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SB-1003 Trauma-Informed Care Training Certification Program.(2021-2022)

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Date Published: 05/20/2022 10:36 AM
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Amended  IN  Senate  May 19, 2022
Amended  IN  Senate  March 08, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill
No. 1003

Introduced by Senator Eggman
(Coauthor: Senator Rubio)

February 14, 2022

An act to add Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 131400) to Part 1 of Division 112 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 1003, as amended, Eggman. Trauma-Informed Care Training Certification Program.
Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health within the California Health and Human Services Agency. Existing law authorizes the department to perform activities relating to the protection, preservation, and advancement of public health, including evaluations of existing projects and the provision of training programs.
This bill would create the Trauma-Informed Care Training Certification Program under the State Department of Public Health for the purpose of approving Trauma-Informed Care Training providers and certifying training programs. certifying trauma-informed care training programs for employees of victim-witness programs, sexual assault victim programs, and other community-based programs that offer services to victims of crime. The bill would require the department to approve trainings provided by state or local agencies, nonprofit organizations, or educational institutions with demonstrated expertise and experience working with victims of violent crime and mass casualty events. a state or local agency, nonprofit organization, or educational institution’s trauma-informed care training program to be certified by the department. The bill would also require the department to approve and certify all Trauma- Informed Care Training courses trauma-informed care training programs that meet certain criteria, including, among other things, courses programs that provide a minimum of 40 hours of training, and teaches training and teach the major tenets of trauma-informed care, as specified. The bill would set forth legislative findings and declarations in support of these provisions.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) Victims, witnesses, and family members of those impacted by violent crime and mass casualty events experience deep trauma with impacts lasting their entire lives.
(b) The failure to effectively treat and respond to trauma has resulted in chronic mental health disorders and contributed to community violence.
(c) Trauma-informed care is a framework for providing direct services that recognize and are responsive to the signs, symptoms, and risk of trauma and retraumatization of victims of violence and crime.
(d) The major tenets of trauma-informed care include: (1) understanding the prevalence and impact of trauma, including the effects on health, mental health, and behavior; (2) integrating knowledge about trauma and violence into policies, procedures, practices, and services; and (3) avoiding retraumatization by engaging victims and survivors of crime and violence with nonjudgmental, responsive, and effective practices grounded in research.
(e) Existing victim service training programs do not mandate training in trauma-informed care.
(f) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish a statewide certified trauma-informed care training certification program to ensure trauma-informed care training programs better serve the needs of victims, witnesses, and family members of those impacted by violent crime and mass casualty.

SEC. 2.

 Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 131400) is added to Part 1 of Division 112 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:
CHAPTER  4. Trauma-Informed Care Training Certification Program

131400.
 (a) The State Department of Public Health shall establish the Trauma-Informed Care Training Program, for the purpose of approving Trauma-Informed Care Training providers and certifying training programs. Certification Program to certify trauma-informed care training programs for employees of victim-witness programs, sexual assault victim programs, and other community-based programs that offer services to victims of crime.

(b)The department shall approve state or local agencies, nonprofit organizations, or educational institutions with demonstrated expertise and experience working with victims of violent crime and mass casualty events or providing trauma-informed training as providers of Trauma-Informed Care Training.

(b) A state or local agency, nonprofit organization, or educational institution that chooses to offer training as described in subdivision (a) shall certify its trauma-informed care training program with the department.
(c) The department shall approve and certify all Trauma-Informed Care Training courses that meet certify a trauma-informed care training program that meets all of the following criteria:
(1) Provides a minimum of 40 hours of training, which may be conducted in-person or using remote technology.
(2) Teaches the major tenets of trauma-informed care, including, but not limited to:
(A) Understanding the prevalence and impact of trauma, including the effects on physical health, mental health, and behavior.
(B) Integrating knowledge about trauma and violence into policies, procedures, practices, and services.
(C) Avoiding retraumatization by engaging victims and survivors of crime and violence with nonjudgmental, responsive, and effective practices grounded in research.
(3) Teaches the guiding principles of trauma-informed care, including, but not limited to:
(A) Establishing physical and emotional safety for survivors and loved ones.
(B) Building trust between survivors and service providers.
(C) Recognizing the signs and symptoms of trauma and how it impacts people.
(D) Promoting survivor-centered, evidence-based care.
(E) Ensuring collaboration and partnership with survivors to have agency in determining their own needs toward healing and recovery.
(F) Providing services and care that is grounded in survivors’ intersecting identities of race, ethnicity, culture, gender, ability, and sexual identities.
(4) Meets Ensures participants can demonstrate all of the following training objectives:
(A) Participants demonstrate advance Advance knowledge of trauma types, impact of trauma, and effects of trauma.
(B) Participants demonstrate awareness Awareness of skills for responding to victims of violence and crime.
(C) Participants demonstrate understanding of Understanding strategies for applying trauma-informed responses with survivors.
(D) Participants demonstrate understanding of anti-racist Understanding antiracist and anti-oppression theory and cultural humility.
(E) Participants demonstrate knowledge Knowledge of risk and symptoms of secondary trauma and self-care.
(5) Includes, but is not limited to, any of the following content:
(A) Types of traumas, trauma, including crime, violence, interpersonal violence, and mass casualties.
(B) Effects of trauma, including cognitive, affective, behavioral, and neurological effects of trauma.
(C) Understanding of the impact of childhood trauma and adverse childhood experiences.
(D) The cycle of violence violence, including risk factors, victimization, violence, and criminal behavior.
(E) Crisis theory, safety planning planning, and effective responses to crimes, violence, interpersonal violence, and mass casualties.
(F) Developing and implementing trauma-informed policies, practices practices, and services for crime survivors, including immediate and short-term models and strategies.
(G) Anti-oppression, anti-racism, antiracism, and cultural humility theory and practice.
(H) How to support survivors in healing and recovery.
(I) Secondary trauma and self-care.