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WYFF-TV
Advocates say a tracking system for sexual assault evidence in South Carolina would give survivors peace of mind.
The victims of those crimes would always know where that evidence is, from hospital to law enforcement to crime lab.
Advocates say the system would also add transparency to a system that can operate on a slow timeline, with the evidence testing process taking weeks and months to complete.
The South Carolina Senate now has a bill that would require the State Law Enforcement Division to create and operate that system. The legislation passed the House unanimously in May 2019.
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March 12, 2020
PREA - Demystifying the Medical Forensic Exam
This webinar will demystify the Sexual Assault Forensic Examination for corrections and community professionals who are responsible for protecting, advocating for, and assisting inmate, detainee, and resident victims and survivors.
March 17, 2020
Exam Adaptations for Survivors with Disabilities
This webinar will review the unique needs of survivors with disabilities and explore best practices for completing medical forensic exams to ensure a safe and accessible experience for all.
March 20, 2020
Service Animals and the Medical Forensic Exam
When a survivor of sexual assault presents to a healthcare facility for a medical forensic exam, and has a service animal - are you prepared to provide care to that patient? This webinar will; 1. Increase familiarity with survivors with disabilities and their use of service animals. 2. Analyze the legal rights of service animal handlers 3. Consider the complexities of working with survivors who have service animals 4. Outline some adaptations that might be helpful to employ in the exam process.
April 27, 2020
Support Animals and Service Animals are different?
Therapy and emotional support animals are different from service animals. There are differences in the roles they perform and the legal protections that are in place. How can you tell the difference? What impact can this have on the survivor? What policies should your program have in place to address both types of animals?
May 8, 2020
Interpreting Toxicology and Alcohol/Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault
Forensic Nurse Examiners (FNEs)/Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) receive general training on the basics of toxicology testing, but often lack understanding of the physiology of intoxication, the absorption, distribution, and excretion of alcohol and drugs from the body, the effects of proper education delivered to patients, and the associated costs to conduct toxicology testing. Join us for a 90-minute webinar to learn more!.
The Denver Channel
“A lot of people don’t know what they’re allowed to receive, what they can receive, what they can ask for. That’s the best part about being a SANE nurse, is giving my patients that choice and that right back. And letting them know what is available to them,” UCHealth SANE nurse Tammy Scarlett said.
Tammy Scarlett has been a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner for nearly five years. She currently works at UCHealth Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She says she treats both men and women of all ages, but a majority of her patients are adult women.
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The New York Times
Say you are found on your bathroom floor, on the grassy knoll of someone else’s front yard, in the berth of your tractor-trailer, in your own bed, at the foot of a bridge, under a car wheel, in the car, caught in the bend of a river, collapsed in the bar, alone in the remains of a scorched kitchen. Your death is sudden and unexpected, a death that no one plans for but that approximately half a million of us will experience this year in America. No death is special, but this kind of death requires special care, procedurally, from a number of people you will never meet. The procedural aspects of your death, which you will never see, begin with a phone call.
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ProPublica
Last September, Sue M., a 53-year-old who works in corporate communications, got matched with a man on the online dating platform PlentyofFish. The middle-aged restaurant manager asked her to dinner in Providence, Rhode Island. But their date would end before Sue got a chance to finish the Diet Coke she had ordered.
Sue, who asked that her last name remain confidential, remembers her PlentyofFish date suggesting they leave. He drove her to a nearby parking lot, pulled her breasts out of her shirt and forced her to masturbate him. She says she yanked her hand away and convinced the man to let her go.
Sue didn’t think to report the incident to PlentyofFish until the man texted her while she was with her niece. “I knew u were with your relative,” he wrote her, “but at least I could have called and say hi and I see u online.”
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Purdue University via Medical Xpress
The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology recommends universal sexual violence screenings during routine visits. Although one in three women in the United States experience sexual abuse, research has shown that these discussions often don't take place.
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Penn Nursing
While firearm violence is a major public health challenge in the United States, it has often been considered a law enforcement issue with only law enforcement solutions. An article by two University of Pennsylvania researchers advises that treating firearm violence as a disease and taking a public health approach to prevention and treatment can help reduce its harms.
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Al-Jazeera
The 1,758-kilometre border between Nepal and India has always been known as one of the busiest human trafficking gateways in the world.
Since a 2015 earthquake in Nepal — which killed nearly 9,000 people, severely disrupted social and economic structures, and sank scores into destitution — the numbers have risen sharply, with thousands of Nepalese being trafficked across the border and vanishing, never to return.
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CNBC
A coalition of tech companies is backing new principles put forth by five governments to prevent the spread of online child exploitation.
The organization, which includes Facebook, Apple, Google and Twitter, committed to promoting the new voluntary standards that outline how the industry should consider survivors’ needs and safeguard certain features such as livestreaming.
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CBC
There is no one profile or description that fits all victims of intimate partner violence, but Michele Markham says the public often envisions young women.
She urges people to consider another demographic she says is often overlooked.
"So many times I have heard people say, 'Oh I didn't realize that elder abuse was a thing,'" said Markham, manager of Sage Seniors' Safe House in Edmonton, Canada.
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CU Anschutz Medical Campus via Medical Xpress
Newly published research by a CU School of Medicine faculty member and colleagues identifies multiple ways that healthcare providers and organizations can improve the quality of care provided to trafficked children.
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CBC
Winnipeg police are trying to break the cycle of violence by placing some abusers in programs, rather than in jail.
The goal is to put a dent in the approximately 16,000 calls involving intimate partner violence that the Winnipeg Police Service receives every year. Those calls result in about 2,000 arrests each year, according to Det. Sgt. Susan Desjardine.
Those numbers have remained relatively constant for the past two decades, despite a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to charging abusers.
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Yale School of Public Health via Medical Xpress
Over 30 percent of injury survivors who are treated in hospital emergency departments will have moderate-to-severe symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder at some point in the first year following the initial incident, new research led by the Yale School of Public Health finds.
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National Post
Workers in British Columbia affected by domestic or sexual violence will be eligible for up to five days of paid leave a year under legislation that amends the province’s Employment Standards Act.
The legislation would also give the parents of children harmed by domestic or sexual violence the same paid leave.
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The Guardian
Girls are far less likely to get married or drop out of school than ever before, but worryingly high rates of obesity, suicide and sexually transmitted infections underline how uneven global progress has been for them over the past 25 years, according to a report published on March 4.
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Wiley via PhysOrg
To quickly identify victims of the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in California's history, researchers used a technique called Rapid DNA Identification that can provide results within hours, compared with months to years required of conventional DNA analysis. As reported in the Journal of Forensic Sciences, Rapid DNA Identification was used in a rented recreational vehicle outside the Sacramento morgue. Sixty-nine sets of remains were assessed, and of these, 62 generated DNA profiles that were screened against 255 family reference samples. In total, 58 victims were identified using Rapid DNA.
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Yale University via ScienceDaily
Mice exposed to stress in the womb and soon after birth can expect a lifetime of immune system deficiencies that hinder the ability to ward off infections and cancer, Yale University researchers report March 5 in the journal Cell.
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