Jun
18
Sustaining Ourselves in the Work: Trauma-Informed Approaches, Self-awareness, and Self-care
June 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Hey–want to know something we suck at? Acknowledging and managing our own trauma from this work we do. Everyone I know in this field (including myself) could probably do a better job at the whole self-care thing. And if you’re a program manager, you especially need to be concerned about this issue, because it’s critical [...]
Jun
11
Girls at Risk: A Trauma-Informed Approach
June 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment
OJJDP is offering a webinar June 26th, Girls at Risk: A Trauma-Informed Approach. the session will be held from from 2-4pm ET (please note the 2 hour timeframe) and is free of charge.
May
30
Sexual Assault and the Military Patient
May 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment
The next SAFEta webinar is one near and dear to my heart: Sexual Assault and the Military Patient. It’s going to be held July 9th at 2pm ET. Sasha Rutizer is the featured presenter, and as an aside, she and I will be doing a live session together at the IAFN conference this year in [...]
May
29
Here’s an interesting one for those of us who spend a lot of time in court (or working to prepare others to testify): the National Child Protection Training Center is offering a webinar, Juror Expectations of Evidence in Child Maltreatment Prosecutions June 20th at 2pm CT. Cost for attendance is $30. From the website: Much [...]
May
28
These next two weeks are going to be weird–going to Asia turns my head inside out, so bear with me, please. We’ll start this short week off with a great webinar. Wish I had had more notice on this one, but hopefully some of you will still be able to attend. The National Health Collaborative on [...]
May
16
Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Considerations, Suggestions and Resources
May 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment
The Fenway Institute’s National LGBT Health Education Center is offering a webinar May 22nd at 2pm ET, Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Considerations, Suggestions and Resources. Information after the jump:
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
7
Understanding Evidence
May 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Have you seen the CDC’s new Understanding Evidence site? It’s specifically geared toward those of us who work in the area of violence, and really, please go spend some time with it. As a bonus–free nursing CEs upon completion of each module. If you’re not sure how to use the new interactive site PreventConnect has [...]
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 [...]
