Trauma Healing and Resilience Investment for Victimized and Exposed Youth Act.
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Overview
This bill creates the Trauma Healing and Resilience Investment for Victimized and Exposed Youth Act (T.H.R.I.V.E.) to provide mental health and counseling services to youth survivors of gun violence. The state Department of Health Care Services will administer grants to counties and cities to establish these programs. These programs will be for youth who request services and live in the county or city. The bill also requires policies to ensure equitable access to services, prohibiting denial based on other funding sources and requiring timely appointments for youth survivors. It establishes a fund to support these initiatives and mandates confidentiality for client information.
Key provisions
- Creates the T.H.R.I.V.E. grant program for mental health services for youth survivors of gun violence.
- Requires counties and cities to establish and administer programs to provide these services.
- Establishes a Trauma Healing and Resilience Investment for Victimized and Exposed Youth Fund.
- Mandates policies to ensure equitable access to services, regardless of other funding sources.
- Requires timely appointment availability (within 5 business days for certain survivors) for nonurgent mental health appointments.
- Requires health care service plans to offer appointments within 5 business days for youth survivors of gun violence.
- Requires client information and records to be kept confidential.
- Defines ‘youth survivor of gun violence’ for the purposes of the program.
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