.

Please note this is not a course in teaching MBSR with others, but rather a course focused on one's own personal stress management.

The course will take place on campus in the Helen Hills Hills Chapel on Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:30pm (with the exception of 7/14, which is during break week). Normally class ends at 8:30pm, but will we go to 9pm the first and the final class.

An Orientation Meeting for all those interested in participating will be held Thursday, June 9th at 7:00pm in the Helen Hills Hills Chapel. This meeting can help you decide whether the program is a fit for your needs. Students can sign up for the program at the orientation session itself. Space is limited.

For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/ssw/life_stress_reduction.php

E-Access Help Session

Brenda Jameson from the Lazarus Center will be hosting a help session in the Scales Living Room on Tuesday, July 5th from 12:00-1:30 p.m. to help students understand E-Access (how to apply to Resume and On-Campus Interview postings). Feel free to bring your lunch.

SSW Resume Collection and On-Campus Interview Days

The Smith College Lazarus Center for Career Development will be hosting SSW Resume Collection and On-Campus Interview Days for graduating Master of Social Work students.

Employers are posting positions to collect applications for a variety of social work jobs. Participating employers include:

Y.O.U. Inc
MHM Correctional Services
The Brien Center
Family Affirmation for Treatment & Kaleidoscope Therapeutic Day Care
SouthBay Comm Services
Cutchins Program NCCF
Hospice of Franklin County
Riverside Community Care
ServiceNet
Eliot Community Services
VNA Care
River Valley Counseling

How to apply:
Sign into your E-Access account.
Username is your Student ID (99#) and the password is smith.

1) Click on Search Job & Internships
2) In the search field type 2016 SSW
3) Each position title will indicate whether or not it's an on-campus interview or a resume collection.

On-Campus Interview postings: Selected candidates will be notified by email to sign up for an interview time through the link on their E-Access home page. Interviews will be held on either July 25 and July 26 at the Lazarus Center.

Resume collection postings: Employers will contact selected students directly to set up a time and location for an interview.

NEED HELP?
Brenda Jameson from the Lazarus Center will be in Scales Living Room on Tuesday, July 5 from 12:00-1:30 p.m. to help students with E-Access and applying to positions. Feel free to bring your lunch.

Student Application deadline: Thursday, July 14 2016.

FREE - Second Friday at the Smith College Museum of Art

On July 8, from 4:00-6:00 PM Hands-on! Art making for all ages at the Smith College Museum of Art, inspired by works on view.

This month: Happy Valley- Create your own miniature Happy Valley, inspired by the familiar landscape of local artist Sally Curcio's magical bubble sculptures.
At 6:00 PM Open Eyes- join a guided gallery conversation exploring a different art object each month.

The Museum Shop will be open from 11 AM - 8:00 PM and light refreshments will be served. Image Credit: Lynne Graves

Sponsored by: Smith College Museum of Art

SCMA Exhibit: The Lay of the Land: Contemporary Landscapes from the Collection

This exhibition, entirely drawn from works in SCMA's holdings, offers a wide variety of contemporary perspectives by American artists on the landscape in its natural, altered, or re-imagined forms. Featuring a range of topographies from cultivated lands to forest and desert, The Lay of the Land highlights new acquisitions, as well as works being displayed for the first time.

Open now through September 11, 2016.

For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/On-View/The-Lay-of-the-Land

Sponsored by: Smith College Museum of Art

SCMA Exhibit: Dislocation/Negotiating Identity: Contemporary Photographs from South and Southeast Asia

Dislocation/Negotiating Identity: Contemporary Photographs from South and Southeast Asia includes over forty photographs by a diverse group of nine artists, both emerging and well-established, from Cambodia, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Vietnam. Although the geographical and cultural specificity of their works is important, each of these artists is focused on the complexities of identity, within and beyond national boundaries. Using strategies of documentation, imaginative staging, and the appropriation of found photographs, these individual artists have produced a set of highly evocative and powerful images. Rooted in complex histories, they are nevertheless highly contemporary and will be meaningful to viewers everywhere.

This exhibition is supported by the Nolen Endowed fund for Asian Art Initiatives.
Open now through August 14, 2016.

For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/On-View/Dislocation-Negotiating-Identity3

Sponsored by: Smith College Museum of Art

Zumba for POC (alternating Sat/Sun)

Zumba for People of Color:
Time: Every other Saturday or Sunday (will alternate). Saturday's @ 11a, Sunday's @ 11a, beginning 6/18
Location: Ainsworth 304

Zumba

Amber McDowell-Reese, will offer Zumba Class in Ainsworth 304, to the Smith College School for Social Work community Summer 2016. The times offered are below:

Time: Tuesday's @ 6p, Thursday's @ 7a, beginning 6/14

Zumba for People of Color:
Time: Every other Saturday or Sunday (will alternate). Saturday's @ 11a, Sunday's @ 11a, beginning 6/18

Chair Massage

Amber McDowell-Reese of Serene in the City, PLLC will now offer health and wellness therapuetic massage to the Smith College School for Social Work community Summer 2016. Appointments are by request only, and are located in a private room in Scales. Introductory first time price is $25 per hour, $30 per hour for aromatherapy/reflexology add-on. The various modalities offered include: Relaxation/Swedish, Trigger/ Tender Point Release, Deep Tissue, Injury/Treatment, Pre-natal, and Aromatherapy/Reflexology

For appointments, please call (206) 437-4608 or email serenetouch2014@gmail.com
**In addition, please note sliding scale and/or trades available **

For more information, visit www.ambermcdowellreese.com