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The IAFN Nominating Committee is NOW accepting applications from regular members for the open positions with the:
Board of Directors–
- President-elect
- Secretary
- Director at Large (3 positions available)
Nominating Committee–
Commission for Forensic Nursing Certification–
- SANE-A®- or SANE-P®-certified commissioners (3 positions available)
The deadline to apply is July 31, 2017. Submit an online application or learn more.

Oct. 11 - 14, 2017
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Take advantage of the Early Registration rate of $525 USD for members and $654 USD for nonmembers. Early Registration ends July 31, 2017. This is a four-day conference and registration includes continental breakfast and three lunches. Up to 27 contact hours will be available.
See the Registration Brochure for more information.
Support your IAFN Foundation and enhance your networking with this year's Laugh Out Loud With The Foundation fundraiser. Tickets are being sold by the foundation. Find out more!

- June 12: Photography in sexual assault care
- June 22: Demystifying the prepubescent medical forensic examination
- 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
All of these webinars registration is open. Please invite your team members to attend these important topics with you.
Archived/On-Demand Webinars from earlier this year All are now available for viewing at your leisure.
Apply to sit for the September 2017 SANE-A® and/or SANE-P® certification exam.
To learn more, download the 2017 Certification Examination Handbook or visit the "Take the Exam" page at www.ForensicNurses.org. Apply by mail, fax, email or online by July 5, 2017.
Your exam results have been mailed! Please contact us if you have not received your packet by June 30, 2017. If you have any questions, please email certification@ForensicNurses.org Best wishes!
To learn more about SANE certification and/or Advanced Forensic Nursing certification, please visit our site to access our helpful video tutorials, handbooks and eligibility requirements: http://www.forensicnurses.org/?page=CertOpportunities
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CFNA
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CFSO
House Judiciary Committee Hearing: To Examine the State of Forensic Science in the United States
The CFSO was pleased and honored to recently have three witnesses appear
before the House Judiciary Committee, Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security
and Investigations Subcommittee.
The purpose of the hearing was to
explore the
needs and the
requirements of the forensic science provider
community.
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ReliefWeb
Gender-based violence is an umbrella term for any harmful act perpetrated against a person based on socially ascribed (i.e. gender) differences between males and females. It includes acts that inflict physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering, threats of such acts, coercion and other deprivations of liberty. These acts can occur in public or in private spaces.
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Newsweek
The Atlanta Police Department updated its definition of rape on the first day of 2017. Previously, the crime was defined as a man forcing himself on a woman against her will, but the new definition includes any penetration without consent and applies equally to all genders, an APD spokesman tells Newsweek. That means the rape of a man or transgender person will now be recorded the same way as the rape of a woman.
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U.S. Department of Justice
The table on the following page lists all the open OJP funding opportunities, with links to the full text of the solicitation and to the appropriate grants system to apply. We encourage you to check out the Apply section of the site for information and training on writing and submitting an application.
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The Atlantic
When state officials finally released William Cubbage from the Iowa Mental Health Institute in 2010, they predicted he was too sick to hurt anyone again. But the octogenarian only became an even more notorious sex offender.
Between 1987 and 2000, Cubbage was convicted in four separate cases of assault. Then, a year after his release, he molested a 95-year-old woman in a nursing home.
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Broadly
On June 5, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that convicted sex offenders can be charged the cost of their victims' rape kits. The decision comes after two perpetrators contested their unrelated court orders to pay for their victims' forensic examinations.
In 2009, Adam Teague was charged with sexual assault after his victim said he attacked her while she was sleeping. He initially denied the accusation but her rape kit proved otherwise. In the same year, Bobby Rogers forced a woman to perform oral sex on him while threatening her with a knife.
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Wisconsin Department of Justice
Attorney General Brad Schimel, previous recipient of the Wisconsin Victim Witness Professionals' "Professional of the Year" Award, has been fighting on behalf of crime victims for 28 years as a prosecutor. As Attorney General, Schimel has made supporting victims of sexual assault one of his top priorities. Under his leadership Wisconsin is getting unsubmitted sexual assault kits out of the possession of hospitals and local law enforcement agencies and into the hands of forensic analysts for testing so justice can be delivered to sexual assault survivors.
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