HB0266 | Trauma-informed Research and Training Grant Program

Description
General Description: 

This bill creates the Trauma-informed Research and Training Grant Program.

Highlighted Provisions: 

This bill creates the Trauma-informed Research and Training Grant Program

Bill Details
Bill Number: 
HB0266
Year: 
2022
Status: 
House/ filed
Last Action: 
Mar 04, 2022
Sponsor
Representative
Jon Hawkins
Republican - District 57
Fiscal Note
Fiscal Note Amount: 
$2,000,000
This bill appropriates in fiscal year 2023: to Department of Workforce Services -- Operations and Policy -- Workforce Development, as a one-time appropriation: From General Fund, One-time, $2,000,000.
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Utah PTA Response
Utah PTA Position
Support
Utah PTA Resolution: 
HEA 2019-1 | Prevention & Promotion of Health Behaviors
Impact on Children: 

Traumatic life experience means a life event or a series of life circumstances that a child (or adult) experiences as physically or emotionally harmful or life-threatening and has lasting adverse effects on the person's physical, emotional, mental, social, or spiritual well-being. Evidence indicates that integrated, prevention programs addressing multiple risk factors
and community coalitions can be effective across a range of priority health-risk behaviors
prevalent in adolescence. This bill will support efforts to create such prevention programs.

Commission: 
Health
Utah PTA Public Policy Program
National PTA and Utah PTA Resolutions: 

Utah PTA and its constituent associations will participate and support methods to assess
and recognize the risk and protective factors in their local schools, families and
communities;

Utah PTA and its constituent associations will support evidence based programs to
decrease risk factors and increase protective factors in our homes, schools and
communitie