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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6111
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 2631
Referred to Committee on COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN
Introduced by:
(KID)
AN ACT ESTABLISHING A YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION
PROGRAM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1
2022, the Youth Suicide Advisory board established pursuant to section 2
17a-52 of the general statutes and the Office of the Child Advocate, shall, 3
within available appropriations, jointly administer an evidence-based 4
youth suicide prevention pilot program. The pilot program shall 5
provide youth suicide prevention training to the following employee 6
groups: (1) School employees, as defined in section 10-222d of the 7
general statutes, (2) employees of youth service bureaus, (3) employees 8
of youth-serving organizations, (4) employees of operators of youth 9
athletic activities, as defined in section 21a-432 of the general statutes, 10
and (5) employees of municipal social service agencies. Such training 11
shall be provided to not less than twenty separate employee groups in 12
the state. With respect to school employees, such training may be 13
included as part of an in-service training program provided pursuant to 14
section 10-220a of the general statutes. 15 Raised Bill No. 6111
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(b) The Youth Suicide Advisory Board and the Office of the Child 16
Advocate shall jointly develop criteria for selecting the employee 17
groups that will receive training under the pilot program, provided such 18
criteria includes a provision that gives priority to those employee 19
groups that serve residents of a municipality in which a youth suicide 20
has occurred in the previous five-year period. 21
(c) The Youth Suicide Advisory Board and the Office of the Child 22
Advocate may contract with a nongovernmental entity that provides 23
evidence-based suicide prevention training to carry out the provisions 24
of this section. 25
(d) The Youth Suicide Advisory Board and the Office of the Child 26
Advocate may accept gifts, grants and donations from any source, 27
public or private, for the purposes of administering the pilot program. 28
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require the Youth Suicide Advisory Board and the Office of the Child
Advocate to establish a youth suicide prevention pilot program.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]