Choose from dates in late Feb/early Mar (see below)
1700 Student Services Building
Audience: UIC Students (all levels)

UIC students are a huge part of what makes the Women's Leadership and Resource Center and Campus Advocacy Network successful.

Whether you're familiar with our center or are hearing about us for the first time, come to a focus group and tell us how we can improve WLRC/CAN!

Food and big thank you gifts provided!

Fill out this form and choose from these dates:

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Wednesday, February 25
3-4:30pm | 1700 SSB & Zoom
Audience: UIC Students (all levels)

How do you navigate relationships after experiencing gender-based violence (dating/domestic violence, sexual assault, harassment, or stalking)?

Join us to learn and share healing and healthy relationship strategies while enjoying tea and treats.

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Apply by March 1
Audience: UIC Undergraduate Students

The Heritage Garden is a student-led, hands-on paid internship program exploring environmental, climate, and social justice through an intercultural lens. DACA & RISE Act eligible students encouraged to apply!

Internship dates: May 26 - August 14
Schedule: Mon - Fri, 10am - 2pm
Stipend: ~ $3,900

Info Session: Tue, Feb. 17, 2-3pm, on @uiclascareer IG

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Monday, March 2
5-6:30pm | 153 BSB
Audience: Everyone (open to the public)

Join UIC Gender & Women’s Studies for a celebration of GWS faculty members’ new books and to spend time together in community! This event showcases a powerful range of contributions to feminist scholarship, activism, and collective liberation. Light refreshments and non-alcoholic drinks will be served!

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Wednesday, March 18 | 11am - 12:30pm
Monday, April 6 | 12-1:30pm
Latino Cultural Center
Audience: Everyone (open to the public)

Join us for some hands-on gardening and learn how Heritage Garden interns are connecting horticulture with environmental sustainability, cultural diversity, and social justice. 

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Is your department or student organization hosting an event for Women's History Month in March? Send details to wlrc@uic.edu for inclusion on our WHM website (go.uic.edu/whm)!

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Meet Nate Chang Sawyer, CCUSC Community Mental Health Intern!

As the Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change (CCUSC) community mental health intern, Nate offers different kinds of 1:1 student support including but not limited to:

- mental health/therapeutic support
- connections to resources and mutual aid, and
- advocacy support while navigating institutional barriers and academic ableism.

As a Taiwanese-American graduate student with lived experience of mental illness and psychiatric disability, Nate’s work is centered on collaborating with fellow students to imagine and build structures of collective care inside the university.

There are no costs or session caps. Meetings can be scheduled via email (nsawy@uic.edu) for both in-person and remote. Nate’s office is in 4080 BSB.

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As the academic year progresses and many of you and your families are being impacted by the actions of ICE and their abductions, WLRC and the Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change (CCUSC) want to underline our ongoing support to you all. Remember that there are multiple pillars on campus to help you stay resolute in completing your studies.

As you continue to fight the good fight, know that you are not alone in the urgency you are feeling. Our space is open to study, gather in community, and check in with

staff. We are here to support your academic success through the end of the semester and beyond. We will continue to find courage in our solidarity and community, fight injustice, and build spaces of love and care.

Additional Campus Resources:

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Survivors, we are here for you!

Please reach out to the Campus Advocacy Network any time you need support, information, resources, answers, and/or advocacy related to safety, healing, or gender-based violence (sexual assault, domestic/dating violence, stalking, harassment, family abuse).

Our services are free, confidential, and open to all members of the UIC community.

To connect with an advocate:

We can help you

We're also here for allies! Please reach out to us if you are in a role where you may need to support survivors on campus (instructors, mentors, advisors, student leaders, friends, or colleagues) or have questions about resources, mandated reporting, and more. 

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If you are a student leader, instructor, or supervisor, please consider inviting CAN to speak to your class through our Don’t Cancel Your Class! program, or request a training for your department, college, student organization, or other campus unit. 

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Faculty, please include info about us in your curriculum and syllabus:

"If you have experienced sexual assault, domestic/dating violence, stalking, or harassment, there is help available. The Campus Advocacy Network provides free and confidential services to UIC students, faculty, and staff who have experienced or are experiencing interpersonal violence. 

Pregnant and parenting students are also welcome to contact CAN for resources, information, and support.

If you would like to speak with an advocate, please email CAN at can-appointment@uic.edu, call (312) 413-8206 and leave a voicemail message, text (312) 488-9784, or fill out CAN's Ask An Advocate form online at can.uic.edu/ask. To learn more, visit CAN's website at can.uic.edu."

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UIC Asian American Resource and Cultural Center: Become an AAMP Mentor
Apply by February 20
AAMP is designed to ease the transition of new students to UIC during their first semester. Activities include social activities, academic and cultural workshops, as well as virtual group hangouts.

Equal Pay Coalition: Barb Yong Equal Pay Scholarship
Apply by March 2
Supports Chicago college students dedicated to advancing social justice and addressing gender equity, racial justice, education access, and workers' rights.

Obama Foundation: Voyager Scholarship
Apply by March 17
Supports students who have a passion for helping others and experience serving their communities.

