Bill Text: NY A09568 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to requiring counselors to have certain courses of study or equivalent on-the-job experience including on providing trauma-informed, patient-centered care, treating co-occurring disorders and sensitivity training.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-24 - referred to alcoholism and drug abuse [A09568 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A09568-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9568 IN ASSEMBLY January 24, 2020 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to approved courses of study or equivalent on-the-job experience for counselors The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (d) of section 19.07 of the 2 mental hygiene law, as amended by section 5 of part I of chapter 58 of 3 the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows: 4 (1) The office shall establish minimum qualifications for counselors 5 in all phases of delivery of services to persons and their families who 6 are suffering from alcohol and/or substance abuse and/or chemical 7 dependence and/or compulsive gambling that shall include, but not be 8 limited to, completion of approved courses of study or equivalent 9 on-the-job experience in alcoholism and substance abuse counseling 10 and/or counseling of compulsive gambling. Such approved courses of study 11 or equivalent on-the-job experience shall include: providing trauma-in- 12 formed, patient-centered care; treating co-occurring disorders; and 13 sensitivity training. Such courses shall be updated as needed to reflect 14 evolving best practices in harm reduction, treatment and long-term 15 recovery. For the purposes of this paragraph, sensitivity training shall 16 mean a form of training with the goal of making people more aware of 17 their own prejudices and more sensitive to others. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 19 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00847-03-0