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


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


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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1 AN ACT concerning direct service staff.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
5Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing Section
633.3 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
9for staff training. The plan shall establish minimum training
10objectives and time frames and shall be based on the assessment
11of needs of direct treatment staff. The plan shall be developed
12using comments from employee representative organizations and
13State and national professional and advocacy groups. The
14training plan shall be available for public review and comment.
15 (b) A centralized pre-service training curriculum shall be
16developed for classifications of employees of State-operated
17facilities who have responsibility for direct patient care and
18whose professional training and experience does not
19substantially include the minimum training required under this
20Section, as determined by the Department. The plan shall
21address, 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
4orientation which details the types of patients served, rules,
5treatment strategies, response to medical emergencies,
6policies and procedures, seclusion, restraint for special need
7recipients, and community resources.
8 (d) The plan shall provide for in-service and any other
9necessary training for for direct service staff and shall
10include a system for verification of completion. Pre-service
11training shall be completed within 6 months after beginning
12employment, as a condition of continued employment and as a
13prerequisite to contact with recipients of services, except in
14the course of supervised on-the-job training that may be a
15component of the training plan. The plan may also require
16additional training in relation to changes in employee work
17assignments and job classifications of professional and direct
18service staff.
19 Direct care staff shall be trained in methods of
20communicating with recipients who are not verbal, including
21discerning signs of discomfort or medical problems experienced
22by a recipient. Facility administrators also shall receive such
23training, to ensure that facility operations are adapted to the
24needs of recipients with mental disabilities.
25 (e) To facilitate training, the Department may develop at
26least 2 training offices, one serving State-operated

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1facilities located in the Chicago metropolitan area and the
2second serving other facilities operated by the Department.
3These offices shall develop and conduct the pre-service and
4in-service training programs required by this Section and
5coordinate other training required by the Department.
6(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
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