SAFEta Source is hosting a free webinar on SANE program peer review that is a must for anyone running a program. Particularly if you are struggling with how best to set up a peer review process or have not yet considered the benefits of peer review. The webinar will be held June 22nd at 2pm ET. Advanced registration is required to attend.

From the site:

Presented by Suzanne Rotolo, PhD, MSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, CFN, and Lisa Gorham, BSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, CFN, this webinar will offer education and practical solutions to clinicians who are looking for resources on peer review. At the end of the event, attendees will be able to:

1.    Describe the peer review process

2.    Identify reasons that peer review should take place

3.    Identify resources in particular practice arenas that can validate the peer review process

Suzanne Rotolo, PhD, MSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, CFN has been a nurse since 1976. In 1981 she began working at Inova Fairfax Hospital/Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children in the Emergency Department. In 1991, she developed the first Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program in Virginia. In 1993, under Rotolo's direction, the SANE Program changed to the FACT (Forensic Assessment and Consultation Teams) Department, which now comprises the SANE program, the Domestic Violence program, the Physical Child Abuse program, and the Body Cavity Search program for the adult detention center. Rotolo has examined over 5,000 patients reporting sexual assault. She has been qualified as an expert in sexual assault over 150 times in Virginia, Maryland, Washington, DC, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Rotolo received her PhD from George Mason University in 2009, with her dissertation on the "Patterns of Genital Trauma in Sexually Assaulted Women." She is nationally certified as a SANE-P, a SANE-P, and is also a Certified Forensic Nurse (CFN). She is well published in the forensic field and is a founding member of the national and local chapters of the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN).

Lisa Gorham, BSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, CFN graduated from Northern Virginia Community College in 1996 and went on to receive her BSN from Old Dominion University. She had worked in the areas of geriatrics, mental health, addictions, research, pediatrics, and sexual assault. She has performed sexual assault examinations since 2002, lectures on the subject at George Washington University, participates in case reviews with a local county child advocacy center, and has jointly published an article on the topic of peer review as it relates to sexual assault examinations. She currently resides in Maryland with her family and works for Inova Fairfax Hospital's Forensic Assessment and Consultation Team.
 

TechSoup is offering a free webinar March 16th, 11am PT on using Twitter. This session is geared toward libraries and non-profits. "This webinar will survey the Twitter landscape, explaining core concepts, enumerating best practices, and describing the tools and tactics that exist to leverage Twitter's strengths.

Kami Griffiths will interview Allen Gunn, Executive Director of Aspiration, who will be offering a balanced perspective, assessing both the pros and cons of Twitter and helping you understand how best to use it.

This webinar is ideal for anyone interested in getting started using Twitter. It's especially relevant if you're unsure about the terminology or where to begin."

MNCASA is offering a webinar March 22nd, 12pm CT on protocol development and renewing interagency agreements. This should be an excellent session, addressing two issues we see frequently in the sustainability TA project. This webinar will describe the process of writing or adapting protocols, renewing interagency agreements, and training on protocol. It will also share examples from existing teams, provide resources and discuss creative strategies for overcoming pitfalls common to the protocol development process. 

Participation is free, but registration is required.

From the Office on Victims of Crime:

On February 24, 2010, at 2 p.m. (eastern time), the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) will present a Web Forum discussion with Anne Seymour and Viki Sharp regarding Strategic Planning for Victim Service Leaders. Ms. Seymour is Cofounder and Senior Advisor of Justice Solutions, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., that specializes in criminal and juvenile justice, crime victims’ rights and services, and community safety. In addition to serving victims for 25 years as a crime victim advocate, she has also helped more than 30 local, state, and national entities to develop strategic plans and authored or contributed to more than 30 OVC publications, including the Strategic Planning Toolkit. Ms. Sharp has spent 30 years as an advocate for crime victims’ rights and continues to educate and train others during her retirement. As a consultant for the National District Attorneys Association and OVC, Ms. Sharp helped establish and expand victim services throughout the country and provided extensive training in crisis intervention, communication, vicarious trauma, team building, and victimology to law enforcement and victim service providers. For more information about the Web Forum discussion, visit http://ovc.ncjrs.gov/ovcproviderforum.

Visit the OVC Web Forum now to submit questions for Ms. Seymour and Ms. Sharp and return on February 24 at 2 p.m. (eastern time) for the live discussion. Learn how to participate beforehand so you are ready for the discussion.

The Nonprofit Risk Management Center has announced their 2010 webinar schedule. There's some interesting stuff on the list. If you're looking at risk management issues in your own program, you might want to consider the expenditure ($59) to attend one of their offerings. Some of the ones that caught my eye include:

• Ethics and Conflict of Interest Policies (3/3/10)
• Risk Management, Budgeting and Forecasting (4/7/10)
• Reputation Risk: What's in a Name? (8/4/10)

You can view the whole list here.

The Non-Profit Insurance Alliance Group and Blue Avocado are co-sponsoring a webinar on succession planning, December 1st at 11 am PT. This 1-hour session will cover emergency succession planning as a risk management strategy, developing a "leaderful" organization that is prepared for change of all types, the extra steps to be taken in planning for the departure of a long-tenured executive, and how to engage your board of directors and your senior leadership team in the process.
 
 
Cost is $45 to attend--maybe the perfect thing to do with a group of coordinators from your region? I'm thinking an hour of webinar and then some group strategizing about how to implement succession planning in the respective programs...Remember, even small programs with little agency involvement need to consider succession planning. Having our programs live and die with a single individual isn't something we can afford.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy hosted an online discussion yesterday on using Facebook Causes to promote nonprofits. Sadly, I just heard about it this morning, so I couldn't attend. But it's archived on their site and available for viewing (it's transcripts of the session, not video). For those of you toying with this approach to fundraising, it's worth checking out. Be sure to connect to the links mentioned in the discussion (a few aren't  hyperlinked so you may have to seek them out manually) for great tips on recruiting people to your cause and other valuable info.

Its only 9:15 am and I have already fielded two questions this morning on SANE/SART funding, so I am going to take that as a sign from the blogging gods and get a post up on finding funders.

It must seem like, at times, I'm a paid spokesperson for a couple different sites (oh, how I wish!), but the reality is I simply have a few, well-vetted tools in my arsenal to which I return over and over again for quality information. The Foundation Center is one of those. Happily, they have an on-line course (offered monthly) on finding funders, that might be useful to those of you trying to identify applicable funding sources, but unsure where to go after your initial Google search returns thousands of sites of indeterminate relevance. The next dates for the course are:

• October 14th, 1-2pm ET
• November 5th, 2-3pm ET
• December 1st, 2-3pm ET

If none of those dates work for you, or you simply need the info sooner rather than later, you can also view a recording online.

The SAFE TA project is hosting a free webinar on victim privacy October 13th from 2-3:30 ET. Susan Chasson, an IAFN past president and practicing SANE, and Jessica Mindlin, an attorney from the Victim Rights Law Center and NSVRC advisory board member, will be the featured presenters.

You can find all the info at the Forensic Health site, where I posted session and registration details this morning.

The Family Justice Center Alliance is hosting a webinar, September 10th at 9am Pacific: Setting Up a Foundation or 501(c)3 to Support a Family Justice Center (FJC). Although it's going to be talking about the FJC model, that model does include medical-forensic care, and may be particularly useful for programs looking to make a move to a more community-based (or independent nursing service) set up. They'll discuss "everything from the pros and cons to starting a foundation, what it will take to get a foundation started, who should be on your board as well as other issues in starting a foundation." And best of all, it's free.