Full Text of HB1643 95th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning public health.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Suicide Prevention, Education, and | 5 |
| Treatment Act is amended by changing Sections 10, 13, 15, 20, | 6 |
| 25, and 30 as follows: | 7 |
| (410 ILCS 53/10)
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| Sec. 10. Definitions.
For the purpose of this Act, unless | 9 |
| the context otherwise requires: | 10 |
| "Alliance" means the Illinois Suicide Prevention Alliance.
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| "Committee" means the Illinois Suicide Prevention | 12 |
| Strategic Planning Committee. | 13 |
| "Department" means the Department of Public Health.
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| "Plan" means the Illinois Suicide Prevention Strategic | 15 |
| Plan set forth in Section 15.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-907, eff. 8-11-04.) | 17 |
| (410 ILCS 53/13)
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| Sec. 13. Duration; report. All projects set forth in this | 19 |
| Act must be at least 3 years in duration, and the Department | 20 |
| and related contracts as well as the Illinois Suicide | 21 |
| Prevention Alliance
Suicide Prevention Strategic Planning | 22 |
| Committee must report annually to the Governor and General |
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| Assembly on the effectiveness of these activities and programs.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-907, eff. 8-11-04.) | 3 |
| (410 ILCS 53/15)
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| Sec. 15. Suicide Prevention Alliance
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| Committee .
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| (a) The Alliance
Committee is created as the official | 7 |
| grassroots creator, planner, monitor, and advocate for the | 8 |
| Illinois Suicide Prevention Strategic Plan. No later than one | 9 |
| year after the effective date of this Act, the Alliance
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| Committee shall review, finalize, and submit to the Governor | 11 |
| and the General Assembly the Illinois Suicide Prevention | 12 |
| Strategic Plan and appropriate processes and outcome | 13 |
| objectives for 10 overriding recommendations and a timeline for | 14 |
| reaching these objectives. | 15 |
| (b) The Alliance
Committee shall use the United States | 16 |
| Surgeon General's National Suicide Prevention Strategy as a | 17 |
| model for the Plan. The Alliance
Committee shall review the | 18 |
| statutorily prescribed missions of major State mental health, | 19 |
| health, aging, and school mental health programs and recommend, | 20 |
| as necessary and appropriate, statutory changes to include | 21 |
| suicide prevention in the missions and procedures of those | 22 |
| programs. The Alliance
Committee shall prepare a report of that | 23 |
| review, including its recommendations, and shall submit the | 24 |
| report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31, | 25 |
| 2004. |
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| (c) The Director of Public Health shall appoint the members | 2 |
| of the Alliance
Committee . The membership of the Alliance
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| Committee shall include, without limitation, representatives | 4 |
| of statewide organizations and other agencies that focus on the | 5 |
| prevention of suicide and the improvement of mental health | 6 |
| treatment or that provide suicide prevention or survivor | 7 |
| support services. Other disciplines that shall be considered | 8 |
| for membership on the Alliance
committee include law | 9 |
| enforcement, first responders, faith-based community leaders, | 10 |
| universities, and survivors of suicide (families and friends | 11 |
| who have lost persons to suicide) as well as consumers of | 12 |
| services of these agencies and organizations.
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| (d) The Alliance
committee shall meet at least 4 times a | 14 |
| year, and more as deemed necessary, in various sites statewide | 15 |
| in order to foster as much participation as possible. The | 16 |
| Alliance
Committee , a steering committee, and core members of | 17 |
| the full committee shall monitor and guide the definition and | 18 |
| direction of the goals of the full Alliance
Committee , shall | 19 |
| review and approve productions of the plan, and shall meet | 20 |
| before the full Alliance
Committee meetings.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-907, eff. 8-11-04.) | 22 |
| (410 ILCS 53/20)
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| Sec. 20. General awareness and screening program.
