Forensic nurse tells Streator audience about clinic for assault survivors

Survivors of sexual assault can seem fine for weeks or months before a physical or emotional reaction hits, and a clinic serving the I-80 corridor is built for that stretch, forensic nurse Tasha Arteaga told a Streator audience.Arteaga spoke at a domestic violence awareness program hosted by the Zonta Club of Streator at Park Church. The club held the program to remember victims and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Club President Linda Over welcomed participants and introduced Arteaga.Arteaga is the I-80 Region Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Coordinator for OSF HealthCare. She is a family and psychiatric nurse practitioner and forensic nurse who treats adult, adolescent and pediatric patients.She created the OSF Resilient Healing Follow-Up Clinic, where she provides ongoing medical, psychiatric, forensic and psychosocial care to people after sexual assault and other forms of interpersonal violence.The clinic is designed to help survivors in the weeks and months after t