Dec
21
The Essential Role of Death Certificates in Public Health
December 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
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Over at ReachMD, they have an interesting podcast I haven’t heard discussed elsewhere: The Essential Role of Death [...]
Dec
9
Data on IPV, Sexual Violence, and Stalking
December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is hosting a webinar December 16th at 1 pm ET: National and State-level Data on Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Violence, and Stalking, presented by Michele Lynberg Black, PhD, MPH. Attendance is free, but pre-registration is required.
Dec
8
The Spread of HIV Through Sexual Violence
December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment
ReachMD has a new podcast available now on the spread of HIV through sexual violence against women. It’s part of their Clinician’s Roundtable series. Access is free, but you must register to access the site. You have the choice of listening online, downloading the podcast for later review or downloading transcripts of the session. You [...]
Nov
30
Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Violence Prevention
November 30, 2009 | 1 Comment
The Sexual Violence Justice Institute at MNCASA is hosting a webinar, December 14th from 12-1:30 pm CST–Safe Harbors Youth Intervention Project: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Violence Prevention. Participation is free, but preregistration is recommended.
Nov
17
Integrating Injury & Violence Prevention
November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment
STIPDA, ASTHO, and NACCHO have several archived injury prevention webcasts, 2 of which might appeal: Integrating Injury and Violence Prevention with Maternal and Child Health Programs, and Integrating Injury and Violence Prevention with Healthy Again Initiatives. They are free to access–the archive site also includes a variety of supporting articles and other materials for the [...]
Nov
12
A Call to Men
November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Prevention Connection’s latest newsletter is pretty fantastic. It includes audio recordings from the 4th Annual A Call to Men conference (PDF), held last spring in NYC. If you’re not familiar with the project, A Call to Men “challenges men to reconsider their long held beliefs about women, in an effort to create a more just [...]
Oct
14
Preventing Violence
October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Prevention Institute has created a new resource on their website: Preventing Violence: Quick Links. It’s a “web-based compilation of practical, solution-oriented resources for communities working to prevent violence before it occurs“. You’ll find some great tools for community-wide planning and engagement. Best of all, if this is an area of interest for you, you [...]
Oct
13
Digital Safety: Cyberstalking
October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I love when readers (especially readers abroad) send me links I never would have run across otherwise: this summer in London, the UK hosted their inaugural digital safety conference, which “brought together thought leaders, policy makers, legal professionals, law enforcement agencies, government representatives, educators, industry leaders and those committed to protecting civil liberties to consider [...]
Oct
8
Engaging Men
October 8, 2009 | 3 Comments
An interesting coincidence (if you believe in those sorts of things) happened yesterday. I received an email from a reader asking about resources to engage men in ending violence against women; and I checked my Facebook page last night and saw that EVAW had posted some info about one of Canada’s latest campaigns to engage [...]
Sep
2
Preventing Sexual Violence in Children
September 2, 2009 | 1 Comment
I had a colleague ask me for some resources for training healthcare providers on child sexual abuse, and while this wasn’t a resource specific to her needs, it made me realize I’ve never posted it before. The American Academy of Pediatrics published a web-based sexual violence prevention program last year. There’s quite a bit of [...]
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