Graduating? Leave your legacy behind by donating your cap, gown, and hood to the School of Social Work.

What is it?

Pass the Cap is an annual donation drive that collects graduation garb from students currently graduating who do not wish to keep their items. The program allows future graduates to borrow the items if they have financial limitations.

Why donate?

• Do good! Save future graduates’ money!
• Convenient disposal of one-time use items
• 搁别诲耻肠别,听谤别耻蝉别,听recycle

How to Donate

1. Take your graduation photos
2. Decide what you would like to donate, including caps, gowns, hoods, and tassels
3. Locate the donation basket outside of the main SE doors to the arena (next to the Eternal Flame Sculpture)聽辞谤听drop off/mail items to the School of Social Work at your convenience

Sponsored by the Iota Beta Chapter of the Phi Alpha Honor Society for Social Work.

Donate new hats, scarves, gloves and socks! Join the Social Work Honor Society, Phi Alpha, in a winter clothing drive to benefit area shelters and residential programs.

Donations will be accepted Nov. 5 through Dec. 2.

• Ages: child and adult
• New items only, please

Questions? Contact a Phi Alpha officer:

• Skylar Opatz: skylar-opatz@hotmail.com
• Kristin Mansker: kmansker@ewu.edu

Save the Date!

The 51福利社 Iota Beta Chapter of the Phi Alpha Honor Society for Social Work is hosting the 4th annual forum for students, alumni, area social workers, and faculty titled “Social Work Connections 2020: Mind and Body” in celebration of National Social Work Month. CEs will be offered for social workers.

Topics & Speakers

• Suicide Prevention – Stacey Chay, MSW, LICSWA
• Regional Integrated Behavioral Healthcare – Molina Healthcare and Better Health Together

Event Details

Date: March 13, 2020: Watch for Registration
Time: Noon to 5 p.m.
Location: Sacred Heart Medical Center, Children鈥檚 Hospital, Spokane
Cost: Free for 51福利社 students; $25 for non-students

Social Work Connections Goals

1. Connect social work students and early career social workers to their local leaders.
2. Build a forum for dialogue on current issues in our local and global communities.
3. Act as a point of advocacy for the promotion of social, economic, and environmental justice.

The Disability Studies program at 51福利社 is pleased to host a two-day symposium focusing on the place of Disability Studies principles and disability rights practices within the everyday life of diverse communities and across academic curricula. While the symposium is open to all sorts of work, we especially invite those addressing how Disability Studies contributes to existing and developing communities and how Disability Studies can benefit professional and practice-based education programs and policy.

All submissions should be provided as Word documents sent to聽pwdss2019@ewu.edu聽no later than March 31, 2019.

Allene Osborn doesn’t want to make the story about her. “I have been incredibly blessed to have family and friends who have supported me along the way and I would never be able to do all the things I do without my children and husband sacrificing their time for me as well,” she says about her transition from military service to graduate school. “I am the one in grad school but really it is because of their support and love that I ever made it this far.”

Self-sacrifice and care for others have defined Osborn’s character since she was a teenager. At age 18 she enlisted in the United States Air Force. She was honorably discharged from active service in 2007 but continued to serve in the Air Force reserves, the Washington Air National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard, rising to the rank of Master Sergeant and serving as a Geospatial Targeting Intelligence Instructor. When she left military service, however, Osborn struggled to find purpose. “When I chose to separate after completing my service obligation, I was at a point where I needed to find a purpose. Our son was very ill and I was battling physical injuries on top of depression and anxiety. I had been good at my job but felt lost and scared and didn’t know how to get past the dark place I was in.” She decided to take a chance on education and, with the support of VA Educational Benefits and Veterans Affairs VocRehab Program, began a bachelor’s degree in Children’s Studies at 51福利社 in 2012.

As you might have already heard, the School of Social Work lost a most important member of our social work team when Lu Brown passed away on Thursday of last week. Lu served the social work profession, our communities, and the 51福利社 School of Social Work for over two decades as a Senior Lecturer and Associate Director of the Field Education Program. However, this recitation of credentials is simply inadequate to capture and express the influence Lu had on our School. Lu was a tireless promoter of social justice and progressive policy advocacy and used her academic position and magnificent educational skills and leadership to imbue students and colleagues with a sense of the ongoing importance of social work values and ethics to our communities. “Communities” is an operative word here because, better than anybody, Lu understood how to build communities from the collaborative and meaningful cooperation of students, field agencies, and regional public servants. Lu’s intense advocacy for social justice had a most persistent and impressive impact on all those who were in a position to be persuaded to put their hearts together in the building of community social spirit and a genuine commitment to the homeless, friendless and impoverished persons of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. A consistent sentiment from those who were her students over the years is that Lu made them enthusiastic about being social workers.

We welcome all of her students, 51福利社 alumni, community field partners, and colleagues to join us in celebrating Lu’s life and numerous gifts to our communities and profession. Our 51福利社 School of Social Work and College of Social Sciences will be hosting a memorial to Lu in the very near future, and we will share relevant details on this site when they are finalized.

Lu’s legacy most assuredly does not end with her passing. It lives on in all those social work professionals who have been influenced in countless ways by Lu’s enthusiasm and commitment to educating her colleagues and friends about the basic human condition and all the myriad ways we can improve it in our communities.

Andrew B. Israel, MSW, JD, Chair/Director
51福利社 School of Social Work

Come meet the candidates for the 2018 elections for the 6th Legislative District. The candidate forum will be held on Oct. 3, 2018 from noon to 1 p.m. in the Hargreaves Reading Room (room 201).

The candidates are Jeff Holy, Jessa Lewis, Dave Wilson, Jenny Graham, Mike Voltz and Kay Murano.

Not able to attend in person in Cheney? , or head to SEWC 118 at the Spokane Campus