RISE from Trauma Act

Bill: 116-hr-3180
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Crimes against children
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Family services
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Hospital care
Humanities programs funding
Law enforcement administration and funding
Mental health
Minority education
National and community service
Performance measurement
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: 

Resilience Investment, Support, and Expansion from Trauma Act or the RISE from Trauma Act

 
 This bill establishes and extends various programs to coordinate and support services for infants, children, youth, and families who have experienced, or may experience, trauma. These programs include 
 
 
grants to establish coordinating bodies to create strategic plans to address trauma based on community needs;
 
extending through FY2024 the performance partnership pilot program for children who have experienced trauma; 
 
recruiting individuals from communities that have high levels of trauma into the AmeriCorps and the National Health Service Corps programs;
 
grants providing comprehensive services and long-term case management to individuals who have been admitted to hospitals for drug overdoses, suicide attempts, or violent injury;
 
grants to states to ensure that health insurance plans comply with mental health parity rules; 
 
grants providing arts programming for children who have experienced trauma; and
 
reporting and guidance-issuing requirements for various agencies relating to how federal programs are addressing trauma. 
 
 
Additionally, the bill establishes (1) clinical and early childhood workforce development programs, (2) training and support programs, and (3) toolkits for front-line service providers. The bill also (1) provides grants for clinical training in institutions of higher education, (2) expands the Teacher Quality Partnership grants program, (3) provides grants to support and prevent childhood exposure to substance abuse and violence, and (4) establishes the National Law Enforcement Child and Youth Trauma Coordinating Center to assist local juvenile justice agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in House