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This event will be held Sept. 22-23, 2015 in the WHO Executive Boardroom in Geneva, Switzerland. The scope of the 7th Milestones Meeting includes child maltreatment; youth violence; intimate partner violence; sexual violence, and elder abuse.
The meeting will focus on consolidating global, regional and national efforts to strengthen violence prevention policies, programs and laws. During the meeting, they will make plans to increase action, political support and funding for violence prevention worldwide. Keynote speakers will include senior government policy-makers and world experts.
This event is on the heels of the IAFN Board's review of the WHO's draft global plan to strengthen the role of the health systems to address interpersonal violence. The plan focuses on violence against women and girls, and against children. The Board of Directors reviewed the draft plan and submitted comments. It is a very exciting project and we seek to be part of the plan's development, and provide valuable forensic nursing science input into the final product.
Please join us in wishing Sheila safe travels and thank her for representing IAFN and our members in this important event.
 This year, Forensic Nurses Week will take place Nov. 9-13. We hope that you will share your passion of forensic nursing with your communities.
Visit the IAFN Marketplace to order your complimentary Forensic Nurses Week Poster before we run out.
Nurses working at IHS or Tribal Facilities are encouraged to check out this opportunity to spend 3 days gaining hands on experience with Pediatric Patients. Training is available at Our Kids in Nashville, Tennessee, or Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas.
This training is limited to healthcare providers employed by a Tribal or IHS facility who have already completed their 40 hour Pediatric SANE Classroom course.
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IAFN will honor members who have died within the past year during a special memorial at the opening of the Annual Business Meeting on Wednesday, October 28, 2015, at 1:00pm EDT in Orlando, Florida. Please help us recognize these individuals by completing the following form.
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Seats are still available in the upcoming training provided by the Tribal Forensic Healthcare Project. Registration is free to healthcare providers that serve American Indian or Alaska Native victims of sexual assault, including those in Urban areas and the Military.
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Members of the International Association of Forensic Nurses witness their colleagues perform exceptional community outreach. We want to recognize these outstanding forensic nurses and need your help. Help IAFN recognize a member today!
The Regular Registration rate ends Sept. 25, 2015. Please take a moment to review/download the 2015 Conference Brochure for detailed information.
The special room rate at the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek for the Conference is $159 USD/night plus tax for single or double occupancy. A limited number of rooms are reserved at this discounted rate only until Sept. 27, 2015. The hotel will honor the discounted rate three days before and three days after the conference dates, based on availability. Reserve Online or call the reservation desk at 1-800-HILTONS. Refer to group code HIFN when booking reservations. Mears Shuttle is approximately $22 one way or $36 round trip from Orlando International Airport to the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek.
USA Today
Doctors should screen teenagers for major depression, a federal advisory group said Monday, but only if their young patients have access to mental health professionals who can diagnose them, provide treatment and monitor their progress.
That’s a big “if.”
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SkyNews
A 25-year-old woman has been convicted of sexual assault after impersonating a man to dupe her female friend into having sex.
Over two years Gayle Newland disguised her appearance and voice and demanded the woman wear a blindfold when they met up.
Newland pretended to be a man called Kye Fortune and wore bandages across her chest and a swimsuit to fool the complainant, Chester Crown Court heard.
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The New York Times
The Manhattan district attorney is sending $38 million taken in civil forfeiture from international banks in New York to cities and counties across the country to pay for testing 56,000 rape kits that have been collecting dust in police storage rooms for years.
Making good on a promise he made last year, the district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., unveiled a list of law-enforcement agencies in 20 states that will receive grants from his office to help eliminate backlogs of the evidence kits, which contain DNA samples taken from victims’ bodies after sexual attacks.
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The Guardian
It has been nearly three weeks since Report the Abuse launched. Three, simultaneously, long and short weeks.
There has been a slow growth in the data collected, and the number of results that have come in is not sufficient to make any determinations yet. But what I am seeing though is interesting, and I think we are in a good place from which to start discussions.
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ideas42
We grew out of research programs in psychology and economics at top academic institutions, and our work draws on decades of experimental scientific research. We use these insights to design scalable ways improve programs, policies and products in the real world.
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Medical Xpress
Poor mental health, self-harm and suicide attempts are common among children and adolescents who have been trafficked for forced labour or sexual exploitation, according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics. The research was led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration, and included interviews with 387 children and adolescents aged 10 to 17 years in post-trafficking services in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam.
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Sonke Gender Justice
The focus of this policy paper is on the role of the state in addressing sexual violence in public and private spaces. Specifically, the focus is on the policy provisions in terms of service delivery to sexual offences victims in terms of policing and health services and how these services are currently being provided.
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News-Medical
We investigated the links between homelessness associated with serious mental and physical healthy disparities and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in nationally representative data, with Axis I and II disorders as potential mediators.
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The Media Online
Media campaigns against domestic violence often miss the mark in trying to arouse our compassion. Depicting a range of women experiencing abuse (including those who withdraw charges), showing how to safely help – this is the territory that future campaigns should chart. For while Women’s Month has ended, domestic violence has not.
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PubFacts
Through a social identity theoretical lens, this study examines how nurses' identification with their working small group, unit, or floor, nursing role (e.g., staff ER nurse, nurse practitioner), and nursing profession relate to nurses' interaction involvement, willingness to confront conflict, feelings of learned helplessness, and tenure (employment turnover) intentions.
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