Category: Sexual Assault

It’s a very busy time here at FHO. I am always traveling, but these next 3 weeks will be a beast as I head to Twin Falls, Idaho this week, followed by Misawa AFB in Japan, and then Portland, OR, with less than 24 hours at home between each trip. So until I am back home for good (and when I say for good, I mean a week) on November 10th, please bear with me as I try to figure out what time zone I’m in. If I don’t respond to your emails as quickly as usual, just know that I will get to them. Promise.

Some interesting stuff on my twitter feed and in my in-box lately. A lot of business-y things, but the core ideas have real relevance to the work we do, so I include those along with the other more obviously related stuff. Here’s what I’ve been reading since last we spoke:

The Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault is offering a webinar on October 18th from 12-1:30 MDT, Reproductive Coercion: An Introductory Train-the-Trainer Webinar. Click through for a full description of the session:

Although we were happily celebrating repeal in my household, plenty of other topics were front and center in the media this weekend. Much of my focus has been trained on the hashtag #SGSGlobal (the Social Good Summit going on through today); check out that and the the other items grabbing my attention since last we spoke:

A new report is out from the Bureau of Justice Statistics: Prevalence of Violent Crime Among Households with Children, 1993-2010. From the site:

The report estimates the number of children age 17 or younger living in households in which at least one household member age 12 or older experienced violent crime during a given year. As defined in NCVS, nonfatal violent victimizations include rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault. Estimates of the number of children are provided by age of children (ages 0 to 11 and ages 12 to 17), type of crime, and location of the crime. The report also examines households that experienced violent crime by whether children lived in the household, type of crime, and location of the crime. Data on victimized households by type, composition, and characteristic are also presented.

October 10th is Health Cares About Domestic Violence Day, and Futures Without Violence will be hosting a webinar as part of the day’s events. School-based Health Services, Adolescent Health and Anticipatory Guidance for Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault will be held from 9-10:30 am PT. Cumbersome title aside, it should be a good session that’s very clinically focused. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear that CE/CEUs are available.