Stock Emails and flyer For SAC rep Advert and Confirmation of position

Email sent to interested students who wanted more info

The Student Advisory Council (SAC) is a body comprised of two student representatives from each cohort and two faculty advisors. SAC has worked hard to create a myriad of student centered changes at the UW School of Social Work. Most recently, SAC has worked with the SSW administration to continue to develop shared governance, a process where students would have increased input in the running of the School of Social Work. SAC is where students like you can build the confidence needed to advocate for future clients in large bureaucratic organizations by advocating for your cohort in the complex University system.

Time: You can anticipate SAC requiring a weekly time commitment. Although SAC members only meet twice a month, you can expect to be in regular contact with SAC members to complete project commitments. That may include answering emails or attending small group meetings with fellow SAC members, students, faculty or staff. SAC representatives are allowed to miss no more than 2 scheduled meetings. Virtual attendance is an option for those unable to attend in person.

Passion: It is essential that you are passionate about lasting change at the UW. The SSW we have today is the product of many iterations of SAC striving to make the SSW an inclusive and just learning community. Although the work of SAC can feel like baby steps, it is essential to making large scale change. You will be working on projects that may not come to fruition in your time at UW but will certainly better the SSW for future cohorts and will ultimate improve the quality social workers in the field.

Representation: Along with our own passions, it is important that we can stand aside and speak for a variety of perspectives and needs of your cohort. This commitment also includes being visible as a representative, being in regular conversation with your cohort about their experience of the program or university and being a source of information about the activities of SAC.

Collaboration: SAC requires an ability to collaborate honestly and earnestly with students, faculty and staff. This includes being communicative about your sustainable capacity and availability.

Consensus Decision Making: SAC meetings will run on a consensus decision making model. This model and variations of it are often used in activist communities and other grassroots organizations. Learning this skill with help develop your problem solving and egalitarian communication skills. A workshop on consensus will be provided.

Leadership: Taking leaps of faith and trusting in yourself to speak on behalf of others is an essential skill in the field of social work. SAC will give you opportunities to build confidence in a supportive environment of other learners.

SAC will meet on Mondays generally twice a month, from 5:30pm-7:00pm. The forecast meeting schedule for the 2019 - 2020 academic year is as follows:

October 28th - extended orientation (please hold on your calendar now if you choose to nominate yourself)

November 4th

November 18th

December 2nd

January 6th

January 13th - (adjusted for MLK day 1/20)

February 3rd

February 24th - (adjusted for President’s day 2/17)

March 2nd

March 30th

April 20th

May 4th

May 18th

June 1st

With much excitement,

-Boi Casillas

(they/them)

Email sent to sudents who were accepted into sac

I’m happy to invite you to join the SSW Student Advisory Council as the Junior BASW representatives. We’ll soon be updating the SAC information with your information: http://socialwork.uw.edu/sac-members-events

We will be adding you to an email list where we all communicate, sacssw@uw.edu.

We hope you can join us for our meeting on Monday, October 28th, from 5:30-8pm. Please also mark your calendars for the following dates, 5:30-7pm:

November 4th

November 18th

December 2nd

January 6th

January 13th - (adjusted for MLK day 1/20)

February 3rd

February 24th - (adjusted for President’s day 2/17)

March 2nd

March 30th

April 20th

May 4th

May 18th

June 1st

So, please confirm back that you got this email. It would also be great to know if you have any dietary restrictions and if you have a phone number that we can put on the roster that is only shared among SAC members.

We’re still waiting for a few representatives from other cohorts to be selected, and then we will have a full team for the year.

Thanks and Congratulations. I look forward to working with you!

Sent for orientation

Hello all,

I am writing to remind you of the SAC Orientation coming up on Monday the 28th. Dinner will be provided. Below is a schedule and some material for you to review before the meeting. If you have not yet informed us of any food allergies or religious/ethical diet, please do so ASAP.

Here is the schedual:

5:30 Dinner is served and Introductions

5:45 Consensus Decision Making video and Discussion

6:10 Break

6:15 Faux Consensus Meeting Practice

6:50 Break

7:00 Hang out and Games

Please listen to the fallowing video linked below from timestamps 2:10-29:00 and 50:00-54:00.

These portions of the video will go over the values of consensus, roles in a consensus meeting, and the process of consensus. If you have time please take some notes on any thoughts or questions you have on this video.

***heads up if you are watching and not just listening to this video, there are a lot of stock office photos with tolkenized POC in them, I found it irritating and wanted to acknowledge it***

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m3yjrC23Fc&t=33s

Consensus 101: Basic Training in Consensus - YouTube

Consensus 101 is a training video of participants in Consensus Decision-Making. It explains the basics of consensus. After watching you can take a post-test and earn a certificate verfying that ...

www.youtube.com

I will email once the final room number is determined.

Thank you all for your participation in SAC!

I a so excited to work with you all,

-Boi Casillas