Bill Text: IL SB3034 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB3034 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB3034-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB3034 Introduced 2/15/2018, by Sen. Chuck Weaver SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 1705/33.3 from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-33.3
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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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning direct service staff.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing Section
33.3 as follows:
(20 ILCS 1705/33.3) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-33.3)
Sec. 33.3. (a) The Department may develop an annual plan
for staff training. The plan shall establish minimum training
objectives and time frames and shall be based on the assessment
of needs of direct treatment staff. The plan shall be developed
using comments from employee representative organizations and
State and national professional and advocacy groups. The
training plan shall be available for public review and comment.
(b) A centralized pre-service training curriculum shall be
developed for classifications of employees of State-operated
facilities who have responsibility for direct patient care and
whose professional training and experience does not
substantially include the minimum training required under this
Section, as determined by the Department. The plan shall
address, at a minimum, the following areas:
(1) Crisis intervention;
(2) Communication (interpersonal theory, active

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listening and observing);
(3) Group process and group dynamics;
(4) Diagnosis, management, treatment and discharge
planning;
(5) Psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological
psychosocial approaches;
(6) Community resources;
(7) Specialized skills for: long-term treatment,
teaching activities of daily living skills (e.g.,
grooming), psychosocial rehabilitation, and schizophrenia
and the aged, dual-diagnosed, young, and chronic;
(8) The Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Code;
(9) The Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Confidentiality Act;
(10) Physical intervention techniques;
(11) Aggression management;
(12) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation;
(13) Social assessment training;
(14) Suicide prevention and intervention;
(15) Tardive dyskinesia;
(16) Fire safety;
(17) Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS);
(18) Toxic substances;
(19) The detection and reporting of suspected
recipient abuse and neglect; and

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(20) Methods of avoiding or reducing injuries in
connection with delivery of services.
(c) Each program shall establish a unit-specific
orientation which details the types of patients served, rules,
treatment strategies, response to medical emergencies,
policies and procedures, seclusion, restraint for special need
recipients, and community resources.
(d) The plan shall provide for in-service and any other
necessary training for for direct service staff and shall
include a system for verification of completion. Pre-service
training shall be completed within 6 months after beginning
employment, as a condition of continued employment and as a
prerequisite to contact with recipients of services, except in
the course of supervised on-the-job training that may be a
component of the training plan. The plan may also require
additional training in relation to changes in employee work
assignments and job classifications of professional and direct
service staff.
Direct care staff shall be trained in methods of
communicating with recipients who are not verbal, including
discerning signs of discomfort or medical problems experienced
by a recipient. Facility administrators also shall receive such
training, to ensure that facility operations are adapted to the
needs of recipients with mental disabilities.
(e) To facilitate training, the Department may develop at
least 2 training offices, one serving State-operated

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facilities located in the Chicago metropolitan area and the
second serving other facilities operated by the Department.
These offices shall develop and conduct the pre-service and
in-service training programs required by this Section and
coordinate other training required by the Department.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)