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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.
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.
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.
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?'”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
The Disability and Abuse Project is asking people to complete their survey. From their call for participants:
This is the first national survey of its kind — one that focuses on incidents of, response to, and attitudes about, abuse or crime victimization of children and adults with disabilities.
(Click through to read more about the survey)
I love that the US Department of Health and Human Services is hosting this webinar (as part of Healthy People 2020): Spotlight on LGBT Health: Transgender Health Issues. If your knowledge of how to best assess and care for transgender patients is lacking, this looks like it will help fill the gap. The webinar will be held May 8th from 1-2:30 EDT. You can register here.
VAWnet has a new special collection–Ending Violence Against Women Globally: International Policies, Programs and Approaches. What a fantastic compilation of resources on prevention and response to gender-based violence around the world.
The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center is hosting a webinar on May 9th from 1-2:30 MDT, Legal Barriers to Justice for Native Women. From the site:
Federal law prohibits tribal governments from prosecuting non-Native offenders, and only allows tribal governments to punish Native people for minor offenses. This lack of serious enforcement authority goes to the systemic root of the problem for tribal governments and Native non-profit organizations working to end violence against Native women in their communities.
Register for the session here.
Since the webinar I’ve had many questions about some of my go-to resources and general tips about testifying. So here are some of the things I think are important about testimony. But keep in mind, these are just *my* 10–I know that many FHO readers have plenty of experience with testimony, so please add your tips (shy people), to make this an even richer discussion.
The National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma and Mental Health is offering a new webinar: Helping Children and Teens Cope with the Effects of Domestic Violence. The session will be held May 3rd from 2-3:30 CT. It’s aimed at both advocates and parents, but I think there are some useful tools for healthcare providers here, too.
UPDATE: VAWA PASSED THE SENATE!
If you’re in the US (and I suppose even if you’re not), you’ve probably been watching the debate around the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act with some interest. The White House Blog has a new post written by Lynn Rosenthal and Kimberly Teehee that specifically addresses the tribal jurisdiction provisions that seem to be one areas of consternation for some lawmakers. In their post, they concisely lay out the case for why these provisions should be in place.