Full Text of HR0375 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Behavioral healthcare disparities exist across | 3 | | Illinois, and these
disparities include underserved | 4 | | populations with behavioral health care needs as
one of their | 5 | | immediate, acute, chronic or co-morbid condition; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Behavioral health care disparities include | 7 | | racial, ethnic, and rural behavioral health disparities, | 8 | | underserved, or professional shortage areas; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, The mental well-being of young people and their | 10 | | ability to not use
alcohol or other drugs is strongly linked to | 11 | | their academic success; helping
students stay healthy is a | 12 | | fundamental mission of schools; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, According to the US Surgeon General, | 14 | | approximately 50% of children
with emotional disturbances and | 15 | | behavioral disturbances drop out of school; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, According to the Centers for Disease Control, | 17 | | suicides are among the
leading cause of death for the ages of | 18 | | 15 through 54; and | 19 | | WHEREAS, County coroners in Illinois report that in some | 20 | | counties the suicide
rate has doubled since 2002 while in other |
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| 1 | | counties the suicide rate has increased
in recent years; and | 2 | | WHEREAS, According to the Department of Defense Annual | 3 | | Suicide Report,
suicides in the military started climbing | 4 | | considerably in 2005, and the trend has
not abated; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, Cook County Jail is the largest "mental | 6 | | institution" in the State due to
its active inpatient | 7 | | psychiatric population, and there are over 1700 people on
| 8 | | psychotropic medication for treatment of bipolar disorder, | 9 | | clinical depression,
and schizoaffective disorder in the jail; | 10 | | and | 11 | | WHEREAS, In Cook County Jail, 80% of the women who are | 12 | | there have a
chronic mental illness, and 80% of the women in | 13 | | that jail are the sole
caretakers of their children; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, Illinois courts, municipal and county jails, and | 15 | | the juvenile justice
system have direct contact with many | 16 | | individuals who could be diverted away
from these systems if | 17 | | behavioral health care services were available to them; | 18 | | therefore, be it | 19 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 20 | | NINETY-EIGHTH
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 21 | | the Governor, through the use of
education, outreach, |
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| 1 | | technology, and innovation, should seek to empower and engage | 2 | | individuals
and communities where behavioral healthcare | 3 | | disparities exist; and be it further | 4 | | RESOLVED, That we urge the administration to work with the | 5 | | 98th General Assembly to
develop strategies to remediate | 6 | | behavioral health disparities in areas and regions of the State | 7 | | with
poor access to behavioral health care treatment or | 8 | | services, with high rates of trauma, or with
high rates of | 9 | | acute or chronic behavioral health illnesses; strategies to | 10 | | remediate behavioral
health care disparities may include work | 11 | | force development so that primary care physicians
and | 12 | | behavioral health care clinicians would be encouraged to | 13 | | practice in areas with
behavioral health disparities; and be it | 14 | | further | 15 | | RESOLVED, That we encourage the administration to call on | 16 | | the Department of
Human Services in collaboration with the | 17 | | Department of Healthcare and Family Services to
identify a | 18 | | method to establish pilots for Health Homes, Systems of Care, | 19 | | and Essential
Community Behavioral Health Care Providers to | 20 | | address the racial, ethnic, and rural
behavioral health | 21 | | disparities, underserved populations, and underserved areas or | 22 | | professional
shortage designated areas; and be it further
| 23 | | RESOLVED, That we encourage the administration to include |
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| 1 | | in Department of
Human Services data collation a standardize | 2 | | collection and analysis of data on the
impact on racial, | 3 | | ethnic, and rural health care disparities, underserved | 4 | | populations, and
underserved or professional shortage | 5 | | designated areas; and be it further
| 6 | | RESOLVED, That we encourage the administration to create an | 7 | | Illinois
Behavioral Health Innovation Prize; the Illinois | 8 | | Behavioral Innovation Prize
would provide public recognition | 9 | | for a new intervention or program that successfully
reduces or | 10 | | eliminates behavioral healthcare disparities; the goal of the | 11 | | prize is to broaden
the scope of community participation and | 12 | | discover new solutions that can be copied and
employed | 13 | | throughout the State; and be it further
| 14 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 15 | | delivered to Governor Pat Quinn
and the Secretary of Human | 16 | | Services.
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