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SART Evaluation

One of my favorite questions to ask colleagues when we do a testimony training is, How do you know what you know? (followed closely by, Why do you do what you do?). In fact, I’ll ask those questions several times today in Kansas. So you can imagine my intrigue when I saw this webinar announcement in my inbox last night: What do you want to know and how would you find out? A fine question…

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Who Will Show Up?

Greetings from Lawrence, Kansas! Medscape has a reprint of an interesting article from the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing: Who will show up? Estimating ability and willingness of essential hospital personnel to report to work in response to a disaster [Adams & Berry, Online J Issues Nurs. 2012;17(2)]. A worthwhile read for those of you who include disaster response planning as part of your gig.

(BTW, I couldn’t help notice another article while perusing Medscape with the provocative title, Dr. Douchebag: A Tale of the Emergency Department. It’s a good read, and I have no doubt many of you will be able to relate, regardless of your discipline.)

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Child Abuse Sexual Assault

The Brain, Body and Trauma

NSVRC has a brand new elearning opportunity available. The Brain, Body and Trauma is described on their site as “… an overview of the neurobiological and psychological implications of sexually violent trauma and the information and skills necessary for victim service providers to provide trauma-informed services.” You must register to access any of the elearning content, but there’s no fee for the course.

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Happy Weekend (sigh)

My soldier-partner is at home this weekend, and coincidentally so am I, so for the 1st time since March we will have an entire 4 days together. Our weekend will be cooking, organizing and gardening (with extra time built in around naps and dog-walking). Here’s hoping you’re filling your weekend with whatever will feed your soul. For those of you who have an extended holiday weekend, have a safe, relaxing and happy one. I will be taking Monday off, but please come back on Tuesday for a fantastic e-learning opportunity.

(And for a moving read on the Memorial Day holiday, please check out this NY Times article.)

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Articles of Note: May Edition

Time once again for Articles of Note, a tad late this month I realize. These are a selection from the late April/May/June new releases, and it’s a pretty varied bunch. As usual, this is not meant to be an exhaustive list, just the grouping that have caught my eye. All but one link lead to abstracts (the full-text article is marked), and from there you can decide what seems relevant and worth it to you.

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Sexual Assault

Trafficked

Don’t forget we have a giveaway going on through May 25th!

The BBC has a new 4-part series available online–Trafficked: Sex Slaves Seduced and Sold. It’s described as follows: “Every year thousands of women are forced into prostitution and traded from Mexico to the United States. The BBC investigates the sex trafficking business, which makes some men very wealthy at the expense of vulnerable young women.”

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Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma

Don’t forget we have a giveaway going on through May 25th!

The CDC has just released a new publication for all of my peds colleagues out there: Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma: Recommended Definitions for Public Health Surveillance and Research (PDF). Aside from the succinct overview of the problem and accompanying references that always are useful to have close by, it has quite a bit of information on appropriate ICD-9 coding that should be helpful to some of you manager and data collection types:)

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DV/IPV Sexual Assault

VAWA Update Call

Don’t forget we have a giveaway going on through May 25th!

For those of you US readers interested and able to participate, the White House is hosting a phone conference Thursday, May 24th at 12:30 EDT to provide “an update call on the Violence Against Women Act, with Lynn Rosenthal, the White House Advisor on Violence Against Women, and other Senior White House Officials.” Click through for information on how to participate, along with links to recent White House blog posts on VAWA.

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Sexual Assault

Best Practices to Combat Human Trafficking: Public/Private Partnerships

Don’t forget we have a giveaway going on through May 25th!

The  Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School has a free webinar coming up next week. Best Practices to Combat Human Trafficking: Public/Private Partnerships will be offered May 22nd from 9-11am ET. Click through to read more about the webinar. And coincidentally, my organization, AEquitas, just published a new issue of Strategies on a similar topic: Enhancing Prosecutions of Human Trafficking and Related Violence Against Sexually Exploited Women.

