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One of my favorite speakers, Dr. Sharon Cooper, will be presenting the pediatric webinar for January on Tribal Forensic Healthcare: Trafficking of Minors on Tribal Lands. The session will be held January 15th from 3-4:30pm ET. As with all offerings through Tribal Forensic Healthcare, CEUs are available and CMEs have been applied for.
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The DNA Resource Center is offering a webinar next week, Serial Offending and the Testing of Rape Kits. The session will be held January 14th at 11am. You can register here.
After a grueling week in trial, I was able to get back home this weekend to begin the holiday season in earnest. I had the overnight flight home from Honolulu, and thanks to an upgrade, actually slept the whole way back; I’ve been in a jet-lagged haze for the past 36 hours thanks to that questionable decision. So last night while unable to sleep I finally caught up on some reading (and some emails). Here’s what’s caught my attention since last we spoke:
The Tribal Forensic Healthcare project has another webinar coming up: Abuse Screening, Intervention and Documentation in the Health Care Setting. The session will be held January 24th at 3pm ET. CEUs are available; CMEs have been applied for.
Well, my friends, I am heading out the door bright and early tomorrow for a week of work in the Pacific. I will be putting in some guaranteed long hours so posts next week may be spotty. Please note that if you send me requests or questions I may be a bit delayed in responding, so thanks in advance for your patience. In the meantime, here’s this month’s Articles of Note. Some great stuff out this month, and even a few free full-text articles. There’s a lot to slog through, but I couldn’t help myself. Enjoy.
MNCASA’s Sexual Violence Justice Institute is offering a webinar, The Uniform Crime report Change in Definition of Rape: Updates and New Developments. It will be held January 13th from 12-1:30 pm CT. You can register for the session here.
I’m hanging out at the Army JAG school for a few days, teaching and waiting to hear if I will actually be on the road 2 days or 2 weeks (I could get excited about either, but I’m definitely feeling the pull of being home with my spouse). I could be headed to Hawaii at the end of the week, but that work is up in the air at this moment, so for now I am surrounded by ice and snow in Charlottesville, VA. Not a bad place to be, all things considered. The lousy weather that started yesterday certainly had us home-bound over the weekend, and left plenty of time for napping–and reading. So here’s what’s caught my eye since last we spoke:
Medscape has an overview of an article (recently published in Neurology), Brain Injury Lingers at Least 4 Months After Concussion, about the length of time it takes to fully heal from mild traumatic brain injury. As professionals caring for assaulted patients it’s certainly worth a read (and some ensuing discussion) considering statements such as this:
He said it was not possible from this study to give advice on how long the brain takes to return to normal. “But I would say that the current advice that the patient just sits out for a week is really not satisfactory. Our results suggest a much longer period is needed for healing. If it was my child with a concussion I would try and preclude activities that might result in another mild traumatic brain injury for at least a couple of months and probably longer.”
The Children’s Safety Network is hosting a webinar on December 11th: Leveraging Hospitals to Stop the Cycle of Violence. The session will be held from 2-3pm ET and is free of charge. Details after the jump:
I hope all of you who were celebrating the holiday(s) last week had a lovely time of it; we certainly did. And what a luxury to just take 5 days off, with minimal connectedness for most of that time. But today it’s back to my fully-plugged reality, and the sprint to get everything done before folks scatter during the last 2 weeks of the year. December means the end of a project; what appears to be the beginning of another; one more military trial; and some quality time with a few of my favorite JAGs. This week I’m home, though, which will hopefully translate to serious productivity and catching up on some reading. Speaking of which, here’s what’s caught my eye since last we spoke:
I’ll keep this brief, because I have much to do today and intend to take the rest of the week off (surrounded by family and eating my weight in Thanksgiving/Hanukkah treats). Also, we’re nursing colds in the FHO household right now, so some prescribed down time is in order. First things first: today begins the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender Violence Campaign. Head over to their site to read up on the campaign, get some ideas for how you can participate and check out their downloadable resources.
Yesterday, Polaris Project released a new report, Human Trafficking Trends in the United States. I know I am bombarding you guys with reading material, but let’s face it, I always bombard you guys with reading material, so, you know, consistency. There’s some pretty interesting data in this document, and for those of you with time or attention constraints, you can get get a good overview in the Executive Summary.
This week, the National Research Council released its report, Estimating the Incidence of Rape and Sexual Assault. The report looks at existing crime victimization surveys and makes recommendations on how to more accurately capture numbers of rape and sexual assault in the US. While this is a lengthy and chewy document, it’s certainly worth a review. You can read the press release here. Note that currently only uncorrected proofs are available for download.
There are so many projects happening at any given time that sometimes you forget some of them actually get completed. So I was pretty happy to see one that is particularly near and dear to my heart come to fruition today. Legal Momentum‘s National Judicial Education Project just released their newest model curriculum, Medical Forensic Sexual Assault Examinations: What Are They and What Can They Tell the Courts? Information about the curriculum after the jump:
An unexpected week at home means serious immersion into curriculum writing and some work for the military. There really is nothing so amazing as finding out that your week of travel is now being covered by someone else (although I am missing the opportunity to cross off my 50th state by staying home). Knowing I’d be home this week meant a low key weekend with plenty of time to read. So here’s what’s caught my attention since last we spoke:
I mentioned the MORE article in a recent Since Last We Spoke post, but yesterday, the survey they featured exploring the relationship between domestic violence and chronic health conditions was formally discussed at a Capitol Hill briefing sponsored by the magazine and the Verizon Foundation. As part of that briefing they also released a really nice executive summary of the study results (PDF). Trying to make a case to your hospital that your program should be responding to more than just sexual assault patients? Or are you trying to make the case to your organization’s administration or your funders that DV is a public health issue? Add this to your supporting documents. (You can also check out a report on the study by MSNBC here.)
Piggybacking on the release of this excellent document (at least in my mind–don’t know if that’s actually the way this was conceived), allow me to link you one of the newer elearning options available through NSVRC, Maturing Your Services: Advocating for Survivors of Sexual Violence in Later Life. Don’t let the word advocating put you off, healthcare people, this is for you, too. Details after the jump:
I am currently hopscotching my way back across the country after stealing a weekend with my spouse in Santa Fe (post-awesome week of SANE training in Montana). Plenty of time to catch up on some reading since I did not do anything even related to work while down there (hello Canyon Road., hello silver jewelry, hello green chile). Tomorrow I will be back at it, but for today I am hurrying up and waiting–a lot. So here’s what I’ve been reading (today) since last we spoke:
The Tribal Forensic Healthcare project’s pediatric webinar for December is Child Neglect: A Review. The session is being offered on December 2nd from 3-4:30pm ET and has CEUs available at no cost (CMEs have been applied for). Even if you don’t take care of AI/AN patients, these webinars are a great opportunity to enhance your skill set and get free CEs, so I encourage you to check them out.
Time once again for this month’s Articles of Note, a look at what’s new in the peer-reviewed literature. Naturally this isn’t a comprehensive overview, but simply the research that has caught my eye recently. What follows is a list of articles with links; contact me if you’d like the information in a word doc.