The Tribal Forensic Healthcare project (full disclosure: I’m a consultant) is hosting a webinar July 18th at 3pm ET, Creating Bridges of Trust Through Cultural Competency in the Indian Healthcare Response to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. Attendance will net you 1.5 CEUs (CMEs are also in the process of being obtained), free of charge, so this is an awesome opportunity for great training [Cordelia Clapp, RN, BSN is the featured speaker] AND credit hours for your recertification or licensure (or just general edification).
From the site:
Join us to gain a better understanding of the culture in the American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities in addressing sexual assault and domestic violence. Historically, AI/AN people have experienced mainstream health care systems in varying ways. This sometimes resullts in distrust in the system’s ability to provide them confidential and culturally competent care. Distrust may come from misunderstanding the role of modern medicine versus traditional healing, or not understanding the effects that historical trauma, its impacts, and its modes of transmission across generations has imposed on the American Indian/Alaska Native Communities. This session will help providers recognize why AI/AN women often suffer in silence by not reporting or speaking about the victimization. Additionally, it will emphasize that each survivor that is a victim of sexual assault will experience both the abuse and the health system in culturally specific ways by addressing stereotyping AI/AN through cultural sharing.
Check out other upcoming webinars (along with live events) here.