Fifth National SART Training Conference ANNOUNCEMENT
Monday, June 16 2008 @ 04:00 PM Contributed by: adminLM
FIFTH NATIONAL
SEXUAL ASSAULT RESPONSE TEAM
TRAINING CONFERENCE
May 27 - 29, 2009
Seattle, Washington
REGISTRATION OPENS NOVEMBER 1, 2008
ANNOUNCEMENT OF 2009 CONFERENCE
The Sexual Assault Resource Service (SARS) office in Minneapolis, MN is pleased to announce, in conjunction with the Office for Victims of Crime, Department of Justice, that the Fifith National SART Training Conference will be held in May of 2009 at the Westin Seattle in Seattle Washington. Save the dates of May 27 - 29, 2009 for this exciting training conference.
The focus of the 2009 SART Training Conference will be to continue expanding the capacity of SARTs to promote health and healing of sexual assault victims, hold sex offenders accountable for their crimes, and realize the hope of preventing further sexual violence in their communities.
Team scholarships of $1,000 per team member will again be offered in 2009 to a limited number of SART teams comprised of four team members representing four different SART disciplines; law enforcement scholarships of $1,000 per officer will also be offered. Applications will be available from this website on November 1, 2008. Applications will be accepted from November 1, 2008 to February 2, 2009. The scholarships are designed to assist participants in covering air, hotel, and the Conference Registration Fee.
We will be repeating the interactive scenario which was well received in 2007. Teams representing four disciplines will be required for participation in this interactive learning format. A limited number of SARTs will work as teams, collecting evidence at the scene of the crime through to testifying at the trial, with training by some of our top trainers.
The SART Conference Registration Fee will be $425.00 if registered on or before March 16, 2009. If registering after that date, the conference fee will be $475.00. The Registration Fee includes participation in six Keynote addresses, eight workshops, entrance to the SART Exhibit Hall, three continental breakfasts, three lunches, and printed conference materials. All meetings will be held at the Westin Seattle. We are holding rooms at the prevailing government per diem rate for 2009. This rate will be announced in October when the 2009 rates have been determined. Registration for room reservations at our reduced rate will open November 1, 2008.
Further details will be available this fall.
CEU Information from the 2007 Conference
If interested in further information on the Continuing Education credits earned at the Fourth National SART Training Conference held in Tampa in 2007, click on this link:
SART CONF Continuing Education Info
If interested in looking back at the content of the 2007 Conference, 2007 SART Conference brochures may be downloaded by clicking on this link: 2007 SART Conference Brochure The Planning Committee for the Fifth National SART Training Conference is working hard on developing the content and the speakers for 2009; the brochure will be posted online when their work is completed. Please check back in November of 2008.
Sunday, September 21 2008 @ 08:30 PM Contributed by: adminLM
Several new SANE Trainings are now available.
Contact information is shown if you are interested in joining any of these training sessions.
SANE TRAINING
Duluth, MN
October 13-17, 2008
Trainer: Diana Faugno RN,MSN, CPN, FAAFS, SANE-A, SANE-P
Cost $350
Contact Sarah Fries at 218/726-1442 or e-mail:
Sarah Fries
Visit http://www.pavsa.org/and click on the SANE Training link at the bottom right of the page for more information about the course objectives, schedule, registration and lodging information.
SANE TRAINING
Lafayette, LA
October 13-17, 2008
Provided by Stuller Place / University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Cost $400
40.1 Contact Hours for Nursing
Contact Shayna Guidry at 337-269-1557 or
shayna.spsane@yahoo.com
Please click on this link for further information: LOUISIANA SANE TRAINING - OCT 2008
If interested in posting a training session here, contact the sane-sart website administrator at: Website Administrator
Sunday, September 21 2008 @ 08:29 PM Contributed by: adminLM
Thank you for your patience as we moved our website to a new server in an effort to continue providing timely and pertinent information to SANEs and SART teams around the country. The move has now been completed.
IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR USERS UPLOADING DATA TO THE SANE-SART DATA BASE:
We are continuing to experience a technical difficulty with the SANE data tool that allows our users to upload cases to our website. We have now determined that extensive programming will be required to make the SANE data tool operable. Unfortunately, it will require funding to accomplish this task. The SARS office has applied for a grant to facilitate this. We hope that the national database will be operational again this fall. When the SANE data tool is working properly, we will post it on the website. Thank you again for your patience.
Until then, we hope that you will catalogue your sexual assault data to enter in the national data base late this fall. If you choose to suspend entering data at this point and just resume entering new cases this fall, we certainly understand. In the mean time, you will continue to have access to the aggregate data entered up to the point when the data was transferred to the new server in May. While the date shown when you pull a report displays the current date, you will see that the total number of cases entered into the database is frozen at 8,388 cases.
