The Tribal Forensic Healthcare project is offering a pediatric sexual assault case review webinar June 3rd from 3-4:30pm ET. Our friend Shalotta Sharp is the featured speaker. As always, CEUs and CMEs are available and it will be archived for future viewing.
Category: Child Abuse
Time once again for Articles of Note, my monthly stroll through the peer-reviewed literature. I probably say this every month, but there’s a lot of good stuff here, so make sure you follow links to the abstracts, decide for yourself what’s worth spending time on. Click through for both Word doc (with active links) and the printable PDF (good for staff meetings):
April is also National Child Abuse Prevention Month here in the US. There are several good resources available to commemorate the month, chief among them, DHHS’ 2015 Child Abuse Prevention Resource Guide. Looking for some continuing education on child abuse? Check out the archived offerings at a few of the following:
Sorry–late notice on this one (but it should be archived): OJJDP is hosting a webinar, Keeping Kids Safe: Preventing Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the United States. Again, a topic that we don’t see get much airtime, so I figured it was worth some space on the site. It’ll be held March 18th from 2-3:30pm ET. Click through for details:
Well, folks–week 2 of my San Antonio adventure begins. And as much as I like this city (and the lodging on post, which is nicer than a lot of other places), I am ready to sleep in my own bed again. Alas, not till Friday. Happily I had some down time over the weekend, exploring the city, stuffing myself with enormous Mexican breakfasts (both days) and being just a little lazy. Plenty of time to read and peruse my social media feeds, so here’s what caught my eyes since last we spoke:
My dear friend Val sent me this article and I thought it was such a fantastic read, I figured it would be of interest to FHO’s readers, as well. Enjoy a look at (or a listen to–there’s corresponding audio) this unique partnership between medical and law enforcement. And while we’re at it–can we talk about a doc who’s duel boarded in OB/GYN and pathology? Good stuff. It’s a great example of how expansive our role can be in addressing violence, limited only by our own creativity.
I am late in getting this posted–usually I have these ready to go 1st thing in the morning or even the night before. But my day got away from me, and then I had the opportunity to spend the evening dining with most cherished friends, so apologies to those of you who went searching for this post earlier today.
Lousy weather made it a good weekend to read, compounded by a cross country flight on Friday (in the middle seat). On top of that, there never seems to be a shortage of things to fuel the outrage, So here’s what caught my eye since last we spoke:
Time once again for Articles of Note, my monthly stroll through the peer-reviewed literature. As always, this isn’t an exhaustive list of must-reads, just the ones that I find to be particularly relevant. Click through for the full list:
For your viewing pleasure: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris talks about childhood trauma and its impact on health…There’s a lot to talk about here.
Sorry for the absence at the end of last week–the combination of making my way home from Anchorage and finally succumbing to the crud that’s been going around for weeks put me down for the count. But I’m back on my feet, to some extent, and the incredible cold this weekend had me happily hanging out and reading (Valentine’s Day be damned). Here’s what caught my eye since last we spoke:
I’m in Alaska this week, hanging out with some of my favorite people. As you know, I don’t work on planes (although I’m seriously productive in airport clubs), which left me plenty of time to read over this past week (if you’re playing along at home I was DCA-CLT-SAT-CLT-MGM-CLT-DCA-IAD-DEN-ANC over the past 7 days). That’s a lot of time for idle reading. I won’t bombard you with everything that caught my eye–just the most intriguing stuff since last we spoke:
Midwest Regional Children’s Advocacy Centers has an interesting webinar coming up with Dr. Carole Jenny: Medical Child Abuse and Medical Neglect–A Spectrum of Parent Behavior. The session will be held February 26th from 1-3pm CT. CMEs are available for physicians. Space is limited so register in advance (all webinars are archived, as well). Click through for a description:
Apologies for missing December’s edition (along with just about everything else in December), but we’re back with a packed Articles of Note for this month. Some of you probably roll your eyes when I get all geeked out about what’s in the literature, but seriously…there’s some good stuff here (I know–I say this every time). As always, this isn’t an exhaustive list, just what’s caught my attention in the peer-reviewed journals. Take note, there are a few free full-text ones (marked as such).
The pediatric offering from the Tribal Forensic Healthcare project this month is a pediatric sexual assault case review, led by Kim Nash. It will be held Monday, January 26th from 3-4:30pm ET. As with all of the webinars from this project, 1.5 CEUs are available.
I know that many of you are evaluating drug-endangered children as a part of your practice (or perhaps hoping to expand your practice to include this population), so here’s a brand new resource just out: A Circle of Healing for Native Children Endangered by Drugs is a new 7-part video series available from OVC. You can view portions of it online or order a copy of the full series. Click through for details:
Thanks to Sheila Early for this: Massachusetts General Hospital and the Massachusetts Medical Society have published Human Trafficking: Guidebook on Identification, Assessment and Response in the Healthcare Setting (PDF). It was published this fall, and although there are a few sections that are state specific, I would recommend this for clinicians regardless of geography. It’s worth your time to review.
I’m in Cleveland this week, having some much needed family time. With the holiday here in the US, postings will be on a modified schedule (I’m going to take Thursday and Friday off, so just 3 posts for the week). We’ll resume with regular posts next week, but fair warning–December is an ugly travel month for me, culminating in a court martial the week before Christmas, so we’ll just see how regular my posts are over the next 4 weeks. I had a little down time over the weekend to read and play catch up–here’s what’s caught my eye since last we spoke:
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See the Signs
There’s a new website, See the Signs that focuses on recognizing and responding to domestic and sexual violence. There are three online courses offered on the site: one about intervening to prevent domestic and sexual violence (created by the Ohio Domestic Violence Network and the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence); one about having conversations with teens about healthy dating relationships (created by Jewish Women International); and one on protecting children from domestic violence (created by the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children). I haven’t worked my way through the site or the courses yet, but I hope to at least spend some time with it over the holiday. I’ll be interested to hear what you think.
(h/t VAWnet)
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Means of Violence
The Institute of Medicine has an upcoming workshop, Means of Violence. It will be held December 18th and 19th in Washington, DC, beginning at 8:30 am. Although this will be a live workshop, there will also be a simultaneous webcast that will be available globally. Click through for details:
I just finished a really enjoyable week teaching an IPV course with forensic nurses in Indian Country. Part of the conversation was about co-occurring child abuse and child witnessing. Serendipitously, this publication showed up in my inbox this morning, and I’m working my way through it now. Ending Violence So Children Can Thrive (PDF) was just released by the US Attorney General’s Advisory Committee on American Indian/Alaska Native Children Exposed to Violence. It’s a pretty chewy document, so settle in.