Rape Crisis Center to expand forensic nursing staff, training with DOJ award
Shelby County Crime Victims & Rape Crisis Center held a ribbon cutting ceremony for expanded services for victims of sexual violence on Thursday, March 3, 2023. An award from the U.S. Department of Justice will enable the center to strengthen its workforce and train more nurse examiners. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Shelby County Crime Victims and Rape Crisis Center has been named a center of excellence for its forensic nursing program and will receive funding from the U.S. Department of Justice to train more nurse examiners.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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