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Don't forget about IAFN's Online Learning Center . Archived webinars are available 365 days a year, 24 hours a day so you can enhance your education when it's convenient for you.
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The Early Registration rate is $525 USD for Members and $654 USD for Nonmembers. Early registration ends July 31. This is a four-day conference and registration includes continental breakfast and three lunches.
New for 2015 - A multidisciplinary series for non-nursing professionals who work with SANEs is being introduced and includes sessions on "Behind Closed Doors--Commercial Sex Trafficking of Children", "Y Change? Forensic Nursing Practice Implications of Touch DNA and Y-STR DNA Analysis Methods", and "Organizing and Transferring SANE/SAFE/SART Knowledge and Best Practices: Stepping into the Future", to name a few. Join nurses, researchers, educators, legal professionals, and multidisciplinary partners as they share their knowledge and expertise through cutting-edge presentations.
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Texas Observer
New studies show that trauma biologically alters the brains of young boys in ways that affect their adult behavior. Of the 41 inmates who responded to an informal Observer survey, 22 of them (54 percent) reported have violent or abusive childhoods. An additional nine inmates (22 percent) described their childhoods as “hard,” or said they had some sort of dominant negative issue
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KTBS
Governor Jindal signed four bills into law that will further protect and support victims of sexual assault. Over the past nine months, the administration collaborated with victims' advocates, legislators, law enforcement and Department of Health and Hospital officials to produce a detailed plan to address concerns regarding the provision of services following a sexual assault.
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Prevent Connect
Adriana Rocha, Director of Grants & Capacity Building at Just Beginnings Collaborative speaks about the upcoming funding opportunity to address ending child sexual abuse. Just Beginnings Collaborative is asking for Letters of Intent to be submitted by July 17.
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Huntington News
Marshall University Forensic Science Center DNA Analyst Misty Marra is passionate about providing training and education to professionals who are involved with responding to sexual assault crimes. Marra expanded her outreach efforts outside of her position at MUFSC in 2013 by using her expertise as a forensic DNA analyst to serve in the role of faculty in the SANE-SART On-line + Clinical Program, delivering training nationwide and internationally.
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Vermont's NPR News Source
There is a problem in many areas of the country with backlogged, un-tested sexual assault kits. This doesn't seem to be a huge issue in Vermont, says the director of Vermont's Forensics Lab, where the current backlog of un-tested kits is 39.
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L'Oeil de la Photographie
Luce Lebart is a photography historian and the director of the collections of the French Society of Photography. She has worked on several exhibitions, including Preuve par l’image in 2002 at the Fondation Claude Verdan, and on the book Le théâtre du crime "the theater of crime".
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WCNT
According to Greenville Police, there have been sixteen rapes reported in the community since this time last year. But numbers show only four rapes reported the year before. That’s a 300 percent increase.
While that figure may seem daunting to some, Greenville Police attribute the uptick to more people coming forward about sexual assault — not more incidents actually occurring.
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CDC
The purpose of this online training program is to educate nurses and their managers about the health and safety risks associated with shift work, long work hours, and related workplace fatigue issues and relay strategies in the workplace and in the nurse’s personal life to reduce these risks.
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Psych Central
A new review of social media studies suggests children and adolescents who reported being bullied online are at an increased risk for depression.
Currently, the median percentage of children and adolescents who reported being bullied online is 23 percent, say researchers from the University of Alberta, Canada.
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PBS
In 2008, the government began offering a new category of visas for undocumented victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking and other serious crimes, as long as they cooperate with authorities in the investigation. Known as the U visa, it’s the only real protection that these women have.
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Office For Victims Of Crime
The summer edition of OVC News & Program Updates is now available online. Read a message from Director Joye Frost, review the Vision 21 grant awardees, and learn more about the impactful work OVC is doing on behalf of victims and victim service providers.
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