HSC Sex Assault Treatment Program Expands to Domestic Violence Care [winnipegfreepress.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 1/4/207:00 AM

By Katie May, Winnipeg Free Press, January 2, 2020

Manitoba’s largest sexual assault treatment program has expanded care for victims of domestic violence.

Seeing a need for trauma-informed treatment that wasn’t solely for people who have been sexually assaulted, the forensic nurses at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre are now using their training to care for people who’ve been physically abused by their partners.

Since Nov. 1, the team of about 14 sexual assault nurse examiners has also been seeing patients who’ve been strangled or otherwise subjected to violence, said Ashley Smith, co-ordinator of the program.

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