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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

25

Recent Sexual Assault Articles

January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment

I’m teaching this week in Houston, so it may end up being a spare week here at FHO (these are some long days, my friends, and sometimes my brain hurts at the end of them). But I wanted to share a few recent articles and op-eds that have been published on the issues of sexual [...]

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Jan

23

CDC Injury and Violence Prevention Grand Rounds Webcast

January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment

For those of you not able to make the live presentation of The Science Base for Prevention of Injury and Violence, it is now available as a webcast on the CDC’s site. You can also download a print-friendly PDF of the slides.

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Jan

20

Assessing Elder Abuse Risk

January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment

The Ash Center’s Government Innovator’s Network has a webinar coming up: Building a Risk Assessment Tool for the NH Bureau of Elderly and Adult Services. It will be held January 31st from 2-4pm ET. The session will specifically look at researcher-practitioner partnerships, which is always of interest to me (and I know many of you [...]

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Jan

18

Preventing Shaken Baby Syndrome by Educating Caregivers

January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment

The National Child Protection Training Center has a webinar coming up on abusive head trauma. Preventing Shaken Baby Syndrome by Educating Caregivers is being offered on January 30th, 2pm CT. Space is limited to 100, so if you’re interested, register ASAP.

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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

6

Revisions to the UCR Definition of Rape

January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment

I just received this notice, but I’ll be on a plane when it’s scheduled (on Monday the 9th). Perhaps some of you would like to attend: Friends: The Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced the adoption of a revised definition of rape in the Uniform Crime Report.

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Jan

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Combatting Child Trafficking

January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment

I missed this offering when it was live, but happily for us, it’s been archived: The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation held a webinar in November, Best Practices to Combat Child Trafficking. The archived webinar also includes downloadable slide decks from each of the 3 speakers, as well as a nice looking resource page.

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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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