Feb

1

Free Online Violence Prevention Course

February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment

The CDC has a free, online violence prevention course available at their VetoViolence site: Principles of Prevention. It includes 1.7 hours of continuing educations for nurses; 1.75 for physicians.

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Jan

25

Rights and Experiences of LGBTQ Survivors of Domestic Violence

January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment

The Northwest Network is offering a webinar on February 14th, Engaging the Legal System: Rights and Experiences of LGBTQ Survivors of Domestic Violence. It’ll be held from 12-1:30 pm PT, and you can register here. I’m really looking forward to this one, since we know that patient concerns about the realities of the legal process [...]

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Jan

11

Injury Grand Rounds from the CDC

January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Tuesday, January 17th, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is offering the next in their Grand Rounds series: The Science Base for the Prevention of Injury and Violence. The live webcast will also be archived for 48 hours after the event. And if you’re interested in CEs, you can register for them here.

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Jan

9

Articles of Note: January Edition

January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment

It’s time once again for Articles of Note. These are a selection from the late December and January peer-reviewed journals that have caught my attention. Remember, it’s in no way a comprehensive or exhaustive list, but it’s an excellent place to start. The majority of the links will take you to PubMed. There are also [...]

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Jan

3

Connection Between DV and Stalking

January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment

January is Stalking Awareness Month, and over at VAWNet, there’s a great overview on the connection between domestic violence and stalking. By all means, click on the citations, as well, which will take you to full text documents. Good points to support any argument for expanding dv screening to include stalking behaviors. And further reason [...]

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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

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

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

7

Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence in Native Country

December 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The Family Justice Center Alliance is hosting a webinar on Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence in Native Country. The webinar will be December 13th from 1-2:30 pm ET. You can register for the session here.

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