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| (a) The Department shall provide technical assistance for | 25 |
| the work of the Alliance
Committee and the production of the |
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| Plan and shall distribute general information and screening | 2 |
| tools for suicide prevention to the general public through | 3 |
| local public health departments throughout the State. These | 4 |
| materials shall be distributed to agencies, schools, | 5 |
| hospitals, churches, places of employment, and all related | 6 |
| professional caregivers to educate all citizens about warning | 7 |
| signs and interventions that all persons can do to stop the | 8 |
| suicidal cycle. | 9 |
| (b) This program shall include, without limitation, all of | 10 |
| the following: | 11 |
| (1) Educational programs about warning signs and how to | 12 |
| help suicidal individuals. | 13 |
| (2) Educational presentations about suicide risk and | 14 |
| how to help at-risk people in special populations and with | 15 |
| bilingual support to special cultures. | 16 |
| (3) The designation of an annual suicide awareness week | 17 |
| or month to include a public awareness campaign on suicide. | 18 |
| (4) A statewide suicide prevention conference before | 19 |
| November of 2004. | 20 |
| (5) An Illinois Suicide Prevention Speaker's Bureau. | 21 |
| (6) A program to educate the media regarding the | 22 |
| guidelines developed by the American Association for | 23 |
| Suicidology for coverage of suicides and to encourage media | 24 |
| cooperation in adopting these guidelines in reporting | 25 |
| suicides. | 26 |
| (7) Increased training opportunities for volunteers, |
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| professionals, and other caregivers to develop specific | 2 |
| skills for assessing suicide risk and intervening to | 3 |
| prevent suicide.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-907, eff. 8-11-04.) | 5 |
| (410 ILCS 53/25)
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| Sec. 25. Additional duties of the Alliance
Committee .
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| Alliance
Committee shall: | 8 |
| (1) Act as an advisor and lead consultant on the | 9 |
| design, implementation, and evaluation of all programs | 10 |
| outlined in this Act. | 11 |
| (2) Establish interagency policy and procedures among | 12 |
| appropriate agencies for the collaboration and | 13 |
| coordination needed to implement the programs outlined in | 14 |
| this Act.
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| (3) Design, review, select, and monitor proposals for | 16 |
| the implementation of these activities in agencies | 17 |
| throughout the State.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-907, eff. 8-11-04.) | 19 |
| (410 ILCS 53/30)
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| Sec. 30. Suicide prevention pilot programs. | 21 |
| (a) The Department shall establish, when funds are | 22 |
| appropriated, up to 5 pilot programs that provide training and | 23 |
| direct service programs relating to youth, elderly, special | 24 |
| populations, high-risk populations, and professional |
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| caregivers. The purpose of these pilot programs is to | 2 |
| demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness of the projects set | 3 |
| forth in this Act in the communities in which they are offered. | 4 |
| The pilot programs shall be operational for at least 2 years of | 5 |
| the 3-year requirement set forth in Section 13. | 6 |
| (b) The Director of Public Health is encouraged to ensure | 7 |
| that the pilot programs include the following prevention | 8 |
| strategies: | 9 |
| (1) school gatekeeper and faculty training;
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| (2) community gatekeeper training; | 11 |
| (3) general community suicide prevention education; | 12 |
| (4) health providers and physician training and | 13 |
| consultation about high-risk cases; | 14 |
| (5) depression, anxiety, and suicide screening | 15 |
| programs;
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| (6) peer support youth and older adult programs;
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| (7) the enhancement of 24-hour crisis centers, | 18 |
| hotlines, and person-to-person calling trees; | 19 |
| (8) means restriction advocacy and collaboration; and
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| (9) intervening and supporting after a suicide.
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| (c) The funds appropriated for purposes of this Section | 22 |
| shall be allocated by the Department on a competitive, | 23 |
| grant-submission basis, which shall include consideration of | 24 |
| different rates of risk of suicide based on age, ethnicity, | 25 |
| gender, prevalence of mental health disorders, different rates | 26 |
| of suicide based on geographic areas in Illinois, and the |
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| services and curriculum offered to fit these needs by the | 2 |
| applying agency. | 3 |
| (d) The Department and Alliance
Committee shall prepare a | 4 |
| report as to the effectiveness of the demonstration projects | 5 |
| established pursuant to this Section and submit that report no | 6 |
| later than 6 months after the projects are completed to the | 7 |
| Governor and General Assembly.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-907, eff. 8-11-04.)
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