Best Practices When Including a Facility Dog in Forensic Medical Exams

Learn how to include a facility dog in your forensic medical exams.

During this one-hour presentation, Lisa is going to explain the role of the medical team when there have been allegations of child abuse. She will show you what a child and their caregiver can expect when they are referred to SAC, and the roles of their canine team, Astro, Coco, and Daze. Lisa will address some common myths regarding dogs in a medical clinic and talk briefly about personal transition challenges she has experienced as dogs age.

This workshop will be offered as a live one-hour session on Wednesday, September 28, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and then a recording will be made available to all registrants after the close of the live session. The tuition for the workshop is $25 USD.

Lisa Wahl ARNP, FNP, SANE-A, SANE-P     

September 28 at 11:00 AM Pacific Time
(recording of the session will also be available)
Lisa Wahl has been a Family Nurse Practitioner and Forensic Nurse Examiner (FNE) with Providence Sexual Assault Clinic and Child Maltreatment Center (SAC) for 15 years, caring for children who have been physically and/or sexually abused, neglected and/or tortured, as well as responding to 3 hospitals to provide FNE care and services to people of all ages. She has been a co-handler of Astro, Director of Canine Support Services, since his arrival from the Assistance Dogs of Hawaii in 2013. As Astro “pretires,” he is mentoring Coco, who was also donated by Assistance Dogs of Hawaii to SAC. Lisa and Coco are syncing up and looking forward to years of service together.
Lisa got her master’s Science of Nursing degree from University of Alaska. She has been a Darkness to Light, Stewards of Children facilitator for 13 years, teaching child sexual abuse prevention to professionals and community members. She precepts nurse practitioner students, medical students and doctors from several hospitals and universities at SAC, increasing awareness of child abuse in the medical arena.
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