Full Text of SB3034 100th General Assembly
SB3034 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2017 and 2018 SB3034 Introduced 2/15/2018, by Sen. Chuck Weaver SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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20 ILCS 1705/33.3 | from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-33.3 |
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Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Department of Human Services annual plan for staff training.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning direct service staff.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental | 5 | | Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing Section | 6 | | 33.3 as follows:
| 7 | | (20 ILCS 1705/33.3) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-33.3)
| 8 | | Sec. 33.3. (a) The Department may
develop an annual plan | 9 | | for staff training. The plan
shall establish minimum training | 10 | | objectives and time frames and shall be
based on the assessment | 11 | | of needs of direct treatment staff. The plan shall
be developed | 12 | | using comments from employee representative organizations and
| 13 | | State and national professional and advocacy
groups. The | 14 | | training plan shall be available for public review and comment.
| 15 | | (b) A centralized pre-service training curriculum shall be | 16 | | developed
for classifications of employees of State-operated
| 17 | | facilities who have responsibility for direct patient care and | 18 | | whose
professional training and experience does not | 19 | | substantially include the
minimum training required under this | 20 | | Section, as determined by the
Department.
The plan shall | 21 | | address, at a minimum, the following areas:
| 22 | | (1) Crisis intervention;
| 23 | | (2) Communication (interpersonal theory, active |
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| 1 | | listening and observing);
| 2 | | (3) Group process and group dynamics;
| 3 | | (4) Diagnosis, management, treatment and discharge | 4 | | planning;
| 5 | | (5) Psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological | 6 | | psychosocial approaches;
| 7 | | (6) Community resources;
| 8 | | (7) Specialized skills for: long-term treatment, | 9 | | teaching activities of
daily living skills (e.g., | 10 | | grooming), psychosocial rehabilitation, and
schizophrenia | 11 | | and the aged, dual-diagnosed, young, and chronic;
| 12 | | (8) The Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities | 13 | | Code;
| 14 | | (9) The Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities | 15 | | Confidentiality Act;
| 16 | | (10) Physical intervention techniques;
| 17 | | (11) Aggression management;
| 18 | | (12) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation;
| 19 | | (13) Social assessment training;
| 20 | | (14) Suicide prevention and intervention;
| 21 | | (15) Tardive dyskinesia;
| 22 | | (16) Fire safety;
| 23 | | (17) Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS);
| 24 | | (18) Toxic substances;
| 25 | | (19) The detection and reporting of suspected | 26 | | recipient abuse and neglect; and
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| 1 | | (20) Methods of avoiding or reducing injuries in | 2 | | connection with delivery of services.
| 3 | | (c) Each program shall establish a unit-specific | 4 | | orientation which
details the types of patients served, rules, | 5 | | treatment strategies,
response to medical emergencies, | 6 | | policies and procedures, seclusion,
restraint for special need | 7 | | recipients, and community resources.
| 8 | | (d) The plan shall provide for in-service and any other | 9 | | necessary
training for for direct service staff and shall | 10 | | include a system for verification of
completion. Pre-service | 11 | | training shall be completed within 6 months after
beginning | 12 | | employment, as a condition of continued employment and as a
| 13 | | prerequisite to contact with recipients of services, except in | 14 | | the
course of supervised on-the-job training that may be a | 15 | | component of the
training plan. The plan may also require | 16 | | additional
training in relation to
changes in employee work | 17 | | assignments and job classifications of professional and direct
| 18 | | service staff.
| 19 | | Direct care staff shall be trained in methods of | 20 | | communicating with
recipients who are not verbal, including | 21 | | discerning signs of discomfort or
medical problems experienced | 22 | | by a recipient. Facility administrators also
shall receive such | 23 | | training, to ensure that facility operations are adapted
to the | 24 | | needs of recipients with mental disabilities.
| 25 | | (e) To facilitate training, the Department may develop
at | 26 | | least 2 training offices, one serving State-operated |
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| 1 | | facilities
located in the Chicago metropolitan area and the | 2 | | second serving other
facilities operated by the Department. | 3 | | These offices shall develop and
conduct the pre-service and | 4 | | in-service training programs required by this
Section and | 5 | | coordinate other training required by the Department.
| 6 | | (Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
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