This training will focus on different physical exam findings that a SANE may encounter during a sexual assault medical forensic exam and how to appropriately document these findings. Participants will learn how about various definitions and key characteristics and differences, using real exam photos.

This training is designed for SANEs, advocates, prosecutors and others handling sexual assault cases and working with sexual assault victims.

A series of trainings to inform medical providers in providing quality care to sexual assault victims. Various topics and trainers were included in the series.

Focus on the psychobiology and psychopharmacology of PTSD, relating this to commercially sexually exploited youth and inroads for trauma informed care in the medical setting in order to develop a patient centered, trauma informed collaborative approach to human trafficking in minors. Trainers: Dr. Dana Kaplan, Department of Pediatrics at Staten Island University Hospital and Dr. Natasha Jouk, Department of Pediatrics at Maimonides Medical Center/Infants and Children’s Hospital of Brooklyn

Illustrates trauma-informed approaches to delivering care and collecting evidence in the aftermath of sexual abuse. Trainers: Cynthia Totten, Deputy Executive Director, Just Detention International and Angelita Olowu, Forensic Nursing Director, International Association of Forensic Nurses

Gender-based violence often involves physical violence targeted at the head, neck, and face–through blows to the head or strangulation. Though this has been common knowledge for decades, brain injuries caused by violence are unacknowledged, rarely identified and almost never immediately treated. Trainer: Rachel Ramirez, The Center on Partner-Inflicted Brain Injury at the Ohio Domestic Violence Network

Understand legal and ethical confidentiality and privacy obligations governing service professionals, develop information-sharing norms, identify other select victims’ rights moments that arise in collaborations. Trainers: Amy Liu and Rebecca Khalil, National Crime Victim Law Institute

Overview of victims’ rights and why they matter to survivors and understand how advocates, medical personnel, law enforcement, attorneys and other allied professionals can help protect those rights. Trainers: Amy Liu and Rebecca Khalil, National Crime Victim Law Institute

Domestic abuse including power and coercive control dynamics will be defined and explained specifically in the context of separation, divorce, and child custody matters when domestic abuse is alleged. Trainers: Tracey Decker, JD & Krista Heeren-Graber, BSW, MS, LBSW, SD Network Against Family Violence and Sexual Assault

This training will help provers better understand the role that substance use plays for survivors of violence and provide real tools for policy, practice, and organizational culture. Trainer: Christina Love (she/her) – Indigenous Storyteller, Survivor, Multi-Level Advocate

After the training, participants will have a better understanding of: intersection between MMIP, human trafficking, sexual assault, and domestic violence; South Dakota human trafficking and MMIP trends; new human trafficking and MMIP training initiatives available in South Dakota; how to report suspected traffickers and what information to report.

This training will include guidelines for creating and maintaining a CV will be provided so nurses can be prepared to showcase their expertise in the event they are called into court. Examples of how to format a CV will be shown. Presented by Tracy Decker, SD Network Against Family Violence and Sexual Assault.

This training opportunity will provide SANEs an overview of the courtroom process and roles and strategies for effective testimony. Attorneys will gain insight into the role of SANEs and the information they can provide in the testimony process. Presented by Tracy Decker, SD Network Against Family Violence and Sexual Assault; Lara Roetzel, Pennington County State's Attorney's Office; Michael Moore, Beadle County State's Attorney's Office; Crystal Johnson, Minnehaha County State's Attorney's Office; and Jen Canton, Avera Health.

This training will focus on enhancing practices in supporting victims of sexual assault associated with the untested rape kit initiative. Presented by Marya L. Simmons, Founder and CEO of Shift in Notion Consulting, LLC