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The IAFN's Spotlight-on-a-Member Project provides a befitting recognition to some of our forensic nursing colleagues and what motivates their dedication and commitment to forensic nursing.
 Please join the Membership Committee in recognizing Khara Breeden
LOCATION: Houston, Texas, USA
WORK SETTING: She currently is full-time in academia educating future nurses
FORENSIC NURSING EXPERIENCE: Khara has been a forensic nurse for 4.5 years
YEARS OF IAFN MEMBERSHIP: 4.5 Years
Do you know another IAFN member who is extraordinary? A member who makes a difference in their patients’ lives? Go ahead and nominate them for IAFN’s Spotlight-on-a-Member Project.
 We are proud to announce that the Florida Coalition Against Sexual Violence’s 40-hour Adult SANE course is officially approved by IAFN! Prospective students can confidently register for this course, knowing that it fully meets the IAFN Education Guidelines. Submit your own course for expert review and approval today.
Submit your nomination no later than April 28, 2017. Nominate someone today.
Need help deciding which award your nominee qualifies for? Checkout the Association's Awards Purpose and Criteria and to see a listing of previous award winners, please visit the Awards and Recognition webpage.
The Dispatch
When she opened the door, he shoved his way into the house. He grabbed her by the hair and dragged her across the floor. When he came to a stop, he wrapped both hands around her throat and began to squeeze.
He squeezed until she began to lose consciousness. He told her how easy it would be to kill her — to kill her family — like this.
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OVW
April 19, 2017: Registration due
May 3, 2017: Applications due
Eligibility: Indian tribal governments with jurisdiction over Indian Country
Download the solicitation, and read it carefully.
NIJ
Learn about the NIJ National Sexual Assault Policy Symposium held in September 2016 from its audience members and organizers. The Symposium focused on how the nation is moving forward and finding solutions to the complex issues that arise in sexual assault cases and in testing sexual assault evidence.
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The Ladies Finger
oreign Policy has a new map of countries that permit marital rape, or offer rapists a way to avoid punishment (including by marrying the rape survivors). It’s based on data taken from ‘The World’s Shame: The Global Rape Epidemic,’ published by Equality Now, which surveyed lawyers from 82 jurisdictions across the world.
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NCJTC
Provides an overview of trauma-informed techniques for communicating with victims and survivors of sex trafficking. Gather strategies for building rapport and fostering open communication for the various professionals that victims of sex trafficking interact with in justice, advocacy, and recovery.
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The Atlantics
Reports of sexual assault increased last year on two out of three military college campuses in the U.S., according to data recently obtained by the Associated Press. Reported instances of sexual misconduct also spiked across all three military academies.
The two campuses that experienced a rise in reported assaults — the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York — also saw the largest increases in sexual misconduct.
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Wired
For years, Facebook has been investing in artificial intelligence fields like machine learning and deep neural nets to build its core business — selling you things better than anyone else in the world. But earlier this month, the company began turning some of those AI tools to a more noble goal: stopping people from taking their own lives.
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Dallas Morning News
For victims of sexual assault, ensuring law enforcement has enough evidence to identify their attackers can be a distressing and painful process.
"It's traumatizing, humiliating and incredibly lengthy," said Kristen Lenau of The SAFE Alliance, an Austin-based resource for victims of child abuse, sexual assault and domestic violence.
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The Hans India
The U.K. government is overhauling its rape laws to allow alleged rape victims to pre-record their evidence and spare them from cross-examination in open court.
U.K. justice secretary Liz Truss said that such schemes of pre-recording testimony before the trial piloted in three cities showed they led to a higher level of "early guilty pleas".
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