---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 115.335"
title: "28"
number: "115.335"
heading: "Specialized training: Medical and mental health care."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/115.335"
---

# §115.335. Specialized training: Medical and mental health care.

- (a) The agency shall ensure that all full- and part-time medical and mental health care practitioners who work regularly in its facilities have been trained in:
  - (1) How to detect and assess signs of sexual abuse and sexual harassment;
  - (2) How to preserve physical evidence of sexual abuse;
  - (3) How to respond effectively and professionally to juvenile victims of sexual abuse and sexual harassment; and
  - (4) **How and to whom to report allegations or suspicions of sexual abuse and sexual harassment.**
- (b) If medical staff employed by the agency conduct forensic examinations, such medical staff shall receive the appropriate training to conduct such examinations.
- (c) The agency shall maintain documentation that medical and mental health practitioners have received the training referenced in this standard either from the agency or elsewhere.
- (d) Medical and mental health care practitioners shall also receive the training mandated for employees under [§ 115.331](/cfr/28/115.331.md) or for contractors and volunteers under [§ 115.332](/cfr/28/115.332.md), depending upon the practitioner's status at the agency.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510; 42 U.S.C. 15601-15609.

### Source

Source: AG Order No. 3331-2012, 77 FR 37197, June 20, 2012, unless otherwise noted.