BILL NUMBER: SB 2183	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 1, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 13, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Soto

                        MARCH 16, 2000

   An act relating to trauma intervention, and making an
appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 2183, as amended, Soto.   Trauma intervention.
   Under existing law, the Office of Criminal Justice Planning (OCJP)
funds, among other programs, various programs relating to victims
services.
   This bill would appropriate  $5,000,000  
$1,700,000  from the General Fund to OCJP for distribution to
the UCLA Trauma Psychiatry Program for the purpose of operating over
a period of 3 years an expanded version of a pilot program that
currently provides trauma and grief intervention to students.
   Vote:  2/3.  Appropriation:  yes.  Fiscal committee:  yes.
State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows:
   (a) The UCLA Trauma Psychiatry Program has a pilot program in one
cluster consisting of one high school and two to four middle schools
in northwest Pasadena that provides trauma and grief intervention.
   (b) The pilot program identifies youth that are in need of
postviolence and postdisaster mental health services.  Many of the
students who participated in this program suffered severe and
debilitating chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and had lost their
motivation for learning.
   (c) The pilot program has been successful in treating students for
their trauma and also has helped to improve their school work.
   (d) The pilot program should be extended from one to five
clusters, two of which would be located in northern California and
three in southern California with specific sites selected by the UCLA
Trauma Psychiatry Program.
   (e) The pilot program was funded by the Office of Criminal Justice
Planning.
  SEC. 2.  The sum of  five million dollars ($5,000,000)
  one million seven hundred thousand dollars
($1,700,000)  is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to
the Office of Criminal Justice Planning  , without regard to
fiscal year,  for distribution to the UCLA Trauma Psychiatry
Program for the purpose of operating over a period of three years an
expanded version of the pilot program that currently provides trauma
and grief intervention in one cluster consisting of one high school
and two to four middle schools in northwest Pasadena.  The program
shall be expanded from one to five clusters, two of which would be
located in northern California and three in southern California with
specific sites selected by the UCLA Trauma Psychiatry Program. 
In selecting the five sites for implementation of the program, the
Office of Criminal Justice Planning and the UCLA Trauma Psychiatry
Program shall consider:
   (a) The amount of crime and violence to which students are exposed
in the surrounding community.
   (b) The ability of the program managers to develop a coordinated
plan with school and community mental health services, local
victim-witness assistance programs, and local law enforcement
officials.
   (c) Approval of the program by the governing school district.
   The program shall include an evaluation component in which
students treated in the program are compared against a control group.
  The Office of Criminal Justice Planning shall report on the program
to the Legislature annually, on an interim basis, and shall provide
a full report by February 1, 2004.