Latest site updates

[Randy McCall]

The following have been added to VAOnline.orgs various sites and projects:

VAOnline.org Web Site (access these links at:

http://www.vaonline.org/new.html )

Latest links to organizations and services:

 

• What services should be made available to male survivors? (BBC, Podcast)
• International Conference on the Use of the Internet in Mental Health (Video Presentations, Canada) The following select links to conference presentations are recommended for victim assistance and support personnel.

 

• Critical elements for effective Cybercounselling : The presence techniques and their impact
• Developing guidelines for Canadian psychologists who deliver online services: Bumps and pathways
• From Netscape to Twitter: 15 Years of Mental Health Online
• How to ensure quality (mental) health information on the internet: The HON Code
• Practical Considerations in the Use of the Internet in Disaster Research
• Promoting mental health in the Web 2.0 era
• Six questions for the evaluation of evidence-based content of mental health-related websites
• The internet as a research tool: from data collection to online trials
• The NCTSN Knowledge Bank: A collaborative tool and showcase for Network expertise
• The Provision of Online Mental Health Services: Ethical and Legal Issues and Recommendations for Practice
• Using Blogs as support tools
• Working the Internet in Studying Trauma

 

• National Centre for Domestic Violence (UK)

• Queensland Health Victim Support Service (Australia)

• The Advocacy Project - Victimology Society of Serbia (Videos, Serbia)

• Victim Assist Queensland (Queensland, Australia)

• Victim Support Kent (Blog, UK)

Latest links to online documents and articles:

 

• In Defense of Victim Impact Statements (USA)

Sept 9: The last weeks Twitter News Feed items:

Follow me on Twitter:  http://www.twitter.com/randymccall

- Cap on lawyer fees a burden for victims (Ohio, USA): http://tinyurl.com/madrb4

- Sex crime victims' courage to speak out may have led to severe sentence by lay judges (Japan): http://tinyurl.com/m63dlm

- California violence shelters closing amid budget cuts (USA): http://tinyurl.com/m4smqy

- DNA makes a mark in fight against theft (New Zealand) http://tinyurl.com/nk3do4

- A move to register sex offenders globally (Time Online): http://tinyurl.com/nbm6re

- Brown pledges terror victim support (UK): http://tinyurl.com/m3by4u

- Sept. Crime Victim E-News (Adelaide, South Australia): http://tinyurl.com/luue8w

- Criminal convictions more than 10 years old will be wiped from people's records by new laws: http://tinyurl.com/nrdgpv

- Rape kits for use in incest cases distributed to regional hospitals (New Delhi, India): http://tinyurl.com/m4d8cc

- Yes, anyone can be an abuser or victim (USA): http://tinyurl.com/mtj9j5

- Internet service providers (ISPs) that do not stop child pornography on the Internet may be charged (UK): http://tinyurl.com/mn7hx2

- Pro-bono lawyers setting up shop in Centennial Square (BC, Canada): http://tinyurl.com/mohc7l

- "Differentiate rape from adultery" says Afghan rights groups: http://tinyurl.com/mgnrhz

Randy McCall

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