There’s been some interesting stuff in the news since last we spoke (I’m talking to you, Michigan). Click through for links, plus a new video from Half the Sky.
Category: Sexual Assault
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Untested Sexual Assault Kits
The National Center for Victims of Crime and the US Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women are hosting a webinar, Untested Sexual Assault Kits: Improving the Response to Victims Through Research and Technical Assistance Projects. The session will be held June 27th at 3:30 pm ET.
I am starting a regular Monday morning series here on FHO called Since Last We Spoke. Monday mornings are traditionally a slow time on this site, so I am going to be linking to some of the relevant stuff I have read over the weekend that you may have missed. With the #Sandusky trial starting today, the list is a bit heavy on that coverage, but there was a lot of interesting stuff online over the past several days, particularly related to sexual violence.
Making a Difference, a Canadian anti-sexual violence organization, is hosting a webinar: Working with Culturally Diverse Communities to Address Sexual Violence. The session will be on Wednesday, June 20th at 1pm ET. You can register here.
An excellent article on how emergency contraception does (and doesn’t) work in today’s NY Times. For all of us who talk to patients about this option, a worthwhile read for sure.
As promised, a clinical guide on issues related to testimony. Please let me know if I have left something out and it can be added in. Every attempt will be made to update this guide on a regular basis.
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SART Evaluation
One of my favorite questions to ask colleagues when we do a testimony training is, How do you know what you know? (followed closely by, Why do you do what you do?). In fact, I’ll ask those questions several times today in Kansas. So you can imagine my intrigue when I saw this webinar announcement in my inbox last night: What do you want to know and how would you find out? A fine question…
NSVRC has a brand new elearning opportunity available. The Brain, Body and Trauma is described on their site as “… an overview of the neurobiological and psychological implications of sexually violent trauma and the information and skills necessary for victim service providers to provide trauma-informed services.” You must register to access any of the elearning content, but there’s no fee for the course.
Time once again for Articles of Note, a tad late this month I realize. These are a selection from the late April/May/June new releases, and it’s a pretty varied bunch. As usual, this is not meant to be an exhaustive list, just the grouping that have caught my eye. All but one link lead to abstracts (the full-text article is marked), and from there you can decide what seems relevant and worth it to you.
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Trafficked
Don’t forget we have a giveaway going on through May 25th!
The BBC has a new 4-part series available online–Trafficked: Sex Slaves Seduced and Sold. It’s described as follows: “Every year thousands of women are forced into prostitution and traded from Mexico to the United States. The BBC investigates the sex trafficking business, which makes some men very wealthy at the expense of vulnerable young women.”
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VAWA Update Call
Don’t forget we have a giveaway going on through May 25th!
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.
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PREA Readiness
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!
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!
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.
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IAFN Webinar Series
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.
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.
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)
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.