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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives wish to congratulate Christy Alexander on | ||||||
| 4 | being named the Front Line Forensic Nurse of the Year by the | ||||||
| 5 | International Association of Forensic Nurses; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Christy Alexander has been in nursing for 33 years | ||||||
| 7 | and has worked at Presence St. Mary's Hospital in Kankakee, | ||||||
| 8 | Illinois since 1993; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, Christy Alexander is a nurse with a special | ||||||
| 10 | mission; in 2010, while working in Pediatric Emergency Care, | ||||||
| 11 | she regularly encountered abused children and decided to look | ||||||
| 12 | into forensic nursing; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, In 2012, Christy Alexander received her board | ||||||
| 14 | certification as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE); she is | ||||||
| 15 | one of only 33 nurses in the State of Illinois certified to | ||||||
| 16 | work with adult victims of sexual violence and one of only a | ||||||
| 17 | dozen certified to work with children who have been sexually | ||||||
| 18 | assaulted; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, Christy Alexander has a desire to increase the | ||||||
| 20 | number of SANE-certified nurses; in 2012, she founded the SANE | ||||||
| 21 | Program at Presence St. Mary's Hospital with the goal of | ||||||
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| 1 | helping victims of sexual assault regain control of their | ||||||
| 2 | lives; Presence St. Mary's has since added two additional SANE | ||||||
| 3 | nurses; and
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| 4 | WHEREAS, Christy Alexander sees 50 to 70 victims of sexual | ||||||
| 5 | assault per year, the vast majority of which are women; almost | ||||||
| 6 | half of her patients are children; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, Christy Alexander will present at the | ||||||
| 8 | International Conference on Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, | ||||||
| 9 | and Gender Bias in Chicago in April; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Christy Alexander was recommended for the award by | ||||||
| 11 | the state coordinator of SANE nurses, Jaclyn Rodriguez, and by | ||||||
| 12 | letters of recommendation from her peers; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, Christy Alexander also works with the local Sexual | ||||||
| 14 | Assault Response Team, the Kankakee County Center Against | ||||||
| 15 | Sexual Assault, the Child Network, Kankakee Community College, | ||||||
| 16 | the Illinois State's Attorney's Office, and other health | ||||||
| 17 | professionals to learn how to better serve victims; and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, Christy Alexander is a graduate of Herscher High | ||||||
| 19 | School, Kankakee Community College, and Western Governor's | ||||||
| 20 | University in Utah; Christy and her husband, Jim, now live in | ||||||
| 21 | Chebanse, Illinois and have six children; therefore, be it
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| 1 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 2 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 3 | congratulate Christy Alexander on being named the Front Line | ||||||
| 4 | Forensic Nurse of the Year by the International Association of | ||||||
| 5 | Forensic Nurses; and be it further
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| 6 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 7 | presented to Christy Alexander as an expression of our esteem | ||||||
| 8 | and respect.
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