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                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              October 7, 2020
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 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jean-Pierre)
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families
 
 AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring child
   protective services workers to receive training in developmental disa-
   bility awareness and sensitivity and cultural competency,  sensitivity
   and implicit bias

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (b) and (c) and of subdivision 5 of section  421
 of  the  social services law, paragraph (b) as amended by chapter 525 of
 the laws of 2006, paragraph (c) as amended by chapter 67 of the laws  of
 2019, are amended to read as follows:
   (b)  promulgate  regulations setting forth training requirements which
 shall specify, among other things, that all persons  hired  by  a  child
 protective  service on or after April first, nineteen hundred eighty-six
 shall have satisfactorily completed a course approved by the  department
 within  the  first  three  months  of employment, in the fundamentals of
 child protection. Such course shall include at least basic  training  in
 the principles and techniques of investigations, including relationships
 with  other  investigative bodies, legal issues in child protection, and
 methods of remediation, diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Such  regu-
 lations  shall also specify that all persons employed by a child protec-
 tive service [on or after December first, two thousand six] shall satis-
 factorily complete [six] EIGHT hours of annual [in  service]  IN-SERVICE
 training,  beginning in their second year of employment. Such annual [in
 service] IN-SERVICE training shall  include,  but  is  not  limited  to,
 review  of  the  protocols for identification and investigation of child
 abuse  and  maltreatment,  any  developments  in  legal,  treatment  and
 prevention  issues  in  child  protection,  [and] review and analysis of
 field experiences of child protective  services  workers,  DEVELOPMENTAL
 DISABILITY AWARENESS AND SENSITIVITY, AND CULTURAL COMPETENCY, SENSITIV-
 ITY AND IMPLICIT BIAS TRAINING.
   (c) require all persons assigned to be a supervisor by a child protec-
 tive service on or after April first, nineteen hundred eighty-six, shall
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 have  satisfactorily completed, within the first three months of employ-
 ment as a supervisor or within three months of  the  effective  date  of
 this  paragraph,  whichever shall occur first, a course in the fundamen-
 tals  of child protection developed by the office of children and family
 services.  ALL SUPERVISORS MUST COMPLETE EIGHT HOURS OF  ANNUAL  IN-SER-
 VICE TRAINING BEGINNING IN THEIR SECOND YEAR OF EMPLOYMENT AS A SUPERVI-
 SOR.  Such  training  course  shall,  among other things, strengthen and
 expand current training procedures for child protective service supervi-
 sors; provide the skills, knowledge and standards to practice  effective
 case  planning  and  case  management;  provide comprehensive assessment
 tools needed in critical decision making; require participation  in  the
 existing  next  generation training required by child protective service
 caseworkers; strengthen recognition and  response  to  safety  and  risk
 indicators;  improve  skills  to  promote  consistent  implementation of
 training and practice; provide the necessary  tools  and  assistance  to
 build  the  ability  to coach and monitor child protective service case-
 workers and model effective investigation  practice;  increase  cultural
 competency  and sensitivity; INCREASE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY AWARENESS
 AND SENSITIVITY; and establish an annual [in service] IN-SERVICE  train-
 ing  program  specifically  focused on child protective service supervi-
 sors.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.