For all examiners regardless of medical licensure type.

• Next date TBD: (email [email protected] to receive the Zoom link)
  • Gather with examiners from around the state via Zoom for this peer roundtable to discuss current events, ask questions, and seek ideas/feedback/suggestions for handling any and all things you might encounter such as particular case challenges, injury identification and documentation, staffing/administration, protocols/processes, recent court experiences/case outcomes, community partner interactions, and “What’s working/what’s not?”

• Future locations, TBA

To attend, participants must have taken a SANE-A or SANE-P didactic course. These trainings are offered free of charge, with financial support available, to enrolled members of the Montana SANE Scholars Training Program. For more information, visit the website Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Training – Montana Office of Rural Health and Area Health Education Center | Montana State University [healthinfo.montana.edu]

The MSU SANE Scholars Training Program is for or nurses only (RN, APRN, FN, and nursing students).

SANE-Adolescent/Adult and SANE-Pediatric Courses

• Sexual assault nurse examiner training – 40 hour didactic course and 2-day in-person clinicals.
• Didactic and skills course fees covered. $1,000 stipend upon completion (completing Montana-led didactic course Sept/Oct 2026 qualifies). Travel stipends available

SANE-Intimate Partner Violence Online Course

• $300 stipend upon completion

Other trainings

• $200 stipend upon completion of each of the following online modules: Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners in the Courtroom; Caring for Indigenous Montanans; and Montana Health Equity.

Quarterly Gatherings/Peer Support

Next date TBD (email [email protected] to receive information on how to participate)

• Gather with prosecutors from across Montana for a peer sounding board on questions/challenges you bring to the table, including issues like:
• • “Should I charge it?”
  • “We charged it, but something significant happened; how do I handle this case problem?”
  • Sentencing issues/proposals
  • Review of case resolutions: what worked and what didn’t?
• typically offering 1 CLE Credit

If you seek feedback/suggestions, be prepared to briefly share case facts with the group. You do not have to bring a case and can just come to share in the discussion as we learn together.

Sexual Assault Investigation (virtual)

• Complete this online course, available 24/7, for 10 POST credits.
• To enroll, please email [email protected].