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Check out the latest addition to IAFN's Online Learning Center: Intimate Partner Violence/Strangulation Case Review.
Members: Take advantage of our Members-Only "10 days for $10" promotion. Purchase in the first 10 days (before April 24, 2017), and this one-hour session will cost only $10 for members.
The first quarter of 2017 has started with a bang! The Association recognized several of our members highlighted in local newspapers. These members and their teams are making a difference in their communities and paving the way for global awareness in the field of forensic nursing. Anne Boatwright, Nancy Downing, Angela F. Amar & L. Kathleen Sekula, Susan Johnson, Kathy Howard, Mary Thompson, Tisha Scheuer, Patti McFadden, Lori Moynihan, Tami Grewell, and Mary Ann Ordelt have received prestigious recognition for the work they do. IAFN thanks you. Check out their stories in the Member Community and on our Facebook page. If you know of a member that has made headlines, please share it with us.
Please take a moment and login to your profile and update your information. We encourage you to fill out the Professional information area too so we can make sure you are getting the best value in your membership.
IAFN is working on a lot of great educational offerings and resources. Our preferred method of communicating these benefits to you is through email, weekly-newsletter, and website. Please login today. If you don’t know your username and password, please email Marisa Raso.
Do you know someone who ... demonstrates innovative & creative methods to promote and enhance forensic nursing? How about made significant contributions to the development of FN? Or maybe someone who has worked with other organizations/ disciplines to set standards of practice for patients of violence? Than why not nominate them for the Virginia A. Lynch Pioneer in Forensic Nursing Award? Nominate now or click here for more information.
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Providing comprehensive health care to survivors of sexual assault is critical to minimizing the long-term consequences of this traumatic experience. That is where a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) can help. This session will focus on how to start or improve a SANE program in your community with OVC’s SANE Program Development and Operation Guide.
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CBC News
Health Canada is sending rape kits to reserves in northern Ontario amid complaints from Indigenous leaders that they lack the resources to properly investigate cases of sexual assault — a widespread problem in Indigenous communities.
Only about 60 per cent of northern Ontario communities have the kits — a vital forensic tool for investigating assaults — despite Health Canada assurances to the contrary, said Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler.
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The Huffington Post
During a call with hundreds of students on Wednesday afternoon, Joe Biden described the sexual assault epidemic on college campuses his “greatest heartache.”
The former Vice President hosted the call on behalf of his sexual assault awareness and prevention organization It’s On Us, which he started with former President Barack Obama in 2014. Biden spoke passionately about how important it is that we all work to combat sexual violence against women and girls.
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USA Today
In the year since the last Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the public may have become more "aware" of the issue than ever before, due in part to several watershed moments that have sparked national dialogue.
"In the past year it was a topic that came up in so many ways and forms, and there was a lot of public awareness and outrage, ranging from the Stanford rape case all the way to our own national election," said Laura Palumbo of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.
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The Baltimore Sun
State lawmakers are poised this week to pass legislation that will require police in Maryland to keep rape kits for 20 years.
But what to do with the kits remains a topic of considerable debate. Advocates for victims and others say testing all rape kits is the right thing to do for victims, and will get more rapists off the streets.
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The Daily Mail
David Schwimmer has collaborated on a new short film series that depicts what sexual harassment really looks like — which includes talking about grabbing women by their genitals.
The Friends star, 50, teamed up with a friend, Israeli-American director Sigal Avin, who wrote and directed the original series on sexual harassment to be distributed in Israel late last year.
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AdWeek
Facial recognition software has come a long way since researchers began programming computers to pick out human features in the mid-’60s.
A recent project by the Berlin offices of DDB in collaboration with women’s rights group Terre Des Femmes found a new, shocking application for the technology: highlighting the prevalence of domestic violence.
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Rewire
In Reproductive Justice: An Introduction, Loretta J. Ross, a co-creator of the term reproductive justice and co-founder of the Atlanta-based SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, and Rickie Solinger, a renowned historian of reproductive politics, team up to offer high school and college students an introduction to reproductive justice.
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Safe Space
April 26 is Denim Day, a day to show your support for victims of sexual assault by wearing jeans.
By signing up to wear jeans on April 26, you are choosing to recognize sexual assault is an issue that affects everyone and that it is time to take a stand.
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The Gonzales Inquirer
Victims of sexual assault are now able to see a medical professional locally. Gonzales Regional Advocacy Center, otherwise known as Norma's House, has set up a Sexual Assault Nurse Examination (SANE) suite at Gonzales Community Health Center.
The heavily credentialed nurse working with Norma's House to provide these examinations, Noella Hill, is a Registered Nurse (RN), Certified Adult Certified Pediatric (CACP), Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE), Certified Forensic Nurse (CFN). She has been an RN for 22 years, working in SANE cases for 10 years and working with Norma's House for seven years.
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PR Newswire
Nearly 100 forensic nurses from across North America gathered on Capitol Hill on April 4, 2017 to discuss key issues related to the health and recovery of patients who have experienced violence and trauma.
Forensic nurses are an essential component of healthcare's response to violence and trauma, yet less than 14% of U.S. hospitals have a forensic nurse on staff. Concerned about access to care, the International Association of Forensic Nurses' (IAFN) legislative priorities this year include funding for vital programs such as the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the Justice for All Act and efforts that address the broad healthcare needs of patients who've experienced sexual assault on campus.
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