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To help train individuals in effective and evidence-based de-escalation techniques to ensure that individuals at diverse levels of society have and retain greater skills to resolve conflicts, manage anger, and control implicit bias without the use of physical or other force, and for other purposes. This bill requires the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a grant program for de-escalation of violence training in communities. Among other requirements, such training must include (1) techniques to de-escalate situations to avoid violence, (2) education about implicit bias, (3) communication and negotiation skills, and (4) scenario-based application of such de-escalation tactics. SAMHSA must establish the De-Escalation Advisory Board to advise and assist SAMHSA's development and implementation of the grant program. Additionally, the bill expands and extends through FY2025 mental health awareness training grants.

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Gwen Moore (D)*,  Nanette Barragán (D),  Karen Bass (D),  Sanford Bishop (D),  Julia Brownley (D),  G. Butterfield (D),  Kathy Castor (D),  Emanuel Cleaver (D),  Jim Clyburn (D),  Gerry Connolly (D),  Jim Cooper (D),  Madeleine Dean (D),  Theodore Deutch (D),  Veronica Escobar (D),  Dwight Evans (D),  Raúl Grijalva (D),  Alcee Hastings (D),  Denny Heck (D),  Steven Horsford (D),  Sheila Jackson-Lee (D),  Eddie Johnson (D),  Hank Johnson (D),  Robin Kelly (D),  Andy Kim (D),  Brenda Lawrence (D),  Barbara Lee (D),  Donald McEachin (D),  Jim McGovern (D),  Gregory Meeks (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Donald Payne (D),  Ed Perlmutter (D),  Stacey Plaskett (D),  Cedric Richmond (D),  Bobby Rush (D),  Michael San Nicolas (D),  Jan Schakowsky (D),  Donna Shalala (D),  Darren Soto (D),  Eric Swalwell (D),  Bonnie Watson Coleman (D), 

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (on 05/02/2019)

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