Category: Sexual Assault

Don’t forget, we have a fantastic giveaway going on right now! Just leave your comment here to enter. Loving all the comments thus far!

Our friends at EVAW have some new resources for their Forensic Compliance project. You can head over to their website for a variety of tools and materials, but what’s particularly exciting are the new template materials for anonymous sexual assault reporting. I know a lot of folks are struggling with this issue in their communities, so definitely check these out.

I just posted this yesterday to the Sustainability site:

SAFEta Source is hosting a free webinar on SANE program peer review that is a must for anyone running a program. Particularly if you are struggling with how best to set up a peer review process or have not yet considered the benefits of peer review. The webinar will be held June 22nd at 2pm ET. Advanced registration is required to attend.

The Washington Violence Against Women Network is hosting a webinar, Confronting Sexual Violence on College Campuses. The featured speaker will be Dr. David Lisak (see related posts here and here). Space is limited and I guarantee this one will fill, so if you’re interested get registered soon.

For those of you who’ve asked about whether the alcohol facilitated sexual assault webinar happening tomorrow will be recorded, because you’ve been closed out of it, never fear. A 2nd session has been added for May 28th at 1pm ET. You can see all the details at our site, and register for the session here.

I am pleased to announce AEquitas‘ next webinar, Investigating and Prosecuting Alcohol Facilitated Sexual Assault. Chris Mallios, one of our Attorney Advisors, will be presenting. The session will take place May 14th from 2-3:30 pm ET, and registration is free.

Last chance to to partake in our latest $50 Amazon.com giveaway in honor of SAAM. To enter just let us know in the original post’s Comments section how you commemorated any day during SAAM, and one inspiring aspect of the day or the event you attended. You have until May 4th to be eligible.

The Oregon Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Task Force is hosting a two-part webinar this month, Addressing the Demand of Sex Trafficking. The featured speaker will be Rus Ervin Funk, co-founder and Executive Director of MensWork.

I love when my worlds coincide. When unexpectedly you find colleagues from disparate parts of your life sharing the same space. Such was the case Friday, when my local NPR station hosted a show on law enforcement sensitivity. Imagine my pleasant surprise to hear both Bertina King, a detective with the Akron Police Department (the jurisdiction where my clinical practice is housed), and Kim Lonsway, Director of Research at EVAW talking with Regina Brett on her show, The Sound of Ideas.

Sometimes the peril of travel is things sit in the queue and are forgotten for a few days. Like this video clip that Amanda Hess over at The Sexist posted last week of Dr. David Lisak talking to CBS about “acquaintance rape” (not a fan of the term, but better than the dreaded “date rape”). Many of you know Dr. Lisak’s work, The Undetected Rapist (see NJEP’s site to order the DVD), so I thought you might find it interesting to view this short clip, which originally aired in November, 2009.

A couple of webinars are now available as archived presentations on the topic of victim-centered sexual assault care. My good friend Kim Day who runs the SAFEta project at IAFN had a hand in both: one is Victim Centered Care (w/Laura Williams from MNCASA) and was mentioned last month. You can visit the original post to link to the playback site.

Don’t forget about latest $50 Amazon.com giveaway in honor of SAAM. To enter just let us know in the original post’s Comments section how you commemorated any day during SAAM, and one inspiring aspect of the day or the event you attended. You have until May 4th to be eligible.

Today is the SAAM Day of Action, and I am happy to spend it in Wyoming with a fantastic group at their Sexual Assault Summit (IX). Among the topics I’ll be teaching today: SANE Sustainability (and I’ll post a set of slides for those of you wanting them) and Effectively Using Medical Experts and Medical Evidence in Prosecuting Sexual Assault Cases. Two of my favorite sessions to deliver for sure. Since I don’t teach for a few more hours, I figured I’d take some time to give you 10 things on my mind as I do my part to honor this day:

1. Continue reading “SAAM Day of Action: 10 Things On My Mind”

It’s been a brutal week for me personally, and I don’t have much for readers today. The sustainability site has been quiet but for a grant tutorial that might be helpful. However, I do have a great audio file from The Moth that might be of interest. I’ll look forward to hearing your thoughts…

I will miss many of you at EVAW next week. I’ll be in Wyoming and North Dakota with a few of my partners from AEquitas teaching at a couple conferences. This year is one of the first EVAW conferences I have missed, and I am a little bummed to be sure. Many of my friends and readers will be there–have a glass of wine for me.

It’s going to be a long weekend here in the CLE. Hope yours will be less challenging. See you all back here on Monday.

In sexual assault care, we often provide emergency contraception to patients. But being able to explain exactly how it works is difficult, since that point remains somewhat ambiguous. Medscape has a new article posted on this subject that’s worth a read. It’s free to access once you’re registered, and it’s reprinted from the current issue of Pharmacotherapy. While it doesn’t definitively answer the ultimate question, how do they work?, the information is useful and contains specific recommendations for clinicians.

Don’t forget about latest $50 Amazon.com giveaway in honor of SAAM. To enter just let us know in the original post’s Comments section how you commemorated any day during SAAM, and one inspiring aspect of the day or the event you attended. You have until May 4th to be eligible.

The Department of Defense’s Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury will be hosting a webinar on sexual assault and sexual trauma in the military. The webinar will be held April 22 from 1-2:30pm ET.