Many of these sites or organizations have free or affordable education for forensic healthcare professionals
Academy of Forensic Nursing: www.goafn.org
(regular webinars, e-learning modules etc.), for AFN members the webinars are free of charge, or individual training programmes are discounted.
Evidentia Learning: www.evidentialearning.com
(various e-learning modules, including child abuse, violence in old age, sexualised violence, etc.). There are both free modules and modules for which a fee is charged.
Forensic Education (www.forensiceducation.ca/courses/eesas)
offers a free 4 hr multidisciplinary online course on comprehensive sexual assault care esp for areas without SANEs or forensic MDs in community. Relies on collaboration and enhancing existing skills (Enhanced Emergency Sexual Assault Services- EESAS)
International Association of Forensic Nurses: www.forensicnurses.org
(nursing research (s.a. Journal of Forensic Nursing), publications, education and training)
KIDSTA: www.kidsta.org
( focus: paediatric examination after sexual violence)
SAFETA: www.safeta.org
focus: sexual violence
Swiss Association Forensic Nursing: www.forensicnursing.ch
(Swiss network for forensically trained nurses). From 2022, individual trainings will be available, e.g. on physical examination after interpersonal violence, but also various checklists and documentation questionnaires in German.
Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention: www.strangulationtraininginstitute.com
valuable documents, webinars and tools such as assessments after strangulation), see also www.strangulationtraininginstitute.com/training/online-strangulation-training it’s a free training with personalized certificate of completion.