Here’s an update to a story we posted back in May about President Obama eliminating abstinence only sex education from the FY2010 budget. It looks
like congress has acted on Obama’s proposal.
From PR Newswire:
The United States Senate yesterday passed a package of spending bills for FY 2010, which included a historic new investment [...]
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Congress Funds “Evivence Based” Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Using Computers for Domestic Violence Screening
From the Toronto based Globe and Mail: A recently released study shows how computer screening of patients dramatically increased the ability of medical personnel to uncover domestic violence situations.
From the article:
So the findings of this new study are intriguing and encouraging. The researchers, led by Farah Ahmad, randomly divided patients at a family practice [...]
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After a brief hiatus we’re back with more regular posts.
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In the News
With budgets being cut for social service programs, the Nevada state government appears ready to add a fee to marriage licensees to help fund domestic violence programs.
In England, there is news of a creative approach to public outreach and education. A bus, with experts ready to answer questions on domestic violence, will tour the country. [...]
A Great Idea: Mapping Domestic Violence
Harbor House of Central Florida has come up with an innovative idea. They created a map to show police which zip codes in their local area have higher rates of domestic violence.
Link to the local news story.
Dating Violence and Reproductive Health
From RH Reality Check, Kiersten Stewart, talks about abuse and its impact on young women’s reproductive health:
Relationship abuse has many serious consequences and one of them can be harm to a woman’s reproductive health. Studies show that relationship or dating abuse can have reproductive health consequences, including unplanned pregnancy and exposure to sexually transmitted infections [...]
Abuse and the brain
In case you missed it, here’s an interesting New York Times article about McGill Univerity researchers and their examination of physiological changes in the brain related to abuse:
In a study of people who committed suicide published Sunday in the journal Nature Neuroscience, researchers in Montreal report that people who were abused or neglected as [...]
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