SANE Supervisor
Avera Health
Sioux Falls, SD
Jen Canton is the SANE Supervisor at Avera in Sioux Falls and the project director for two Dept of Justice grants awarded to expand post-sexual assault care to underserved areas. She has been an RN for 17 years, 9 of them as a forensic nurse. She started her nursing career in the ICU and ER before following her true passion of caring for patients who experience interpersonal violence full-time. Jennifer earned an Associates in the Applied Science of Nursing from Walters State, a Bachelors in the Science of Nursing from Presentation College and a Masters in Forensic Nursing from Duquesne University. She has earned her certifications as a CCRN, CEN, TCRN, SANE-A and SANE-P. She also works for Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis as a forensic nurse specialist and is a member of the Minnehaha/Lincoln County SART team and the SD Statewide Sexual Assault Taskforce. Jen also consults on three other federal grants and assists with instructing SANE clinicals skills labs across the upper Midwest states. When she is not working, Jennifer enjoys spending time with her 4 children and traveling to new places.
