Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A. Education § 12988. Training for Title IX coordinators, campus safety personnel and individuals involved in the disciplinary process

A. Information about providing a trauma-informed response when working with and interviewing victims of an alleged incident of sexual violence, intimate partner violence or stalking;

B. Information on particular types of conduct that constitute sexual violence, intimate partner violence and stalking;

C. Information on affirmative consent and the role drugs and alcohol may play in an individual's ability to consent;

D. The effects of trauma, including any neurobiological impact on an individual;

E. Cultural competency training regarding how sexual violence, intimate partner violence and stalking may affect students differently depending on factors that contribute to a student's cultural background, including but not limited to national origin, sex, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation;

F. Methods of communicating sensitively and compassionately with a reporting party including, but not limited to, an awareness of responding to a reporting party with consideration of that party's cultural background and providing services to or assisting in locating services for the reporting party;

G. Training and information regarding how sexual violence, intimate partner violence and stalking may affect students with developmental or intellectual disabilities; and

H. Methods of communicating sensitively with a responding party, including an awareness of the emotional impact of an allegation of sexual violence, intimate partner violence and stalking.