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Each year we seek to identify and recognize those individuals who have contributed significantly to the advancement, growth, and success of forensic nursing and/or the Association through various awards. Submit your nominations no later than April 28, 2017. Nominate now or click here for more information.
IAFN is once again collaborating with the American Nurses Foundation (ANF) to offer a $10,000 research grant to a forensic nurse researcher. Preference will be given to applicants who are members of the International Association of Forensic Nurses. If there are no member applications, or no high-quality proposals from association members, non-member applicants will be considered, with the selected grantee required to become a member of IAFN in order to receive funding. The focus of this grant is restricted to research focused on forensic nursing science.
This award is part of the 2017 Nursing Research Grants which offers nursing research awards to beginner and experienced nurse researchers. Information about all of the awards is available here.
The online application is available now. All applications must be completed by 11:59 p.m. on May 1.
There is still time to for your Poster Abstract Submission for the 2017 International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice.
- Have you developed a new forensic nursing project?
- Do you have research in progress?
- Do you want to share your ideas with colleagues?
Click here to find out more about the tracks, timelines, and more. Deadline is May 8.
The Huffington Post
On April 13, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed legislation that would expand the rights of survivors of sexual violence.
The Washington Post reported that the Sexual Assault Victims’ Rights Amendment Act of 2017 was crafted after a year-long deliberation of an independent task force, made up of multidisciplinary professionals. The goal of the task force was to reflect on national best practices for sexual assault cases and to make recommendations about how the District of Columbia could improve its response to sexual violence.
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OJJDP
According to the 2011 National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence, sponsored by OJJDP and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 60 percent of the children surveyed had been exposed to violence in the past year; more than 1 in 10 reported 5 or more exposures. Such exposure can cause children significant physical, mental, and emotional harm with long-term effects that can last well into adulthood.
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The Washington Post
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Tuesday signed more than 200 bills, including a measure that advocates say will change “the way we look at rape.”
The governor was joined by Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) and House Speaker Michael E. Busch (D-Anne Arundel) to sign what many advocates referred to as the “no means no” bill.
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ACEs Connection
Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength. If we teach our children to be kind and remind each other of the same, we can live from a place of strength, not fear. I have seen this strength manifest every day in the words and actions of people all across our great nation. It is what gives me hope that we can heal during challenging times.
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The Maitland Mercury
New data shows that more than half of the thousands of women and girls hospitalised after being assaulted in 2013-14 were victims of their partners.
Maitland MP Jenny Aitchison described the statistics as “disturbing” and said a lack of support services were preventing women accessing help before being hospitalised. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) released a report last week that showed almost 6500 women and girls were hospitalised due to assault across Australia in 2013–14.
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The Huffington Post
Victims of rape and other sexual assaults in Maryland are no longer required to prove they physically resisted their assailants under a new law.
Senate Bill 0217 changes the state’s outdated legal definition of rape, clarifying that a victim doesn’t need to fight the perpetrator to establish that a sexual crime was committed. Delegate Kathleen M. Dumais (D-Montgomery County) and Senator Delores G. Kelley (D-Baltimore County) sponsored the bill that Gov. Larry Hogan (R) signed into law.
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WCTV-TV
At the Capitol, there is now an emotional display of nearly one-thousand shoes worn by sexual assault survivors of all ages. The project is to honor National Sexual Assault Awareness month and National Child Abuse Prevention month.
This display is asking others to walk in the shoes of the survivors. It's intended to raise awareness and shatter stigmas surrounding sexual violence. It's also to give victims, survivors, and those affected a voice.
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CNN
In the first federal case involving female genital mutilation filed in the United States, two Michigan doctors and the wife of one of the doctors have been charged with performing the banned procedure on two 7-year-old girls.
Dr. Fakhruddin Attar, 53, and his wife, Farida Attar, 50, were arrested Friday at their medical office in Livonia, Michigan, west of Detroit.
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MSN
Activists campaigning to get Lebanon to abolish an old law which allows rapists to escape punishment for their crimes as long as they marry the survivor have staged a powerful protest on Beirut’s Corniche.
Thirty-one wedding dresses representing each day of the month in which women could be subject to further abuse by attackers who marries them were strung up on the Lebanese capital’s famous seafront to draw attention to Article 522 of the law addressing rape, assault and forced marriage.
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