What's happening
This bill requires standardized training for all staff and volunteers at mental hygiene providers, covering abuse prevention, safety, first aid, and cultural competence.
Why it matters
Ensures all staff and volunteers at mental hygiene providers receive uniform, comprehensive training. , which aims to create consistent standards of care and reduce variation in how safety and abuse prevention are handled across different facilities.
Mandates education on recognizing and preventing abuse, neglect, and maltreatment. , potentially decreasing the risk of harm to people with disabilities by making frontline workers better equipped to identify and act on warning signs.
Requires training in fire safety, first aid, CPR, and cultural competence. , which could improve emergency response, save lives, and foster a more inclusive, respectful environment for individuals from diverse backgrounds.
Empowers the commissioner to update or add training topics as needed. , allowing the curriculum to remain relevant and responsive to emerging best practices or new risks in mental hygiene settings.
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Who cares
Office for People With Developmental Disabilities
The commissioner would have to adopt rules requiring a standardized training curriculum for employees and volunteers at providers the office licenses, certifies or operates.
OPWDD provider agencies
Their employees and volunteers would all be required to complete the standardized curriculum.
Provider employees and volunteers
Required training would cover abuse prevention, disability protection laws and procedures, safety and security, fire safety, first aid, CPR and cultural competence.
People with developmental disabilities
The curriculum would address protecting people with disabilities from abuse, neglect and maltreatment.
Headline styles
Standardize Mental Health Training
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
2 Co-sponsors
History
- Referred to mental health
- Referred to mental health
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5379
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 8, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to standardized training curriculum requirements
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 13.23 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new subdivision (d) to read as follows:
(d) The commissioner shall adopt rules and regulations requiring all persons who are employed or volunteering at a provider licensed, certified or operated by the office to complete a standardized training curriculum consistent with this chapter. Such curriculum shall include, but not be limited to: (i) abuse, neglect and maltreatment indication and prevention, (ii) laws, regulations and procedures governing the protection of persons with disabilities from abuse, neglect and maltreatment, (iii) identification, safety and security procedures, (iv) fire safety, (v) first aid, (vi) cardiopulmonary resuscitation, (vii) cultural competence, and (viii) any other appropriate topic.
§ 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08934-01-7
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