Mark your calendar: the inaugural Forensic Journal Club is coming up 12 February. Find all the information you need to participate here.
Jewish Women International‘s National Alliance to Prevent Domestic Violence is hosting a webinar February 14th from 12-1:30 pm ET–Let’s Talk About Sex: Adolescents and Sexual Violence. Looks like the cost of the webinar (for non-members) is $25. CEs are available for social workers only.
From the site:
As February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, this webinar will focus specifically on adolescents and explore the unique needs, challenges and barriers facing teenagers as they navigate their relationships and sexual experiences. The presentation will offer best practices in discussing sex and sexuality with teens as well as working with teen victims of sexual violence.
By the end of this webinar, participants will:
- Understand the prevalence of teen dating violence and sexual violence within teen relationships
- Gain an understanding of the unique needs of adolescent victims of sexual violence
- Increase their comfort level discussing sex and sexuality with adolescents
Presenters
Mitru Ciarlante is a lifelong children’s advocate with more than 25 years of leadership experience developing youth outreach and advocacy programs and training multi-disciplinary professionals. She served as director of the Youth Initiative at the National Center for Victims of Crime for seven years and recently joined the Boys and Girls Clubs of America as Director of Child & Club Safety. Her accomplishments include creating a comprehensive children’s advocacy program, founding the Children’s Advocates’ Task Force of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, establishing the S.T.O.P Abuse (Students Together for Outreach and Prevention of Abuse) high school peer education program, and organizing the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape’s youth activist network, R.Y.O.T. Against Rape (Rallying Youth Organizers Together Against Rape).
Rachel Dart is a senior peer educator and senior trainer at the New York City Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence, where she facilitates workshops on dating violence for young people and trains staff and service providers on working effectively with teens in unhealthy relationships. Ms. Dart is also a sexuality educator for Sex Discussed Here. She is a graduate of New York University, where she worked as a sexuality educator through the NYU Office of Health Promotion’s peer education program, facilitating workshops on sexual health and safety as well as sexual assault awareness and prevention. Ms. Dart has also served as an emergency room advocate for the Mt. Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention program, providing crisis counseling to survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence.