May
13
Disability and Transgender Survivors
May 13, 2013 | Leave a Comment
No articles to recount this week–I spent Mother’s Day thoroughly engaged with my family to the exclusion of all things media-related. So a quick post about an upcoming webinar on a topic not widely covered: FORGE is offering a session, Disability and Transgender Survivors: Empowering Providers Who Work with Multiply Marginalized Populations. It will be [...]
May
9
Elder Abuse: Domestic Violence in Later Life
May 9, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Apologies for my absence, but I have been decidedly disconnected these last couple days while at JFTB Los Alamitos. I will try and make it up to you next week, but I will be here for the bulk of the week, so let’s see how it goes (and if you’ll be in Kansas City for [...]
May
2
Trauma Informed Approach for Youth
May 2, 2013 | 2 Comments
First, what a lovely day I spent with Vermont nurses today. Really interesting conversation (plus the location, which I tweeted, was awesome). Second, between training Army lawyers earlier in the week and training 2 sets of Marine lawyers next week, can I tell you how nice it was to be in a room full of [...]
Apr
10
The DNA Resource Center at NCVC is hosting a webinar, Sexual Assault Cold Case Survivors and the Neurobiology of Trauma. The session will be held April 23rd at 1pm EST, and is being presented by the always fantastic Dr. Rebecca Campbell.
Apr
2
Sexual Assault Awareness Month Twitter Chats
April 2, 2013 | Leave a Comment
As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, NSVRC is hosting Twitter chats every Tuesday (starting today), based on this year’s theme: healthy sexuality and child sexual abuse prevention. Check out the schedule with topics after the jump:
Mar
28
Maryland’s Lethality Assessment Program
March 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment
The Battered Women’s Justice Project is hosting a webinar, Maryland’s Lethality Assessment Program, April 16th at 2pm CT. This is a multidisciplinary session, and preregistration is required (by 4/15).
Mar
19
The Hurdles Victims of Human Trafficking Face
March 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment
NCVLI is hosting a webinar March 27th from 12-1:30 pm PT: The Hurdles Victims of Human Trafficking Face. The session is part of their Protecting Polyvictims Rights Project.
Mar
15
On Wednesday, one of the things we talked about in the sessions I led was the issue of social media use. Now I am a huge fan, as most of you know, and I think there are some incredible ways to harness social media professionally. Not sure how?
Mar
6
A Survivor’s Journey: Understanding the Health Impact of Abuse & Paths to Promote Wellness
March 6, 2013 | Leave a Comment
The National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence (Futures Without Violence) has a webinar coming up March 25th from 10-11:30 PDT, A Survivor’s Journey: Understanding the Health Impact of Abuse and Paths to Wellness. The presenter, Olga Trujillo, is someone I like very much and it’s always great hearing her speak, so I would just go [...]
Mar
5
Apologies for being absent yesterday, but a trial out of town makes it virtually impossible to get much else done. I’m back for the rest of the week, though, and preparing for what is naturally (because I’m in DC) being called Snowquestration. We haven’t had a real snow storm here in a couple years, so [...]
