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- Aug. 10: will be How language shapes our response to sexual violence
- Nov. 1: will be A team approach: Child life's role in pediatric sexual abuse cases
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How often are you asked “How can I become a SANE?” Here is a quick and easy guide that you can text, email, Tweet, post on Facebook and even Instagram.
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Alabama Public Radio
A national news story may help to spark change in Tuscaloosa. Work is underway to offer a new service following the suicide of former University of Alabama student Megan Rondini. APR Student reporter Katie Willem has more on the program called SANE…
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By Joan Spitrey
 In the early morning hours Friday, the Senate narrowly rejected the Republican plan to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act. While the country's leaders stayed up late to debate one of the most impactful pieces of legislature in U.S. history, thousands of healthcare workers continued their work caring for their patients through the night. Despite the dramatic vote, care continued and nurses went about their routines, just as they do 24 hours a day.
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San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco police collected 178 rape kits during the first six months of this year — an average of one a day — and sent all of them to be tested for DNA evidence. It’s a high standard that lawmakers want to replicate statewide.
The push stems from public outrage over the thousands of untested rape kits found in police storage rooms across the country in recent years, many having languished for more than a decade as victims remained in the dark about the status of the physical evidence taken from their bodies.
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Northern Kentucky Tribune
Kentucky Justice Secretary John Tilley announced today that more than $1.9 million in funding is available through the STOP Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Grant Program.
VAWA STOP funds may be used to develop and strengthen effective law enforcement, prosecution, judicial strategies and victim services throughout Kentucky in cases involving violent crimes against women. That includes domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and dating violence.
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The Washington Post
The 2001 attack was vicious. In August, a 31-year-old Memphis woman was walking along Thomas Street, an empty stretch of road drilling through an industrial area north of downtown. A man approached, forced her off the road, and stabbed a metal object up under her chin so hard it stuck to the roof of her mouth. Then according to Memphis’s Fox 40, the unknown assailant forced the unnamed victim to perform oral sex.
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The Bradford Era
Bradford Regional Medical Center received the 2017 Community Champions Award from the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania for its outstanding efforts to improve healthcare in the state and specifically for its effort to protect victims of interpersonal violence.
BRMC, the only hospital in Northwestern Pennsylvania to be recognized, was chosen for its entry, “Trauma Informed Healthcare: A Rural Community Response to Interpersonal Violence,” which highlighted the work of its sexual assault program.
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NJ Advance Media
A risk assessment tool New Jersey's attorney general has instructed police and prosecutors to use after domestic violence incidents combines 13 items meant to gauge the potential for future assaults.
The law enforcement officers ask the victim whether the alleged abuser has a substance abuse problem, tried to trap her during the assault or threatened to kill her, among several other things.
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The Topeka Capital-Journal
A statewide working group examining why more than 2,200 sexual assault kits, which could link offenders to rape cases, weren’t submitted for testing have identified four core factors. The Kansas Sexual Assault Kit Initiative’s 22-member multidisciplinary working group found that a lack of training, resources, policy and societal awareness contributed to the problem.
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Law Street
Survivors of sexual assault could receive around-the-clock access to a specialized medical examiner if a bill proposed by a Texas congressman passes.
Representative Ted Poe (R-TX) introduced a bill on July 26 that would require hospitals to provide access to sexual assault forensic examiners (SAFEs) or sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) for survivors of sexual violence. SAFEs and SANEs are specially trained examiners who are certified to provide forensic examination to survivors of sexual assault.
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