If your agency has loaded over 100 sexual assault cases, your local aggregate data reports will be frozen at the total number of cases entered.
Once the SANE data tool has been reprogrammed, we hope to revise the form utilized for data entry to make the form more user-friendly as well as incorporating suggestions made as to the type of data you would like to see included.
Please notify us by e-mail if you have further suggestions for data that you collect that is not currently included on our "Client Data Sheet" and/or on the aggregate data reports. The e-mail address is admin@sartconference.com
Sexually Violent Crime Seminar: The Body as Evidence
Sunday, September 21 2008 @ 08:07 PM Contributed by: adminLM
The George Mason University's Office of Continuing Professional Education in
Virginia is hosting a 2-day seminar:
Sexually Violent Crime: The Body as Evidence
Instructors: Dr. Henry Lee and Dr Michael Baden
November 10-11, 2008
This seminar is offered in cooperation with Administration of Justice Department and Forensic Nursing Program, School of Nursing.
Sexually violent crime continues to challenge investigators and concern the general public. It has been estimated that every two minutes, someone in the United States is sexually assaulted. In many cases, sexual assault results in homicide. Dr. Henry Lee and Dr. Michael Baden, two of the country's top forensic scientists, will share their individual and collective expertise to help the participants understand the importance of the body as evidence as it relates to sexually violent crimes.
Please visit our website at http://www.ocpe.gmu.edu/ for more information on this exciting opportunity to learn from two of the top forensic scientists in the country!
Tuesday, November 27 2007 @ 01:41 PM Contributed by: adminLM
There has been a lot of discussion about the use of forensic light sources for the detection of semen and bruise documentation. Foster & Freeman has many years experience in the use and application of forensic light sources, and would like to offer their assistance in answering any questions you may have regarding the use of these lights.
An electronic copy of their brochure on Crime-lite, their inexpensive, easy-to-use forensic light source is attached.
Monday, August 28 2006 @ 02:54 PM Contributed by: adminLM
With the addition of the Rhode Island program operating out of the Women and Infants Hospital, all fifty U.S. states now have at least one operating SANE program. The Rhode Island SANE program was started by Lu Force, RN, Donna LaFontaine, MD, and Susan Duffy, MD, with significant support from the RI State Attorney General, Patrick Lynch.
The Rhode Island program began providing service in February of 2006 . They currently have 14 SANE trained nurses performing exams, and they expect to see approximately 100 victims a year.
Friday, January 14 2005 @ 10:45 PM Contributed by: Anonymous
The Sexual Assault Resource Service is pleased to introduce you to our newly redesigned Web site. Key features of the redesigned site include an expanded Topics menu, site to site interaction with a Forum for each discipline within the SART, access to aggregate data, expanded user input, an opportunity to Vote in the current poll, and a calendar of events (conferences, courses).
User Functions
If you have not already done so, please click on New User on the left of your screen to set up your sane-sart.com account. As a sane-sart.com User, you will:
--have access to all Topics sections
--have access to aggregate data compiled by SANE programs participating in our Web Team program
--be able to participate in the Forum specific to your discipline
--be able to contribute conference/course listings, link suggestions
and stories for review and possible posting on this Web site
Topics
After your registration has been processed, you may access the special sections of the Web site by clicking on the Topic of your choice on the upper left of your screen.
Forum
After your registration has been processed, you may access the Forum for your discipline by scrolling to the
bottom of this page and clicking on your discipline.
The Information We Collect
sane-sart.com maintains high standards for the protection of your privacy at our Web site. After your sane-sart.com account registration has been processed, your contact data will not be sold, rented or shared without your consent. Please see our Web Site Privacy Policy, available in the Topics menu.
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SANE Programs Needed to Enter Data Into the sane-sart.com National Database
Saturday, November 13 2004 @ 04:05 PM Contributed by: Anonymous
SEEKING WEB SITE TEAM MEMBERS
The Sexual Assault Resource Service has obtained a grant to further develop the data collection of individual victim information on this Web site. To meet this goal, we are accepting applications from 100 SANE programs to participate by entering individual victim data (excluding identifying information) into the sane-sart.com national database. These SANE programs will have access to aggregate data from all participating SANE programs, as well as access to all other resources provided on this Web site.
There is no membership fee, however each interested SANE program is required to submit a completed Application Form for review (from the Topics menu, select SANE Prgm Natl Data for additional information and an Application Form.)
This Web site is supported by Grant No. 27-60-I01014 awarded by the
U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information
Administration. Initial funding was provided by Grant No. 96-VF-GX-K012 awarded by
the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for
Victims of Crime. Points of view within this Web site are those of participating
writers/researchers and do not necessarily represent the official position or
policies of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Justice or
the Sexual Assault Resource Service.
