NEW SANE - SART TRAININGS AVAILABLE
Last Updated: February 26, 2010


SANE TRAINING
Grand Rapids, MN
March 1 - 4, 2010
Contact: Leah Mornes-Kulcsar, SANE Coordinator
Phone: 218-326-5008
Registration by mail required
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For a Registration Form for this training, Click here
E-mail: sane@iaasa.org

MALE SURVIVOR CONFERENCE
John Jay College, New York City, NY
March 18 – 21, 2010
Online registrationavailable at Male Survivor Website
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If interested in bringing a SANE-A training to your area, please contact Dr. Linda Ledray:

Dr. Linda E. Ledray, PhD, RN, SANE-A, FAAN
Director, SANE-SART Resource Service
MMRF, Minneapolis, MN
Phone: 612-873-2434
Adult/Adolecent SANE Trainings Provided
E-mail: Dr. Linda E. Ledray


Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Education
Conducted by Linda E. Ledray, PhD, RN, SANE-A, FAAN

This forty-hour didactic training course covers “everything” the RN or MD needs to know to conduct an effective sexual assault examination and work as a member of a Sexual Assault Response Team (SART). It also meets the didactic training requirements of the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) to sit for their international certification examination.

Presented by one of the leading SANE researchers and educators the information included is evidence-based, up-to-date, comprehensive, and yet presented in a manageable format. Nurses who have participated in this program have indicated it was one of the most exciting courses they have attended; when they finished the course, they felt ready to complete the clinical component

As an exhibitor at the Fifth National SART Training Conference in Seattle, WA in May of 2009, we are providing this information to you about Crime Sciences, Inc.

Crime Sciences, Inc. provides a broad range of forensic products. They are a leader in supplying forensic light sources and training in the use of forensic light sources. Their display at the Fifth National SART Training Conference in Seattle in May of 2009 featured their Forensic Flare Nursing Kit, the forensic light source of choice of SANE programs in New Mexico and Canada.

The Forensic Flare Nursing Kit was specifically designed for use by sexual assault nurse examiners. The flare incorporates the ideal combination of high output and a narrow band light output at 470nm, ideal for detecting biological fluids, in a unique hand held design. You will never know what evidence you have been missing until you use a Flare! They also displayed their range of evidence rulers and markers including their unique 6” Gray Ruler with color scale, and their sterile disposable nail clippers with nail catcher.

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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.

Visit www.ncvli.org/conference.html for more information. Registration will open in early 2009.

Save the Date v June 30 - July 1, 2009

Please click on this link to view an article reprinted with the permission from SATI e-News: Advocates and Law Enforcement: Oil and Water?


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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

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.

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.