Category: DV/IPV

Futures Without Violence has an upcoming webinar, Campus Sexual and Dating Violence: The Role of Campus Health Centers. The session will be held August 8th at 1:30pm ET. CMEs are available for physicians, but sadly, it doesn’t look like nursing CEUs are available for this one. From the announcement:

Intimate partner and sexual violence (IPV/SV) is highly prevalent on college campuses, impacting student health and educational attainment.  Campus health centers are a vital component of campus-wide efforts to prevent and respond to IPV/SV.  Though survivors are often discouraged from reporting or discussing their experiences through traditional pathways, health care providers on campuses are in a unique position to be able to offer support, as well as to provide universal education to all patients about healthy relationships and how violence can affect health and academic performance. This session will provide tools and resources for campus health center staff to address (IPV/SV) in their clinical practice, as well as engage in a range of campus-wide efforts. Presenters will outline best practices for implementing a comprehensive IPV/SV protocol that includes staff training, routine assessment in clinical encounters, student outreach, and partnership with other campus departments and community-based victim services providers.

This webinar is co-hosted by Futures Without Violence Health Resource Center and the American College Health Association.

As a result of attending this webinar, participants will be better able to:

• Discuss the impact of IPV/SV on health and educational attainment
• Implement a universal safety card-based intervention to prevent and respond to IPV/SV within their campus health center
• Utilize the ACHA Addressing Sexual and Relationship Violence: A Trauma-Informed Approach toolkit
• Identify next steps in preparing their campus health center to address IPV/SV

Register for the webinar here.

Have you checked out the FHO store lately? You can find our newest research brief, Aging Bruises Based On Color, plus our original guide, Injury Following Consensual Sex. Both available now for electronic download.

EVAW has a webinar coming up that should be of interest to many of you–Community Informed Risk Assessment: Intimate Partner Violence, Including Sexual Assault.  The session will be held July 25th at 12pm ET. From the announcement:

Course Description

This webinar will address the origins, development, and science of the Arizona intimate Partner Risk Assessment Instrument System (APRAIS) as an example of community informed risk assessment. Presenters will explore the deployment of the tool and its accompanying protocols in the fields of law enforcement, victim advocacy, and the courts. Of paramount importance are respect for the autonomy, dignity, informed consent, and liberty rights of victims, the due process rights of suspects, and the need to be candid and transparent about the limited predictive capabilities of all risk assessment tools that screen for future threats of intimate partner violence (IPV). 

This includes an assessment of sexual assault committed within the context of IPV, often referred to as intimate partner sexual assault (IPSA).  While the obstacles victims face in reporting IPV are significant, there are additional risks of disclosing IPSA.  This disclosure can be particularly humiliating to the victim, as well as the abuser, and it can be confusing to victims when consensual sex is mixed with the threat of sexual violence.  When law enforcement identifies IPSA as a risk factor for possible future re-assault or severe re-assault, it may help victims make the decision to access services and begin the road to recovery from the abuse

Objectives

At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be better able to:

1. Develop a coordinated community response to IPV risk assessment, including an assessment for IPSA, and incorporate in the justice system response.  
2. Explore how a risk assessment tool like APRAIS can help law enforcement to work with victims of IPV / IPSA, increasing both victim cooperation and access. 
3. Design and implement training on IPV / IPSA risk assessment, including uses, risks, and benefits.  
4. Explain how the use of a validated risk assessment can increase victim access to services, improve decision-making throughout the system, and enhances safety for victims of IPV / IPSA.

The speakers are Dr. Neil Websdale and Greg Giangobbe. Register here.

Have you checked out the FHO store lately? You can find our newest research brief, Aging Bruises Based On Color, plus our original guide, Injury Following Consensual Sex. Both available now for electronic download.

Before I head out of the country for the week, I leave you with newly published data from the CDC’s National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2015 Data Brief. There’s a lot of information to sort through, but a few highlights:

• In the U.S., over 1 in 3 (36.4% or 43.6 million) women experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime.
• In the U.S., about 1 in 3 (33.3% or 37.2 million) men experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime.
• Both women and men experience these forms of violence, but a greater number of women experienced several types of violence examined. For instance, during their lifetime, 1 in 5 women experienced completed or attempted rape; 1 in 6 women were stalked; and 1 in 4 experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner and reported some form of intimate partner violence-related impact.

Read the full data brief here.

Our first offering in the FHO store, Injury Following Consensual Sex is now available. If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, you can find it here. 

VAWnet has a new collection available: Safety and Privacy in a Digital World. If you’re not sure what this has to do with a clinical forensic practice, please remember that many of our patients use digital technology to stay connected to and discover new resources and sources of support; many of our patients are controlled by or exploited with digital technologies; and for some of our patients the digital technology is the form of abuse. The onus is on forensic clinicians to understand the myriad ways technology can both hurt and help our patients, so I encourage you to spend some time with the collection.

Our first offering in the FHO store, Injury Following Consensual Sex is now available. If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, you can find it here. 

The Center for Survivor Agency and Justice is hosting a really compelling webinar (that I wish I could attend–hopefully it’ll be archived)–From Margins to Center: A Video Dialogue and Report. The session will be held January 18th at 1pm ET. From the announcement:

CSAJ and Partners on the Racial & Economic Equity for Survivors Project (REEP) are thrilled to announce the release of a report and host a video dialogue with From Margins to Center Listening Sessions on January 18th!

Throughout September, we held seven Listening Sessions in order to create a dialogue across the field to inform survivor-driven systems advocacy and practice recommendations that enhance racial and economic equity for domestic and sexual violence survivors. Calls were held with: advocates of color who also identify as survivors; attorneys sitting at unique intersections of law who are people of color and/or aspiring white allies; and economic justice or policy staff from state and tribal coalitions who are people of color and/or aspiring allies.

We are excited and honored to host a video conversation to lift-up voices from the Listening Sessions and to dialogue-back with the field about racial equity for survivors. 

Register for the webinar here.

Our first offering in the FHO store, Injury Following Consensual Sex is now available. If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, you can find it here.