UIC United Faculty: Apply for the Student Fast Fund
The UICUF FAST Fund is now taking applications for grants of up to $500 to support students in emergency financial situations. 

UIC Black History Month
February 1-28
The BHM Student Planning Committee invites you to participate in this year’s celebrations honoring the theme "Stories of Our Resistance and Resilience."

From Chicago to Phnom Penh: Performing Otherness and Home 
Friday, February 20 | 11am, Hull-House Dining Hall
Artist, educator, and global agitator Anida Yoeu Ali will present a hybrid performance/talk and visual experience on themes of transnationalism, otherness, and belonging.

UIC Grad College: Honoring the Fallen: Memorial Vigil for the People of Iran
Tuesday, February 24 | 12-2pm, UH Lawn
Honor the victims connected to the recent movement in Iran, including those affected by the January crackdowns, and learn more about the ongoing humanitarian and human-rights crisis.

me too. Movement: The Healing Journey: Touching Earth
Tuesday, February 24 | 3:30-5pm, Zoom
This session will explore the connection between environmental justice and our collective healing and explore earth-based healing practices.

UIC Social Justice Initiative: Still Searching Documentary Screening
Wednesday, February 25 | 6-8:30pm, 1344 S. Halsted 
View a special editor's cut of a documentary about Chicago’s missing Black women and girls, followed by a panel discussion.

Community Care: Taking Care of Ourselves and Each Other (East Campus)
Thursday, February 26 | 1:30-3pm, SEO 1000
This UIC Faculty/Staff-centered workshop session focuses on uncertainty, burnout, and frustration while creating space to listen, share stories, and support one another.

UIC Grad College: Teach-in about the Crisis in Iran
Tuesday, March 3 | 11:30am - 2pm, 605 Student Center East
Learn more about the ongoing humanitarian and human-rights crisis in Iran.

Community Care: Taking Care of Ourselves and Each Other (West Campus)
Tuesday, March 3 | 2-3:30pm, Odeh Center
This UIC Faculty/Staff-centered workshop session focuses on uncertainty, burnout, and frustration while creating space to listen, share stories, and support one another.

Feminist Majority Foundation: National Young Feminist Leadership Conference
March 28-30, Arlington, VA
NYFLC is a weekend of learning, organizing, and community-building with truly extraordinary feminists; from long-time movement leaders to emerging student organizers.

Healing to Action: Apply for Healing Generations Leadership Program
Apply by March 31
Designed by and for survivors, Healing Generations is an 8-week program where participants learn about gender-based violence and related topics while also building skills to organize against gender-based violence as a community.

UIC Women in Engineering Programs: Women in Engineering Summer Program
June 13 - July 8 | Apply by April 4
WIESP is a free program that offers 11th- & 12th-grade students an opportunity to learn about engineering through hands-on projects and corporate partner visits. 

UIC Counseling Center: Parenting Student Support Group
Thursdays | 12-1pm, Hybrid
Come as you are to connect, share experiences, and receive support from your peers. This support group is open to any UIC student who is a parent or caregiver in any way.

UIC Law Pro Bono Litigation Clinic: Free Name & Gender Marker Changes
Students assist transgender individuals with changing their names and identification documents, prepare necessary court documents, and appear in court on behalf of individuals at hearings. Includes court and document fees.

UIC Library: Upcoming Events
Check out events from the Undergraduate Engagement Program and other departments within the university library!

CAASE: Upcoming Events
The Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE) addresses the culture, institutions, and individuals that perpetrate, profit from, or support sexual exploitation through prevention, policy reform, community engagement, and legal service.

Resilience: Upcoming Events
Resilience works to end rape culture and empower sexual assault survivors through advocacy, education, and healing.

Check out what's happening at all our sibling centers this week!

Founded as a direct result of campus activism, the UIC Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change (CCUSC) work collectively to produce knowledge and shift university culture, validating the multidimensional lived experiences of historically and currently excluded communities.

Informed by social justice frameworks, the Centers support students, faculty, and staff as they build a strong identity and sense of belonging, becoming change agents for a more just campus and society.

The Centers connect our communities and design intercultural and engaged-learning opportunities, student mentorship programs, cultural programming, advocacy, collaborative research, and community partnerships.

Through these efforts, the Centers expand the educational and transformational mission of UIC.

In light of actual and potential threats to our communities, both here at UIC and throughout the Chicago area, it's important to know what our rights are when interacting with immigration and other federal law enforcement officers.

WHAT TO DO

UIC's administration has shared official protocols for such interactions on campus.

If you need assistance or suspect ICE presence anywhere in IL, please call the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) Hotline: 1-855-435-7693.

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CAMPUS RESOURCES

UPCOMING TRAININGS & EVENTS

We are here for you and will continue to share resources and information with our campus community.

UIC Women’s Leadership and Resource Center
& Campus Advocacy Network

1700 Student Services Building (MC 363)
1200 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607

(312) 413-1025 ∙ wlrc@uic.edu ∙ wlrc.uic.edu

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