A couple of webinars are now available as archived presentations on the topic of victim-centered sexual assault care. My good friend Kim Day who runs the SAFEta project at IAFN had a hand in both: one is Victim Centered Care (w/Laura Williams from MNCASA) and was mentioned last month. You can visit the original post to link to the playback site.
Don’t forget about latest $50 Amazon.com giveaway in honor of SAAM. To enter just let us know in the original post’s Comments section how you commemorated any day during SAAM, and one inspiring aspect of the day or the event you attended. You have until May 4th to be eligible.
Today is the SAAM Day of Action, and I am happy to spend it in Wyoming with a fantastic group at their Sexual Assault Summit (IX). Among the topics I’ll be teaching today: SANE Sustainability (and I’ll post a set of slides for those of you wanting them) and Effectively Using Medical Experts and Medical Evidence in Prosecuting Sexual Assault Cases. Two of my favorite sessions to deliver for sure. Since I don’t teach for a few more hours, I figured I’d take some time to give you 10 things on my mind as I do my part to honor this day:
All kinds of good new stuff in our Canada section today. Make sure you check it out!
It’s been a brutal week for me personally, and I don’t have much for readers today. The sustainability site has been quiet but for a grant tutorial that might be helpful. However, I do have a great audio file from The Moth that might be of interest. I’ll look forward to hearing your thoughts…
I will miss many of you at EVAW next week. I’ll be in Wyoming and North Dakota with a few of my partners from AEquitas teaching at a couple conferences. This year is one of the first EVAW conferences I have missed, and I am a little bummed to be sure. Many of my friends and readers will be there–have a glass of wine for me.
It’s going to be a long weekend here in the CLE. Hope yours will be less challenging. See you all back here on Monday.
JWI‘s National Alliance to End Domestic Violence is hosting a webinar on intimate partner homicides and familicides, Wednesday, April 21st at 12pm ET. It’s $25 to attend (free, though if you’re a member). Featured speakers are Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell and Dr. David Adams.
In sexual assault care, we often provide emergency contraception to patients. But being able to explain exactly how it works is difficult, since that point remains somewhat ambiguous. Medscape has a new article posted on this subject that’s worth a read. It’s free to access once you’re registered, and it’s reprinted from the current issue of Pharmacotherapy. While it doesn’t definitively answer the ultimate question, how do they work?, the information is useful and contains specific recommendations for clinicians.
Don’t forget about our latest $50 Amazon.com giveaway in honor of SAAM. To enter just let us know in the original post’s Comments section how you commemorated any day during SAAM, and one inspiring aspect of the day or the event you attended. You have until May 4th to be eligible.
Sorry for another last minute post, but Peace@Work is hosting a free threat assessment webinar on April 15th, at 2:30 ET. I don’t have a whole lot of details, but I’ll assume the focus is on workplace violence, including domestic violence in the workplace based on the host organization.
The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape will be hosting a webinar on the links between sexual abuse and online sexual behaviors of adolescents, May 13th, 10:00-12:00 ET. Participation is free, but preregistration is required. Jennifer Lee from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children will be the featured presenter.
Time for April’s Articles of Note. All of these are from the late March/April/May issues and electronic previews. As always, please keep in mind this in no way a comprehensive list; simply items that have caught my attention from a selection of peer-reviewed journals. Links lead to PubMed abstracts; from there you can choose what’s worth a.) paying for; b.) a pilgrimage to your nearest medical library; or c.) downloading via the full-text access you possibly have at your disposal.
I’m remiss in not getting this posted last week, but it’s been flagged and in my pile, so I knew I’d get it up here one of these days. My memory was jogged by a related resource newly released, though. So now we’ll make this a tandem event. NCVC and the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs published a joint study on LGBTQ crime victims, Why It Matters: Rethinking Victim Assistance for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Victims (PDF). It’s available as a free download, and addresses, among other things, LGBTQ intimate partner violence. Worth a read.
I had a note show up in my inbox today about using social media. Specifically, I was asked the following: “My program coordinator strongly discourages being on Facebook and believes we shouldn’t use it if we are going to practice in this field. Thoughts?” Yeah, I have a couple…
Don’t forget about latest $50 Amazon.com giveaway in honor of SAAM. To enter just let us know in the original post’s Comments section how you commemorated any day during SAAM, and one inspiring aspect of the day or the event you attended. You have until May 4th to be eligible.
The Department of Defense’s Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury will be hosting a webinar on sexual assault and sexual trauma in the military. The webinar will be held April 22 from 1-2:30pm ET.
The Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault is hosting a webinar April 7th: the Intersections of Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking (apologies for the late notice–I just caught wind of it). The webinar will begin at noon (MDT) and last for an hour. Registration can be completed here.
I’m so happy to be able to return with a wrap up from the sustainability site. Feels like it’s been too long, but with all the travel, it sometimes gets the short straw. Aside from a brief mention of our current giveaway, this week also featured:
It’s spring here in the 216 and I am hoping to get some quality time outdoors in the next week. After that I begin the great Spring Midwest Tour of 2010. WY, IN and ND readers, hopefully I will be seeing some of you in the course of my travels.
For all of you who celebrate, have a happy Easter; my family and I will be taking advantage of everyone being in town to (finally) hold a Seder on Sunday.
Enjoy your weekend, whatever your plans! And check back next week for our April installment of Articles of Note…
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and here at FHO, we’re pretty interested in what you’re doing in your own communities to commemorate the month, or the specific Day of Action, April 20th. Leave a response here to this two-part request (both parts must be answered to be eligible) and one random reader will receive a $50 Amazon.com gift card:
I know health literacy and written communication is not the sexiest topic in the world. But here at FHO, we’re pretty committed to making sure all of our patients receive the highest quality, targeted healthcare services. This means that when we’re discharging patients, they receive materials that allow them to best understand how to care for themselves once they leave our charge. That’s part of what separates us from forensic evidence techs, after all.
Like many of you, I get a ridiculous amount of email. Much of it gets deleted without reading (not the mail from individuals, but the updates from organizations and agencies, which are often sacrificed for the sake of simply managing my workload). However, I try to always at least skim the mail from the Family Violence Prevention Fund. Which I did this morning, sipping jasmine tea and actively procrastinating completing a few expense forms that need to get done.
Check out your page for new info…Thanks, Sheila!
I received an email from a reader asking me to please post information about the financial cost of child abuse in the US. I’m happy to be able to post some relatively recent publications on the topic, the most specific being Prevent Child Abuse America’s 2007 report, Total Estimated Cost of Child Abuse and Neglect in the United States: An Economic Impact Study (PDF). (UPDATE: Click through for more current resources)
The University of Washington’s School of Nursing has created an online course for healthcare providers: Domestic Violence (DV): Recognizing and Responding to Victims and Perpetrators in the Health Care Setting. There are 2 modules–one on recognizing and responding to perpetrators, the other focused on victims. Modules are $10 a piece, and award 1 CEU each.