Bill Text: NY S08048 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires training in developmental disability awareness and sensitivity and cultural competency, sensitivity and implicit bias for child protective services workers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-13 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S08048 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08048-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8048

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 13, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring  child
          protective services workers to receive training in developmental disa-
          bility  awareness and sensitivity and cultural competency, sensitivity
          and implicit bias

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Paragraphs (b) and (c) and of subdivision 5 of section 421
     2  of the social services law, paragraph (b) as amended by chapter  525  of
     3  the  laws of 2006, paragraph (c) as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of
     4  2019, are amended to read as follows:
     5    (b) promulgate regulations setting forth training  requirements  which
     6  shall  specify,  among  other  things, that all persons hired by a child
     7  protective service on or after April first, nineteen hundred  eighty-six
     8  shall  have satisfactorily completed a course approved by the department
     9  within the first three months of  employment,  in  the  fundamentals  of
    10  child  protection.  Such course shall include at least basic training in
    11  the principles and techniques of investigations, including relationships
    12  with other investigative bodies, legal issues in child  protection,  and
    13  methods  of remediation, diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Such regu-
    14  lations shall also specify that all persons employed by a child  protec-
    15  tive service [on or after December first, two thousand six] shall satis-
    16  factorily  complete  [six] eight hours of annual [in service] in-service
    17  training, beginning in their second year of employment. Such annual  [in
    18  service]  in-service  training  shall  include,  but  is not limited to,
    19  review of the protocols for identification and  investigation  of  child
    20  abuse  and  maltreatment,  any  developments  in  legal,  treatment  and
    21  prevention issues in child protection,  [and]  review  and  analysis  of
    22  field  experiences  of  child protective services workers, developmental
    23  disability awareness and sensitivity, and cultural competency, sensitiv-
    24  ity and implicit bias training.
    25    (c) require all persons assigned to be a supervisor by a child protec-
    26  tive service on or after April first, nineteen hundred eighty-six, shall

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 8048                             2

     1  have satisfactorily completed, within the first three months of  employ-
     2  ment  as  a  supervisor  or within three months of the effective date of
     3  this paragraph, whichever shall occur first, a course in  the  fundamen-
     4  tals  of child protection developed by the office of children and family
     5  services.  All supervisors must complete eight hours of  annual  in-ser-
     6  vice training beginning in their second year of employment as a supervi-
     7  sor.  Such  training  course  shall,  among other things, strengthen and
     8  expand current training procedures for child protective service supervi-
     9  sors; provide the skills, knowledge and standards to practice  effective
    10  case  planning  and  case  management;  provide comprehensive assessment
    11  tools needed in critical decision making; require participation  in  the
    12  existing  next  generation training required by child protective service
    13  caseworkers; strengthen recognition and  response  to  safety  and  risk
    14  indicators;  improve  skills  to  promote  consistent  implementation of
    15  training and practice; provide the necessary  tools  and  assistance  to
    16  build  the  ability  to coach and monitor child protective service case-
    17  workers and model effective investigation  practice;  increase  cultural
    18  competency  and sensitivity; increase developmental disability awareness
    19  and sensitivity; and establish an annual [in service] in-service  train-
    20  ing  program  specifically  focused on child protective service supervi-
    21  sors.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.