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Stacey Mitchell
Virginia Lynch Pioneer in Forensic Nursing
Pamela Tabor
Distinguished Fellow Award
David Bernard
Patron Award
Anne McKibbin
Achievement Award
Winston Sayson
Vision Award
Patrica Speck
Ann Burgess Research in Forensic Nursing Award
These individuals will be celebrated or recognized (whichever you feel works best) for their continued efforts, accomplishments and dedication to the IAFN & the Forensic Nursing practice at the International conference on Forensic Nursing Science & Practice on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at the Hilton, Bonnet Creek, Orlando, FL.
Please join us in congratulating them!
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The Courier-Journal
State Auditor Adam Edelen said "the outrage is consistent" as he travels the state, seeking input from local leaders as part of his ongoing study to determine just how many sexual assault kits remain untested in Kentucky.
Edelen met with leaders in the Louisville criminal justice community to better understand how sexual assault investigations are handled locally.
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The Huffington Post
A new study released challenges experts' long-held notion that a majority of campus rapes are committed by serial predators.
Yet the research shows more men in college have committed rape than previously believed — and efforts to prevent sexual assault need to begin long before students arrive on campus.
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It's a deaf thing
For the first time, there is a hotline in the US that is staffed entirely by transgender people, to serve transgender people. Everyone in the trans community needs to be spreading this around. Lives could be saved.
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WTNH-TV
Renowned forensic expert Dr. Henry Lee, perhaps best known for his work on the O.J. Simpson case, says the investigation into human body parts found in New Haven requires an eye for detail and a team effort from police, medical examiners, and forensic scientists. Everything will have to be checked, including the brush where the legs were found.
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Psych Central
A new study has found that alcohol problems can be effectively reduced in homeless people with mental illness when they are given a place to live with no preconditions, such as sobriety or seeing a psychiatrist.
The approach, known as ‘Housing First,’ focuses on moving homeless people into independent and permanent housing as quickly as possible and then providing additional supports and services as needed.
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Barbados News Leader
A forensic nurse with training in managing hazardous situations says protocol was not followed at the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) headquarters on Wednesday night when authorities were investigating a suspicious package.
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NewsOK
Secrets are keeping us sick. Specifically, secrets related to past trauma are wreaking havoc on the bodies and brains of those who have been victimized at some point in life.
To be clear, trauma does not necessarily mean that something horrific had to happen to a person. Traumas can be big, but they can also be less obvious.
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The Irish Times
Author Michelle McDonagh writes: There is considerable variety in my working week as I have several roles, none of which is full-time. I am a consultant in infectious diseases (ID) and genitourinary medicine (GUM) at the Bon Secours Hospital in Galway and medical director and forensic medical examiner (FME) at Galway Sexual Assault Treatment Unit (SATU).
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KREM-TV
More than 70,000 kits across the U.S. containing evidence for sexual assaults and other crime have never been tested according to USA Today. National figures show at some police departments, only two in ten rape kits are sent to labs. However, a new law in Washington is changing how rape tests are handled.
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Inside Higher Ed
Last month, New York became the second state to require colleges to note on a transcript if a student was suspended or dismissed for sexual assault.
Though the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act is sometimes erroneously cited by colleges as preventing them from sharing such details on a college transcript, no laws prevent colleges from doing so. Few colleges are required to, however.
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Amarillo Globe News
Amarillo Police Department’s backlog of about 700 rape kits is almost gone as the agency awaits results from state and private labs.
At the beginning of the year, APD began sending about 150 of the kits to Texas Department of Public Safety and a second group of about 550 kits, some of which dated to the 1990s, to a private lab for testing.
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The Huffington Post
It was September of their sophomore year at Tufts University in 2012 when John Kelly went to a party and saw someone who had sexually assaulted them only two weeks earlier. The party was at a "queer student's apartment," said Kelly, who prefers the pronouns "they," "them" and "their" and who identifies as genderqueer, meaning their gender identity does not align with traditional binary definitions of male or female.
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Human Rights Watch
Israeli security forces have used unnecessary force to arrest or detain Palestinian children as young as 11. Security forces have choked children, thrown stun grenades at them, beaten them in custody, threatened and interrogated them without the presence of parents or lawyers, and failed to let their parents know their whereabouts.
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Argus Leader
A woman and man were walking together in downtown Sioux Falls around noon one day.
They were near the 10th Street viaduct when the man, who the woman knew, pulled a knife and raped her, right there, in broad daylight, she told police.
She went to a hospital, and a trained nurse collected evidence for a rape kit — bits of hair, clothing, DNA, anything that might help prosecute her attacker.
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To prevent sexual assault, start early
The New York Times
With the issue of sexual assault becoming more visible on campuses, colleges are trying a variety of approaches to addressing the problem. One recent study of Canadian universities found that teaching female freshmen risk assessment and self-defense techniques reduced their risk of being assaulted. Other experts have argued that such programs need to reach all young people, including boys, much earlier than college.
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