Live, Online Webinar
Sexual Assault Response:
Beyond the Kit
Wednesday, November 4
11:00 am - 1:00 pm ET
Early Registration Discount Price: $149
Offer Expires Friday, October 23
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Registration Fee: $199
Contact Hours: 2.0
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National estimates indicate that 90,000 to 400,000 sexual assault kits remain unsubmitted or
backlogged across the United States, a systemic issue now being tracked comprehensively.
Unsubmitted sexual assault kits are evidence collected from victims that were never send to a
forensic laboratory for DNA testing. Countless survivors remain unaware of whether their
evidence has been processed or logged.
Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) aims
to create a coordinated community response that ensures just resolution to sexual assault cases.
SAKI funding supports comprehensive reform to support local authorities test
unsubmitted evidence and link profiles to the
Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), maintained by the FBI.
Learn more about Sexual Assault evidence collection
from an experienced Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE),
engage with a leading SAKI researcher and discuss case
studies of sexual assault with surviving victims.
Agenda
11:00 - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 - 1:00 PM
SANE Nurse Role – Evidence Collection
Katelyn McNair, PhD, WHNP-BC, RN, SANE
SAKI Updates, Impact and a Better Future
Karen Holt, PhD
Case Studies in Sexual Assault with Surviving Victims
Ann Wolbert Burgess, D.N.Sc., APRN, FAAN
PRESSENTER BIOS
Ann Wolbert Burgess, D.N.Sc., APRN, FAAN, is an internationally recognized pioneer in the assessment and treatment of victims of trauma and abuse, and author of several books, including Expert Witness: The Weight of Our Testimony When Justice Hangs in the Balance and A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind. She has received numerous honors including the Sigma Theta Tau International Audrey Hepburn
Award, the American Nurses’ Association Hildegard Peplau Award, and the Sigma Theta Tau International Episteme Laureate Award. Her courtroom testimony has been described as “groundbreaking,” and she has been
called a “nursing pathfinder.”
Her research with victims began when she co-founded, with Boston College sociologist Lynda Lytle Holmstrom, one of the first hospital-based crisis counseling programs at Boston City Hospital. She then worked with FBI Academy special agents to study serial offenders, and the links between child abuse, juvenile delinquency, and subsequent perpetration. Her work with Boston College nursing colleague Carol Hartman led to the study of very young victims and the impact of trauma on their growth and development, their families and communities. Her work continues in the study of elder abuse in nursing homes, cyberstalking, and Internet sex crimes. She teaches courses in Victimology, Forensic Science, Forensic Mental Health, Case Studies in Forensics and Forensic Science Lab.
Karen Holt, PhD is an Associate Professor and criminologist in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. She has dedicated her career to working to prevent and respond to sexual abuse and to produce research that can be used to inform policy and practice. She is involved in multidisciplinary collaborations with law enforcement, legal professionals, corrections staff and providers, advocates and organizations that are working toward making society safer,with the shared goal of "no more victims."
Dr. Holt received her bachelor’s degree in forensic psychology from DeSales
University. She earned a master’s degree in forensic psychology, a master’s degree in criminal justice, and a doctoral degree in criminal justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her research focuses on sexual deviance, sexual
offending, and sexually motivated violence. She has developed and co-presented trainings on typologies and theories of sexual offending, and pornography use and sexual offending, cold case investigation, and homicide and death investigation. She recently received funding from the Michigan State Police to develop offender-focused knowledge and investigation practices for the Michigan Sexual Assault Kit Initiative. Dr. Holt was appointed by the President of Michigan State University to serve on the Relationship Violence and Sexual Misconduct (RVSM) Expert Advisory Workgroup.
Katelyn McNair, PhD, WHNP-BC, RN, SANE earned her MSN and PhD at Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing. Her dissertation examined disclosure patterns and health seeking behavior of sexual assault survivors in the era of #MeToo. Her most recent publication is a chapter titled "Forensic Nursing in the Community" in M. Stanhope & J. Lancaster (Eds.) Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community, 11th Edition. She has worked as a sexual assault nurse examiner in MA for the past 10 years. She is currently the Program Director of the BID Plymouth Breast Center.