Category: Sexual Assault

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.

The Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault is hosting a webinar April 7th: the Intersections of Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking (apologies for the late notice–I just caught wind of it). The webinar will begin at noon (MDT) and last for an hour. Registration can be completed here.

I’m so happy to be able to return with a wrap up from the sustainability site. Feels like it’s been too long, but with all the travel, it sometimes gets the short straw. Aside from a brief mention of our current giveaway, this week also featured:

• *Some available online courses on leadership excellence (complete with CEUs!)
• *Suggestions on giving feedback to your boss–good stuff, for sure…

It’s spring here in the 216 and I am hoping to get some quality time outdoors in the next week. After that I begin the great Spring Midwest Tour of 2010. WY, IN and ND readers, hopefully I will be seeing some of you in the course of my travels.
For all of you who celebrate, have a happy Easter; my family and I will be taking advantage of everyone being in town to (finally) hold a Seder on Sunday.

Enjoy your weekend, whatever your plans! And check back next week for our April installment of Articles of Note…

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and here at FHO, we’re pretty interested in what you’re doing in your own communities to commemorate the month, or the specific Day of Action, April 20th. Leave a response here to this two-part request (both parts must be answered to be eligible) and one random reader will receive a $50 Amazon.com gift card:

April 20th is Sexual Assault Awareness Month’s Day of Action. This year’s theme is preventing sexual violence on our campuses. Hopefully you have thought about how you would like to commemorate this day, but if you haven’t, NSVRC has some fantastic suggestions for you. Although it’s just under a month away, there’s still time to make this day impactful. I would really love to see clinicians participating in some way, because prevention is a critical part of our role.

MNCASA‘s Sexual Violence Justice Institute is hosting the last of a 4-part series on the SART Protocol Development Cycle, Monday April 26th at 12pm CT: Monitoring Progress and Evaluating Success for SARTs and Other Multidisciplinary Teams Responding to Sexual Violence. Participation is free, but preregistration is required.

The Stalking Resource Center will be hosting a free webinar on stalking and sexual assault April 9th at 2pm ET. Be forewarned, this offering will be capped at 100 people, so if you’re interested in attending, register ASAP. “Research indicates that there is a connection between stalking and sexual assault -both pre- and post-assault…

I am very honored to be the consultant on some exciting research being conducted by Dr. Rebecca Campbell and colleagues at Michigan State University. If you are interested in participating in a project that will assist you in evaluating the efficacy of your program on criminal justice outcomes, please read more about how to apply, after the jump: