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1 AN ACT concerning health.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Task
5 Force for a Healing-Centered Illinois Act.
6 Section 5. Findings. The General Assembly makes the
7 following findings:
8 (1) The short-term, long-term, and multi-generational
9 impacts of trauma are well-documented and include
10 increased risk for reduced life expectancy, cancer,
11 cardiovascular disease, diabetes, smoking, substance
12 abuse, depression, unplanned pregnancies, low birth
13 weight, and suicide attempts as well as workplace
14 absenteeism, unemployment, lower educational achievement,
15 and lower wages.
16 (2) Trauma-informed and healing-centered principles,
17 policies, and practices can prevent and mitigate the
18 adverse health and social outcomes associated with trauma.
19 (3) Equitable strategies and a multisector approach
20 are needed to ensure that all residents at every stage of
21 life have the supports at home and in their communities
22 that build well-being, buffer against negative
23 experiences, foster healing, and make it possible to
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1 thrive.
2 (4) The State of Illinois is a national leader in
3 supporting trauma-informed strategies and is committed to
4 becoming a trauma-informed and healing-centered State.
5 (5) The State of Illinois has previously recognized
6 the impact of trauma on its residents' health and
7 well-being, including through Trauma-Informed Awareness
8 resolutions in 2019, 2021, and 2022, the creation of the
9 Whole Child Task Force in 2021, and the Children's Mental
10 Health Transformation Initiative established in 2022.
11 (6) The State of Illinois has public entities, such as
12 the State Board of Education, the Department of Human
13 Services, the Department of Juvenile Justice, the
14 Department of Public Health, and the Illinois Criminal
15 Justice Information Authority, non-governmental entities,
16 such as the Illinois Childhood Trauma Coalition and the
17 Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative, and public-private
18 entities, such as the Illinois Children's Mental Health
19 Partnership, leading efforts related to being
20 trauma-informed and healing-centered.
21 (7) Better coordination and alignment of existing
22 trauma-informed and healing-centered activities among
23 public and non-governmental agencies will lead to more
24 effective, equitable, and consistently high-quality
25 implementation of services and supports to Illinois
26 residents.
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1 (8) Designing a sustainable structure to support and
2 measure trauma-informed, healing-centered activities is
3 essential to long-term transformation and should take into
4 consideration the importance of providing ongoing training
5 and support to the multisector, multidisciplinary
6 workforce, as well as ongoing research to inform the
7 development and implementation of trauma-informed,
8 healing-centered policies, practices, and programs.
9 Section 10. Purpose. The Healing-Centered Illinois Task
10 Force is created to advance the State's efforts to become
11 trauma-informed and healing-centered through improved
12 alignment of existing efforts, common definitions and metrics,
13 and strategic planning for long-term transformation. The Task
14 Force shall have the following objectives:
15 (1) Recommend shared language and common definitions
16 for the State to become trauma-informed and
17 healing-centered across sectors by aligning language and
18 definitions included in the work of the Whole Child Task
19 Force, the Children's Mental Health Transformation
20 Initiative, and the Illinois Children's Mental Health
21 Plan.
22 (2) Ensure the meaningful inclusion in Task Force
23 matters of young people, parents, survivors of trauma, and
24 residents who have engaged with Illinois systems or
25 policies, such as child welfare and the legal criminal
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1 system.
2 (3) Identify the current training capacity and the
3 training needs to support healing-centered and
4 trauma-informed environments among organizations,
5 professional cohorts, educational institutions, and future
6 practitioners and project how best to meet those needs.
7 (4) Design a process identifying what data are needed
8 to understand the dimensions of trauma in the State and
9 the status of the trauma-related work in Illinois and
10 identify current relevant data sources in Illinois.
11 (5) Recommend a process for collecting and aggregating
12 such data identified, as well as a process for improving
13 transparency and accountability by developing and
14 maintaining a platform of aggregated data that is
15 accessible to a range of stakeholders, including the
16 public.
17 (6) Identify existing State resources that are being
18 invested to support trauma-informed and healing-centered
19 work, develop recommendations to align these resources,
20 and propose an approach and recommendations to support
21 ongoing or expanded stable resources for this work.
22 (7) Identify what, if any, administrative or
23 legislative policy changes are needed to advance goals to
24 make Illinois a healing-centered or trauma-informed State.
25 (8) Recommend an overarching organizational structure
26 to ensure coordination, alignment, and progress to make
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1 Illinois a trauma-informed, healing-centered State.
2 (9) Devise a set of benchmarks to measure success in
3 advancing the State toward becoming trauma-informed and
4 healing-centered and a process for measuring them.
5 Section 15. Membership. Members of the Healing-Centered
6 Illinois Task Force must represent the diversity of this State
7 and possess the expertise needed to perform the work required
8 to meet the objectives of the Task Force set forth under
9 Section 10. Members of the Task Force shall include the
10 following:
11 (1) One representative of a statewide coalition
12 addressing childhood trauma, appointed by the Lieutenant
13 Governor.
14 (2) One representative of a statewide collaborative
15 addressing trauma across the lifespan (birth through older
16 adulthood), appointed by the Lieutenant Governor.
17 (3) One representative from the Resilience Education
18 to Advance Community Healing (REACH) Statewide Initiative,
19 appointed by the Superintendent of the Illinois State
20 Board of Education.
21 (4) One member of the General Assembly, appointed by
22 the President of the Senate.
23 (5) One member of the General Assembly, appointed by
24 the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
25 (6) One member of the General Assembly, appointed by
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1 the Minority Leader of the Senate.
2 (7) One member of the General Assembly, appointed by
3 the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives.
4 (8) The Director of the Governor's Children's Mental
5 Health Transformation Initiative or the Director's
6 designee.
7 (9) The Director of the Illinois Criminal Justice
8 Information Authority or the Director's designee.
9 (10) The Director of Public Health or the Director's
10 designee.
11 (11) The Secretary of Human Services or the
12 Secretary's designee.
13 (12) The State Superintendent of Education or the
14 State Superintendent's designee.
15 (13) The Director of Juvenile Justice or the
16 Director's designee.
17 (14) The Director of Corrections or the Director's
18 designee.
19 (15) The Director of Children and Family Services or
20 the Director's designee.
21 (16) The Director of Aging or the Director's designee.
22 (17) The Director of Healthcare and Family Services or
23 the Director's designee.
24 (18) The Chair of the Illinois Law Enforcement
25 Training Standards Board or the Chair's designee.
26 (19) The Director of the Administrative Office of the
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1 Illinois Courts or the Director's designee.
2 (20) Up to 5 additional representatives appointed by
3 the Lieutenant Governor who have expertise in
4 trauma-informed policies and practices within health care,
5 public health, public education, the criminal legal
6 system, violence prevention, child welfare, human
7 services, adult behavioral health services, children's
8 behavioral health services, or law enforcement.
9 (21) Up to 3 representatives who have been impacted by
10 State systems, including the criminal legal system and
11 child welfare, appointed by the Lieutenant Governor.
12 (22) At least one representative from student and
13 youth counsels or advisory groups focused on advancing
14 awareness and resources for mental health and
15 trauma-informed services in diverse communities across the
16 State, appointed by the Lieutenant Governor.
17 (23) At least one representative from an organization
18 that brings parents together to improve mental health and
19 supports for children and families, appointed by the
20 Lieutenant Governor.
21 (24) One representative from a public-private
22 partnership to support children's behavioral health,
23 appointed by the Lieutenant Governor.
24 Section 20. Meetings. The Healing-Centered Illinois Task
25 Force shall meet at the call of the Lieutenant Governor or his
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1 or her designee, who shall serve as the chairperson. The
2 Office of the Lieutenant Governor shall provide administrative
3 support to the Task Force. Members of the Task Force shall
4 serve without compensation except those designated by the
5 Lieutenant Governor at the time of appointment as community or
6 system-impacted people may receive stipends as compensation
7 for their time.
8 Section 25. Reports. The Healing-Centered Illinois Task
9 Force shall submit a report of its findings and
10 recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor
11 within one year after the effective date of this Act. The Task
12 Force is dissolved, and this Act is repealed, one year after
13 the date of the report.
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