Sep
30
Have You Heard Anything?
September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I don’t normally post personal issues here at FHO, but I am pretty worried about our friends and colleagues in American Samoa and the affected region. If you have news, could you please pass it along? And if you are so inclined, please consider donating to the Relief Fund for Sexual Assault Victims, established to [...]
Sep
30
Culturally Competent Care for GLBT Survivors
September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
VAWNet has a new resource available focusing on culturally competent care of LGBT survivors of sexual violence. Aside from the comprehensive article by Sabrina Gentlewarrior (printable version here), you can also access a variety of linked resources over on the summary page. This is a topic that is sorely underrepresented in the literature, so we [...]
Sep
29
Bullying's Impact on Girls
September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Medscape has a new CE offering on the impact of bullying on girls. Seems that a new study indicates that girls have far more long-term psychological sequelae from bullying than boys, a finding particularly interesting to me as the mother of a girl-child. If you’d like to get better acquainted with the study (or at [...]
Sep
28
Forensic Compliance: UPDATED
September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment
For those of you out there struggling with issues around VAWA 2005 forensic compliance, technical assistance is now available through EVAW International. Additionally, they have a variety of materials available on the topic, as well as a couple webinars coming up. The first webinar will be October 15th at 2pm ET: Medical Forensic Exams Conducted [...]
Sep
25
Weekly Wrap-Up @ the Sustainability Blog
September 25, 2009 | 2 Comments
Just back from a terrific trip to CO Springs/Alamosa (where, among other things, I got a tour of the gorgeous Memorial program and also ate my weight in Mexican food). We were also busy over at the Sustainability site this week: A reminder about the Victim Privacy webinar being hosted by SAFE TA on Oct. [...]
Sep
24
Early Brain Development in Children
September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Missouri Children’s Trust has an archived podcast on their site from Dr. Linda Chamberlain on the early brain development of children. In the podcast, she discusses how witnessing domestic and other violence impacts developing brains. Access is free: listen to it online or download it to your iPod for future use.
Sep
23
Professional Boundaries
September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Family Justice Center Alliance is hosting a webinar on maintaining professional boundaries, October 1st from 9-10 am Pacific. The session is free, but preregistration is required.
Sep
22
Statistics and Juries
September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Today’s post is an incredibly wonky one–many of you will bail right off the bat, and of those of you who decide to check out this video, several of you won’t make it past the 2 minute mark. So what is the fascinating offering I’m posting? It’s actually a session from TED that I find [...]
Sep
21
Victim Privacy
September 21, 2009 | 2 Comments
The Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Technical Assistance (SAFE TA) project is hosting a free webinar October 13th from 2-3:30 ET on victim privacy. Susan Chasson MSN, JD, SANE-A (an IAFN past-president and practicing SANE) and Jessica Mindlin, Esq. (from the Victim Rights Law Center) will be the featured presenters.
Sep
18
Weekly Wrap-Up @ the Sustainability Blog
September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Much of the content on the sustainability site this week was pretty self-centered, I must say. But hopefully it’s useful, so, if you’ll indulge me: The slides from the session I did at NSAC on sustainability are posted here under Conference Handouts (click here to go to them directly). They’ll be available for 30 days [...]
