There’s been some interesting stuff in the news since last we spoke (I’m talking to you, Michigan). Click through for links, plus a new video from Half the Sky.
The CDC’s next Public Health Grand Rounds, Breaking the Silence–Public Health’s Role in Intimate Partner Violence Prevention, will be held Tuesday, June 19th from 1-2pm EDT. The session will be archived, so if you can’t make the live webcast, you’ll have opportunities to view it later on. You can find the archived previous webcasts here (including one last month on the emerging issue of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea).
June 15th is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD). Several activities (of which I am aware) are going on to commemorate the day. Click through for more information.
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Sustaining Quality Programs
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is hosting a webinar, Effective Strategies to Help Sustain Your Quality Programs. The session will be held June 27th from 3:30-5 pm ET, but it is limited in size so if you’re interested, I’d recommend registering ASAP.
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Untested Sexual Assault Kits
The National Center for Victims of Crime and the US Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women are hosting a webinar, Untested Sexual Assault Kits: Improving the Response to Victims Through Research and Technical Assistance Projects. The session will be held June 27th at 3:30 pm ET.
I am starting a regular Monday morning series here on FHO called Since Last We Spoke. Monday mornings are traditionally a slow time on this site, so I am going to be linking to some of the relevant stuff I have read over the weekend that you may have missed. With the #Sandusky trial starting today, the list is a bit heavy on that coverage, but there was a lot of interesting stuff online over the past several days, particularly related to sexual violence.
Time to release your inner geeks, my friends, because we have data! And you all know how much I do love data –this week in the form of the CDC’s 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance. The latest MMWR has the summary (PDF), which looks at 6 different categories of health-risk behavior in youth grades 9-12, including behaviors that lead to unintentional injuries and violence, as well as sexual behavior.
Making a Difference, a Canadian anti-sexual violence organization, is hosting a webinar: Working with Culturally Diverse Communities to Address Sexual Violence. The session will be on Wednesday, June 20th at 1pm ET. You can register here.
An excellent article on how emergency contraception does (and doesn’t) work in today’s NY Times. For all of us who talk to patients about this option, a worthwhile read for sure.
As promised, a clinical guide on issues related to testimony. Please let me know if I have left something out and it can be added in. Every attempt will be made to update this guide on a regular basis.
The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury have a webinar coming up this month that readers may be interested in (and CEU and CMEs are available!). Intimate Partner Violence: What Health Care Providers Need to Know is being offered June 28th from 1-2:30pm ET. I have exactly zero info on who’s teaching, the objectives, etc., but we can go ahead and assume this is particularly relevant to those of you who care for active duty military personnel and their families, along with veterans. Registration information can be found here.
(Today is my 43rd birthday…when I got home from Kansas this morning, this is what I discovered in my fridge, because my partner is a clown.)
VAWnet has a new special collection available, Enhanced Services to Children and Youth Exposed to Domestic Violence: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned. Considering the conversation we just had at this week’s training on the issue of child witnessing, the timing couldn’t be better.
Have a great weekend, all.
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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.)
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.)
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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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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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.