Aug

31

Providing Health Services in Domestic Violence Programs

August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Another good webinar in the FVPF‘s healthcare series: Providing Health Services to Survivors in Domestic Violence Programs. The session will be held October 6th from 11-12:30 PT. This series is free, but preregistration is required. The speakers have not yet been announced at this time.

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Aug

31

How SART Teams Discuss Sexual Assault Cases

August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Lots of SART webinars happening right now. Next up: MNCASA’s Sexual Violence Justice Institute and their offering on how SARTs discuss sexual assault cases. The session will take place Wednesday, September 8th from 12-1:30pm CT. Registration is free.

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Aug

28

Weekend Extra: WTF???

August 28, 2010 | 1 Comment

Enough of you sent this to me that I just had to post it: Those tricky vaginas: they can make or break a deal. Thank god for these pearls of wisdom…

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Aug

27

Weekly Wrap-Up & NSAC

August 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Next week the National Sexual Assault Conference will be going on in Los Angeles. Sadly, I won’t be there this time (I’ll be with the Navy in Newport), but I’ll be able to catch up on all of the fantastic things happening there, because CALCASA’s going to be tweeting updates in real time (as will [...]

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Aug

26

Physician Expert Testimony

August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Medscape has an interesting CME case study on physician expert testimony. And when I say interesting, I mean that it touches on a couple issues (albeit briefly) that are relevant to anyone providing this service, physician or nurse. Specifically, it touches on the notion that expert testimony should be subject to peer review, and that [...]

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Aug

25

New Emergency Contraception Approved

August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment

I love when people surprise me. Today, before our course started, one of the young (male) Army JAGs came up to me to discuss a news item he had read recently. He told me he had heard there was a new “morning after” pill that had just been approved by the FDA (I 1st posted [...]

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Aug

24

Immigration, Sexual Violence & Current Legal Climate

August 24, 2010 | 1 Comment

WCSAP is hosting a webinar Monday, August 30th at 11am PT: Immigration, Sexual Assault and the Current Legal Climate. Space is limited for this one, so register ASAP if you’re interested. The featured speaker is Sonia Parras Konrad from ASISTA, a national organization providing immigration technical assistance on representing survivors of crimes of violence.

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Aug

20

Weekly Wrap-Up

August 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment

It’s been an amazing week here in DC, as we have just finished up the inaugural offering of our National Institute for the Prosecution of Domestic Violence II, which took our first DV course to an entirely new level. But that has left all of us exhausted and slightly bewildered: we’ll be starting over again [...]

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Aug

19

SART Case Review

August 19, 2010 | 3 Comments

Just a reminder: there is a complimentary session from SAFEta Source: SART Case Review. The session will be held next Tuesday, August 24th at 2pm ET. From the site: Presented by Linda Ledray, PhD, RN, FAAN, SANE-A, this webinar will offer education and practical solutions to Sexual Assault Response Teams that are looking for resources [...]

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Aug

17

Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault Protocol

August 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment

RTI, in collaboration with the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center is offering a web-based course: An Overview of DFSA SANE/SAFE/SART Protocol 1 (which means, presumably, there will be at least one more?). The live web course is being offered on 4 different occasions over the next 2 months: 8/18 (sorry–just got this) 3-5 pm [...]

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