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Sexual Assault

PREA Readiness

Don’t forget we have a giveaway going on through May 25th!

The National PREA Resource Center and the Vera Institute are hosting a webinar: PREA Readiness (PDF). It will be held May 22nd from 12:30-2pm ET. Register for the session here. Read more about PREA here.

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Healing Trauma’s Invisible Wounds

Don’t forget we have a giveaway going on through May 25th!

I didn’t realize, but May is Mental Health Month. Mental Health America has a new toolkit available, Healing Trauma’s Invisible Wounds, which “focuses on the impact of traumatic events on individuals and communities.  It centers around asking the person-based question: ‘What happened to you?'”

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Sexual Assault

Farmworkers and Sexual Violence

Don’t forget we have a giveaway going on through May 25th!

Human Rights Watch has released a new report, Vulnerability of Immigrant Farmworkers in the US to Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment. A quote from the press release that I found particularly important to consider:

“Hundreds of thousands of immigrant farmworker women and girls in the United States face a high risk of sexual violence and sexual harassment in their workplaces because US authorities and employers fail to protect them adequately, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The current US Senate bill reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) would go some way toward fixing the problem and should be enacted, but much more needs to be done, Human Rights Watch said.”

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Fighting Back

Don’t forget we have a giveaway going on through May 25th!

I’m headed to Flagstaff for what looks to be a pretty fantastic day of training with AZ nurses, so just a quick post today on an article in the New Republic about domestic violence homicides and use of the Danger Assessment titled Fighting Back. It’s a good and quick read.

Get more info about the Danger Assessment here.

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Sexual Assault

Suicidality Within the Context of Sexual Assault

Don’t forget we have a giveaway going on through May 25th!

This is a really fantastic topic for a webinar–hopefully it’s not too late to register. The Massachusetts Department of Health’s Suicide Prevention Program is offering a free webinar on May 18th. When Sexual Assault Survivors Call: Suicidality Within the Context of Sexual Assault will be held from 1-2:30pm. Registration is required by the 16th, though, so don’t wait.

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Child Abuse DV/IPV Sexual Assault

IAFN Webinar Series

Don’t forget we have a giveaway going on through May 25th!

IAFN has announced its 2012 webinar series. Webinars are $15 each for members ($30 for non-members) and will garner nurses 1 CEU. Click through to see the schedule and (awesome) topics.

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New Giveaway: Sexual Assault 2-Volume Set

Our friends at STM Learning have given us another book (or in this case, set of books and companion CD-ROM) to giveaway to one lucky FHO reader. Click through for more information, including details about how to enter.

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Innovation

Last night I was able to spend some quality time on the phone with one of my most trusted and cherished friends. Val has always supported my wild and seemingly improbably ideas, and has a penchant for pretty expansive thinking in her own right. So it isn’t surprising that we spent some time talking about innovation and the importance of always moving forward. It reminded me of something I read this week in the Harvard Business Review, which really spoke to me:

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Child Abuse Sexual Assault

Child Sexual Abuse: Health Consequences and Role of the Health Care Provider

The National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse is offering a webinar May 23rd from 11-12:30 PDT. Child Sexual Abuse: Health Consequences and Role of the Health Care Provider is being presented by Judith Cohen, MD, Medical Director, Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents at Allegheny General Hospital and Professor of Psychiatry, Drexel University College of Medicine; David L. Corwin, MD, Professor and Chief, Child Protection and Family Health Division of the Pediatrics Department, University of Utah School of Medicine; and Robert Sege, MD, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine.

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Family Violence Prevention and Health Practice e-Journal

The Spring 2012 edition of the Family Violence Prevention and Health Practice e-Journal is now available. Published by Futures Without Violence, it’s worth a once-over. Click through for this issue’s contents and links. I was particularly interested in the 1st one.

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Happy Nurses’ Week

Our friend, Jen posted this on Facebook and it was simply too on point not to share. Happy Nurses’ Week to all of my friends and colleagues around the globe.