Bill > H3953

This bill aims to promote resilience and community healing to mitigate adverse childhood and community experiences. It has several key provisions: 1. It requires various healthcare boards (e.g., medicine, nursing, social work) to develop training modules for their professionals on identifying, intervening in, and mitigating adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and adverse community conditions, as well as providing trauma-informed and responsive care. 2. It establishes five community-led learning collaboratives focused on assessing and sharing best practices for identifying individuals and families who could benefit from trauma-informed care, making policy recommendations, and identifying gaps in trauma-related services. These collaboratives will be located in communities disproportionately impacted by childhood trauma and adverse conditions. 3. It creates the Community Healing and Resiliency Trust Fund, administered by the Office of the Child Advocate, to provide grant funding for community-led programming and learning collaboratives aimed at mitigating childhood trauma and supporting community healing and resiliency. Overall, the bill seeks to equip healthcare providers with the knowledge and tools to better recognize and address the impacts of trauma and adverse community conditions, while also empowering community-based efforts to support healing and resilience.

Health and Social Services

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3953