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.
SART Scholarships
Team scholarships of up to $1,400 per team member will 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 up to $1,400 per officer will also be offered. Applications will be accepted from November 1, 2008 to February 2, 2009. The scholarships are designed to assist participants in covering airfare or POV mileage, hotel, and the Conference Registration Fee.
Interactive Scenario
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.
Conference Registration Fee
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, where we are holding rooms at the prevailing government per diem rate for 2009. Rates are confirmed at $158 single or double, $188 triple, or $218 quadruple plus the state and local taxes, currently set at 15.6%. Registration for room reservations at our reduced rate is open. Please click on the link for our online registration site. Then, click on the link for Fees & Travel Deals, and then click on the Westin logo to get to the rates. By clicking on the rate based on the number of people in the room, you may reserve your hotel room for the conference.
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: 2007 SART Conference Continuing Education Info
Thursday, November 20 2008 @ 12:46 PM Contributed by: adminLM
NEW SANE TRAININGS AVAILABLE
Several new SANE Trainings are now available.
Contact information is shown if you are interested in joining any of these training sessions.
SANE FORENSIC TRAINING
University of Missouri - Columbia Hospital
Fridays beginning January 16, 2009 for 5 weeks
Approved for 40 hours continuing education hours through Missouri Nurses' Association
Contact: Jennifer Young, UMHC Emergency Services
Phone: 573-882-3496
Fax: 573-884-5410
Email: Jennifer Young
SANE/SART TRAINING
April 6-10, 2009
Northern Kentucky
Cost: $100.00 for Kentucky Residents, $250.00 per person for out-of-state residents
Contact: Melissa Edlin, KASAP SANE/SART Coordinator
Phone: 502-226-2704
E-mail: E-mail: Melissa Edlin
SANE/SART TRAINING
May 11-15, 2009
Corbin, Kentucky
Cost: $100.00 for Kentucky Residents, $250.00 per person for out-of-state residents
Contact: Melissa Edlin, KASAP SANE/SART Coordinator
Phone: 502-226-2704
E-mail: E-mail: Melissa Edlin
SANE TRAINING
Des Moines, Iowa
June 15-19, 2009
Trainer: Dr. Linda E. Ledray, RN, Ph.D., SANE-A, FAAN
Contact: Nancy E. Lathrop, College of Nursing, The University of Iowa
Phone: (319) 335-7075
E-mail: Nancy Lathrop
SANE/SART TRAINING
August 17-21, 2009
Paducah, Kentucky
Cost: $100.00 for Kentucky Residents, $250.00 per person for out-of-state residents
Contact: Melissa Edlin, KASAP SANE/SART Coordinator
Phone: 502-226-2704
E-mail: E-mail: Melissa Edlin
SANE/SART TRAINING
August 31 – September 4, 2009
Hazard, Kentucky
Cost: $100.00 for Kentucky Residents, $250.00 per person for out-of-state residents
Contact: Melissa Edlin, KASAP SANE/SART Coordinator
Phone: 502-226-2704
E-mail: E-mail: Melissa Edlin
SANE/SART TRAINING
November 16 - 20, 2009
Louisville, Kentucky
Cost: $100.00 for Kentucky Residents, $250.00 per person for out-of-state residents
Contact: Melissa Edlin, KASAP SANE/SART Coordinator
Phone: 502-226-2704
E-mail: E-mail: Melissa Edlin
If interested in posting a training session here, contact the sane-sart website administrator at: Website Administrator
Please include details and contact information.
Sexually Violent Crime Seminar: The Body as Evidence
Friday, October 31 2008 @ 11:52 AM Contributed by: adminLM
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<b>Sexually Violent Crime Seminar: The Body as Evidence</b>
<br><br>The George Mason University's Office of Continuing Professional Education in
Virginia is hosting a 2-day seminar:<br><br>
<b>Sexually Violent Crime: The Body as Evidence<br>
Instructors: Dr. Henry Lee and Dr Michael Baden<br>
November 10-11, 2008</b><br><br>
This seminar is offered in cooperation with Administration of Justice Department and Forensic Nursing Program, School of Nursing. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
Please visit our website at <a href=http://www.ocpe.gmu.edu/programs/legal/sexual_violent_crime.php/><b> http://www.ocpe.gmu.edu/</b></a> for more information on this exciting opportunity to learn from two of the top forensic scientists in the country! <br><br>
8th Annual Crime Victim Law & Litigation Conference
Wednesday, October 22 2008 @ 08:17 PM Contributed by: adminLM
The Path to Progress
June 30 - July 1, 2009
at The Historic Benson Hotel
in downtown, Portland, Oregon
The National Crime Victim Law Institute’s annual Crime Victim Law & Litigation Conference promotes enforcement of victims’ rights by helping attorneys and advocates develop skills to effectively assist victims in the criminal justice system. The conference, through funding from the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, will offer education and training in crime victim law and multi-disciplinary approaches to advocating for crime victims’ rights.
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
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.
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.
