Trauma Healing and Resilience Investment for Victimized and Exposed Youth Act.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not specify which counties will be eligible to receive grants under this program.

Trauma Healing and Resilience Investment for Victimized and Exposed Youth Act

The bill creates a pilot program called T.H.R.I.V.E. to provide mental health services for youth survivors of gun violence in specified counties.

What This Bill Does

• Creates the Trauma Healing and Resilience Investment for Victimized and Exposed Youth Act (T.H.R.I.V.E.) as a pilot program.
• Allows specified counties to apply for grants from the State Department of Health Care Services to pay for mental health services for youth survivors of gun violence.
• Requires these counties to have policies that allow youth or their parents/guardians to attest to experiences of gun violence without needing external proof.
• Ensures youth are not denied help just because they have other funding sources that can't cover all costs.
• Requires the State Department of Health Care Services to report annually on how T.H.R.I.V.E. is working.

Who It Names or Affects

• Youth survivors of gun violence in specified counties
• Parents or guardians of youth survivors who are minors
• Counties that receive grants for mental health services

Terms To Know

T.H.R.I.V.E.

Trauma Healing and Resilience Investment for Victimized and Exposed Youth Act, a pilot program to help youth survivors of gun violence.

Grant

Money given by the government to support specific projects or services.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill only applies to specified counties and does not cover all areas.
• It is a pilot program that will end on January 1, 2032.
• Details about which counties are eligible for the grants have not been specified.

Official Summary Text

AB 2247, as amended, Elhawary.
Trauma Healing and Resilience Investment for Victimized and Exposed Youth Act.
Existing law generally provides for the compensation of victims and derivative victims of specified types of crimes by the California Victim Compensation Board from the Restitution Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, for specified losses suffered as a result of those crimes. Existing law sets forth eligibility requirements and limits on the amount of compensation that the board may award, and requires the application for compensation to be verified under penalty of perjury.
This bill would create
a pilot program,
the Trauma Healing and Resilience Investment for Victimized and Exposed Youth Act
(T.H.R.I.V.E.)
(T.H.R.I.V.E.),
to be administered by the State Department of Health Care Services for the administration of grants to
a county or city and county
specified counties
to establish and administer a program to pay for mental health and counseling services for youth survivors of gun violence, as defined, who request those services and who reside in the
county or city and
county. The bill would require policies and procedures for distributing funds to meet certain requirements, including, among other things, allowing youth survivors of gun violence, or their parents or guardians for survivors who are minors, to attest to their experiences of gun violence without requiring external documentation of the gun
violence incident. The bill would prohibit a youth survivor of gun violence from being denied assistance solely on the basis of having another source of funding for mental health care services if that source is not able to fully cover services from the provider or peer support specialist of the youth survivor’s choosing at a rate that is reasonable for the type of service, licensure, and geographic area in which the youth survivor of gun violence resides, as specified. The bill would require the department to annually issue a public report posted on the department’s internet website regarding the impact of the T.H.R.I.V.E..
The bill would create the Trauma Healing and Resilience Investment for Victimized and Exposed Youth Fund to be used by the department for the purposes of this program, upon appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would make client information and records of mental health services provided to these provisions confidential.
The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2032.
Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.
This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

Current Bill Text

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