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House Bill (H)

DIGEST

Trauma informed personnel for residential child care. Allows licensed child caring institutions, group homes, and secure private facilities (residential child care facilities) to hire not more than one trauma informed support employee per living unit per shift. Provides for full reimbursement of the cost of employment of a trauma informed support employee for residential child care facilities that have four or more children residing in a living unit. Excludes trauma informed support employees from calculation of the ratio of direct care staff to children for purposes of rate setting for residential child care facilities. Trauma informed personnel for residential child care. Allows licensed child caring institutions, group homes, and secure private facilities (residential child care facilities) to hire not more than one trauma informed support employee per living unit per shift. Provides for full reimbursement of the cost of employment of a trauma informed support employee for residential child care facilities that have four or more children residing in a living unit. Excludes trauma informed support employees from calculation of the ratio of direct care staff to children for purposes of rate setting for residential child care facilities.