Category: Sexual Assault

Let’s just keep going with the research article theme for the week: new research published out of the UK that caught my attention. A shared data approach more accurately represents the rates and patterns of violence with injury assaults was recently published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. From the abstract:

[The purpose of this study is] to investigate whether sharing and linking routinely collected violence data across health and criminal justice systems can provide a more comprehensive understanding of violence, establish patterns of under-reporting and better inform the development, implementation, and evaluation of violence prevention initiatives.

This is a good article for discussion at SART meetings, and for communities considering how they gather (and share) violence statistics. It’s available free, full-text online.

Our first offering in the FHO store, Injury Following Consensual Sex is now available. If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, you can find it here.

Greetings from an airplane somewhere between Houston and Portland, where I’ll be teaching the next few days. As part of my current reading list, I have several articles from the latest edition of the Journal of Forensic Nursing, which I thought I’d bring to your attention. Although I will likely do an Articles of Note post next week, there are a couple items that seemed worthy of highlighting in the new issue of JFN. Of particular interest (to me):

• Lessons Learned From iCare: A Postexamination Text-Messaging-Based Program With Sexual Assault Patients 
• Increasing the Accessibility of Sexual Assault Forensic Examinations: Evaluation of Texas Law SB 1191

There’s also a fascinating CE article I’m looking forward to reading: Global Voyeurism or Sustainable Ethical Practice?

JFN is, of course, free to IAFN members (which I hope most FHO readers are at this point). To access the content as a member, enter the Journal sight via the IAFN website. Otherwise, the above links will take you to the abstract pages, where you can either purchase online or access via your institution’s library.

Our first offering in the FHO store, Injury Following Consensual Sex is now available. If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, you can find it here.

January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. NCJRS has a special collection now available with a variety of resources for service providers. They include both NIJ-funded research and DOJ publications, so there’s a lot to wade through. Worth the time, though–plenty of good stuff there for your next staff meeting, for instance 😉

Our first offering in the FHO store, Injury Following Consensual Sex is now available. If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, you can find it here.

The Tribal Forensic Healthcare project has a webinar coming up, Project Connect: Improved Care for Sexual Assault Patients. The session will be held February 5th at 11am ET. As with all offerings from this project, CEUs and CMEs are available. Register here.

From the announcement:

This webinar will discuss how to create partnerships between victims of violence and public health fields to improve health outcomes with safety and patient-centered care. Topics covered will include: Educating providers and public health professionals on assessment and intervention; Building partnerships with regional or tribal DSV programs; Evaluating progress and more!

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Our first offering in the FHO store, Injury Following Consensual Sex is now available. If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, you can find it here.

WCSAP has a great sustainability webinar coming up, for all of you program managers (or aspiring program managers): Building and Empowering Your Staff to Increase Your Agency’s Organizational Capacity. The session will be held January 24th at 1:30pm PT. As you may already know, recruitment and retention are two of the biggest challenges for forensic nursing programs today, so I encourage folks to invest their time and resources in this area. From the announcement:

The Silence Breakers are TIME's Person of the Year 2017 #TIMEPOY https://t.co/mLgNTveY9z pic.twitter.com/GBo9z57RVG

— TIME (@TIME) December 6, 2017

Vera Institute is hosting a webinar next month, Surviving in the Shadows: Sexual Violence Against Men with Disabilities and Deaf Men. The session will be held December 12th at 1pm ET. From the website:

Male survivors face unique obstacles when trying to access sexual assault and domestic violence services. When the survivor also has a disability or is Deaf, the barriers are compounded, making it even more difficult to access services. This webinar will provide service providers with insight into the victimization of men with disabilities, explore the unique barriers that male survivors with disabilities face when trying to access services, address some unanswered questions and gaps that need further study, and provide recommendations for better serving male survivors with disabilities and Deaf male survivors.

Register here.

Our first offering in the FHO store, Injury Following Consensual Sex is now available. If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, you can find it here. 

What could be more timely than this? NSVRC has released the Key Findings of the Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace (PDF). The study brief covers the major findings from a year-long look into harassment in the workplace by the EEOC. [The EEOC, of course, is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency charged with enforcing federal labor laws that prohibit workplace discrimination.] Terribly current, indeed.

You can read the full EEOC report here.

I am so thrilled about the response to our first offering in the FHO store, Injury Following Consensual Sex. If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, you can find it here. For those of you outside the US, I have fixed the glitch that would not allow you to purchase it. Please let me know if you have further issues. 

The National Criminal Justice Training Center has an upcoming webinar, Human Trafficking: Inside the Survivor’s Mind. The session will be held November 15th at 2pm ET. I do not know if they will archive it–you will need to contact them directly to find out. From the site:

The session will:

Explain the definition of sex trafficking and describe why this is a serious problem that needs our attention. Demonstrate why victims are not often identified as we look at a survivor’s police record to show the invisible signs of trafficking. Review and understand the mind of a survivor. Describe complex PTSD and why a survivor does not run from her trafficker, understand how resilience helps in recovery, and what the recovery process looks like.

Register here.

First, let me say, you guys are the best–you flooded my inbox with your thoughts about a fee-based research overview (and peppered the site with a couple comments, too 🙂 ). BTW, there’s still time to provide some feedback and be eligible for the $50 Amazon gift card. Thanks to everyone who has shared their opinions/suggestions thus far.

Speaking of research [sort of], NSVRC has a new eLearning course, Evaluation 101: Prep, Analyze, Visualize Your Data. It’s a great opportunity to immerse yourself into the evaluation process (maybe you want to look at issues like impact of patient services or training events). They’ve created a brief video to get you started, then head to NSVRC’s eLearning site to register (the whole thing is free).

Don’t forget, if you’re interested in evaluation, particularly as you look at impact of your patient services, we also published the toolkit for SANE programs that provides a step-by-step guide.

Raliance, a national partnership between the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, PreventConnect (a project of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault), and the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence has a new report available–Ending Sexual Violence in One Generation: A progress report for the United States 2017. It’s a really interesting read, including a look at both policy and research/evaluation for the year. And while you’re at it, check out the project site itself.