Sexual Assault Training Institute (SATI) Program

Oregon SATF’s Sexual Assault Training Institute (SATI) program provides regular, high-quality and professional discipline-specific and multidisciplinary trainings to victim advocates, law enforcement officials, sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs), prosecutors, and sexual assault response teams, among others, which are intended to increase knowledge, skills and victim sensitivity.

Since 2000, we have trained over 20,000 professionals across Oregon and nationally in support of violence + abuse response and prevention.

Content focus areas under Oregon SATF’s Sexual Assault Training Institute

New, multidisciplinary trainings are offered in person and online, throughout the year! Please click the button below to learn about our current and upcoming training offerings.

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Sexual Assault-specific 40-hour Confidential Advocate Certification Training

  • Advocate Training is a 40-hour comprehensive basic sexual assault training for those seeking advocate certification or those providing other support services to sexual assault survivors.

    The training covers the foundational topics of sexual assault advocacy in supporting adult and adolescent survivors. Advocates learn how to provide victim-centered, trauma informed responses to survivors and the skills to safely advocate for survivors in their community and the justice system.

    Each training includes additional topics tailored to cover current and emerging challenges affecting survivors and advocacy programs in Oregon.

    This training meets the requirements for those seeking certification to be confidential and privileged advocates under HB 3476.

  • The main topics covered in this training include:

    • dynamics of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking

    • anti-oppression, anti-racism and cultural reflexivity

    • effects of trauma on survivors and family members

    • child and adolescent survivors

    • adults molested as children

    • perpetrator/abuser dynamics

    • advocacy skills and crisis response

    • confidentiality and privilege

    • working with system-based partners and other service providers

    • vicarious trauma and self-care

    • victim’s rights and privacy

    • campus response

    • SANE exams

    Each training includes additional topics tailored to cover current and emerging challenges affecting survivors and advocacy programs in Oregon.

    This training meets the requirements for those seeking certification to be confidential and privileged advocates under HB 3476.

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE)/ Sexual Assault Examiner (SAE) Training

  • Oregon SATF supports sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) and sexual assault examiners (SAEs) across Oregon by providing 40-hour adult/adolescent basic SANE/SAE training and advanced training such as:

    • mock exams,

    • expert witness training,

    • other in-person trainings,

    • and webinars on a variety of topics.

    If you have a suggestion for a particular topic that is not listed here, please e-mail taskforce@oregonsatf.org and we will make note of your interest.

  • More information coming soon

Law Enforcement + Prosecutor Training

  • Our training aims to increase the capacity of Law Enforcement and Prosecutors to effectively respond to, investigate and prosecute sexual assault crimes by providing sexual assault specific training.

    This training equips participants to implement new and emerging techniques and best practices in sexual assault investigation and prosecution.

  • Trainings are discipline specific, and customized to the intended audience.

    Sample topics include:

    • Neurobiology of trauma,

    • Sexual assault dynamics,

    • Techniques for investigation and prosecution,

    • Report writing,

    • Serial sex offenders.

Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Training + Technical Assistance

  • Oregon SATF provides technical assistance, support and training for developing SARTs or emerging SART efforts across the state.

    Areas of support may include:

    • protocol development,

    • goal setting,

    • establishing benchmarks,

    • tracking trends,

    • effective meetings,

    • creating a community presence,

    • sample materials,

    • peer-to-peer support from other SARTs, and more.

  • The Sexual Assault Training Institute provides SART Development & Sustainability Workshops to communities who want to develop an effective SART response or reinvigorate their current SART efforts.

    To schedule a training for your community, please contact our team at taskforce@oregonsatf.org.

  • This training is designed for members of the multidisciplinary response to sexual assault. The training is a presentation of a sexual assault case scenario from first disclosure to trial preparation with presentations from advocacy, law enforcement, prosecution and SANE. Participants engage in team problem solving activities dispersed throughout the program.

    Contact our team at taskforce@oregonsatf.org for more information or to schedule a training in your community.

Statewide Comprehensive Violence + Abuse Prevention Training

  • Since 2018, Oregon SATF provides our statewide Comprehensive Violence + Abuse Prevention Training annually, rotating our location across the state.

    Informed by national and Oregon-specific best practices for effective violence and abuse prevention, our goal is to further support, connect, and sustain participants and their collective community prevention efforts.

    Facilitated alongside community partners from across the state, and with flexible opportunities to choose sessions and topics that feel most relevant to the participant’s experience and practice, this training seeks to meet participants needs wherever they are at on their prevention journey.

    The goal: ensure that preventionists and communities across Oregon have the tools necessary to create comprehensive approaches to violence and abuse prevention.

  • This interactive, in-person training utilizes a variety of engagement strategies (ex. visual, auditory, physical) and a lot of skills practice and connection opportunities. The training will feature varied community partners and Oregon SATF staff as facilitators and cover at least the following topics:

    • Models and Theories of Prevention

    • Addressing Root Causes

    • Health Promotion as Prevention

    • Sustainable Prevention

    • Community and Participant Leadership

    • Intersections of Response and Prevention

    • Prevention Facilitation Strategies

    • Action Planning

    • Evaluation of Prevention

    • Expanding Prevention in your Communities

  • All participants receive a copy of Oregon SATF’s nationally-recognized Comprehensive Prevention Toolkit