Dec

30

Happy New Year

December 30, 2011 | 1 Comment

It’s an exciting weekend here at FHO. Little brother is getting married tonight. And tomorrow I’m packing up the partner, the kid and the pup and heading to Baltimore to ring in the New Year with friends. Here’s hoping you will have the a.) festive, b.) peaceful, c.) romantic, d.) family-filled, e.) any combination thereof… [...]

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Dec

30

Mandatory Reporting and Confidentiality

December 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Vera Institute of Justice is offering a webinar on January 17th as part of their Accessing Safety Initiative, which “promotes collaborations between disability and victim service organizations and enhances organizational capacity to serve Deaf survivors and survivors with disabilities”. The session, Mandatory Reporting and Confidentiality, will take place from 3-4:30 pm ET.

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Dec

29

DoD Sexual Assault Report & New Policies

December 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The US Department of Defense just released a report on sexual assaults in military service academies (PDF), along with information about 2 new sexual assault policies  (transfers for victims and maintenance of records). You can find an overview of the information here.

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Dec

29

Goodbye, 2011

December 29, 2011 | 3 Comments

I’ve been looking over my stats from 2011, and I thought you might be interested in what was popular in 2011, and who visited our happy little site. Would you be surprised that the #1 search term that lands people at FHO is “toluidine blue dye”? Two and three were “Forensic Healthcare Online” and my [...]

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Dec

28

Forensic Compliance Update

December 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment

SAFEta and EVAW are hosting a joint webinar, Forensic Compliance: Where Do We Stand in 2012? The session will actually be offered twice–February 7th and February 16th, at 2pm ET. Kim Day and Kim Lonsway, from the above organizations, respectively, will be the presenters. Get registered, because you know this one is worth your time. And, of [...]

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Dec

27

Screening for Domestic Violence

December 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Hope everyone has had a lovely holiday, thus far. I’m back in the office for the week (and actually at home for 2 entire weeks before the travel crazy begins anew), slogging through the emails and voicemails. Plenty of interesting stuff showed up in my inbox last week while I was on vacation, so I [...]

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Dec

19

Vacation

December 19, 2011 | 3 Comments

FHO is on vacation this week. A very merry holiday season to you all. We’ll be lighting candles for 8 nights AND waiting to see what goodies are under the tree, so it’ll be a festive and full week for us. Here’s hoping you’ll have some time off this season, surrounded by the people you [...]

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Dec

16

NISVS Fact Sheet

December 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment

As a follow up to yesterday’s post, CDC has also created a two page fact sheet (PDF) that would be a great inclusion for staff meetings, clinical in-services and conversations with potential funders.

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Dec

15

National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey

December 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Results from the CDC’s 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS)  have just been released. You can read the Summary Report here (PDF); the briefer (8 page) Executive Summary here (PDF). Some of the bleak stats: **Nearly 1 in 5 women (18.3%) and 1 in 71 men (1.4%) in the United States have been raped [...]

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Dec

14

The Twice-Victimized of Sexual Assault

December 14, 2011 | 2 Comments

In what appears to be the 1st in a series they are doing on the issue (next week’s article will focus on care of sexual assault victims), the New York Times published a beautiful piece yesterday, The Twice-Victimized of Sexual Assault. Plus it quotes one of my favorite people, Dr. Rebecca Campbell. Good stuff–do read.

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