The Montana Office of Rural Health/AHEC, the North Dakota State University School of Nursing, the Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence (CNE), and Colleges of Nursing at the University of Colorado, Montana State University, South Dakota State University, Utah, and Wyoming have partnered to create a clinical nursing faculty & preceptor academy (CFPA) for the Rocky Mountain region. This program provides training and tools to strengthen and support our clinical nursing faculty and preceptors working in rural and frontier parts of the mountain west.