Emergency department visits related to sexual assault increased more than tenfold over a span of 13 years, according to a new study that experts and advocates say reflects a growing cultural shift around confronting sexual assault. The research, published Thursday in JAMA Network Open, showed that those visits increased 1,533% from 2006 to 2019 — a jump from 3,600 annual visits to 55,200.
Tammy Toney Butler – SANE, NUAHT, Collaborator & Lynn’s Warriors Advisory Council Member
“What we have to understand is that in these sexual assaults are invisible victims of human trafficking. We must educate appropriately so we can identify them and treat them appropriately thereby possibly gaining a disclosure. Empower with resources and mandatory report if a minor. Please consider doing our training where I show you the intersectionality’s of sexual assaults and human trafficking.”
See our learning management system Nurses United Against Human Trafficking – NUAHT
Human Trafficking 102, 103 and 104 look at this very topic.
