Applications Due Nov. 4 for December SANE Clinical Training Opportunity
The Office of the Illinois Attorney General (OAG) announced an adult/adolescent (A/A) sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) clinical training opportunity for 2025. The training will take place Dec. 2-3 in Springfield at the SIU School of Medicine from 8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. CT.
This training is for medical professionals who have completed the 40-hour A/A SANE didactic training and are working to complete their Illinois A/A SANE clinical training log. The OAG will select participants based on clinical training log completion status and geographic representation.
For more information regarding the Illinois SANE Program, the content of this training or nursing contact hours, please email
sane@ilga.gov.
Registration Open: CRA/A-CRA Training Sept. 17-19
The Illinois Dept. of Human Services Division of Substance Use Prevention and Recovery (SUPR) is offering a free online training opportunity on Sept. 17-19 for clinical and clinical supervisory staff on the
Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA)—a leading evidence-supported intervention for patients with substance use disorders, including opioid and stimulant use disorders.
The training will take place over three days from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. CT. SUPR will cover the cost of training, certification, coaching, and on-demand support and assistance to clinical staff who participate in the training process. Continuing education credit from NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, is available to those who attend the training in its entirety. To register please complete the
registration form and email it to Summer Root at
sjroot@chestnut.org. The deadline to register is Sept. 3.
Administration Orders 6-Month Stockpile of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
The White House this week issued an
Executive Order instructing the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) to develop a list of approximately 26 drugs considered critical to national health and security. The order calls for ASPR to gather a six-month supply of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and place them in the Strategic APIs Reserve, with priority placed on domestic sourcing and manufacturing. ASPR is also instructed to update a 2022 list of 86 essential medicines and propose a plan to obtain and store a six-month supply of drug ingredients for the identified essential medicines.
HHS Revives Child Vaccine Task Force
The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) yesterday
announced reinstatement of the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, a federal panel created to improve safety and oversight of children’s vaccines. The original task force was disbanded in 1998. The new group will be led by senior leadership from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Food and Drug Administration, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, will serve as chairman.
An HHS media statement said the task force will work with the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines to produce recommendations on the development, promotion, and refinement of childhood vaccines that result in fewer and less serious adverse reactions than those vaccines currently on the market. The task force will also focus on improvements in vaccine development, production, distribution and adverse reaction reporting — along with supporting research to make vaccines safer.
