(20 ILCS 4129/10)

(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)

(For Act repeal see Section 25)

Sec. 10. Purpose. The Healing-Centered Illinois Task Force is created to advance the State's efforts to become trauma-informed and healing-centered through improved alignment of existing efforts, common definitions and metrics, and strategic planning for long-term transformation. The Task Force shall have the following objectives:

(1) Recommend shared language and common definitions for the State to become trauma-informed and healing-centered across sectors by aligning language and definitions included in the work of the Whole Child Task Force, the Children's Mental Health Transformation Initiative, and the Illinois Children's Mental Health Plan.

(2) Ensure the meaningful inclusion in Task Force matters of young people, parents, survivors of trauma, and residents who have engaged with Illinois systems or policies, such as child welfare and the legal criminal system.

(3) Identify the current training capacity and the training needs to support healing-centered and trauma-informed environments among organizations, professional cohorts, educational institutions, and future practitioners and project how best to meet those needs.

(4) Design a process identifying what data are needed to understand the dimensions of trauma in the State and the status of the trauma-related work in Illinois and identify current relevant data sources in Illinois.

(5) Recommend a process for collecting and aggregating such data identified, as well as a process for improving transparency and accountability by developing and maintaining a platform of aggregated data that is accessible to a range of stakeholders, including the public.

(6) Identify existing State resources that are being invested to support trauma-informed and healing-centered work, develop recommendations to align these resources, and propose an approach and recommendations to support ongoing or expanded stable resources for this work.

(7) Identify what, if any, administrative or legislative policy changes are needed to advance goals to make Illinois a healing-centered or trauma-informed State.

(8) Recommend an overarching organizational structure to ensure coordination, alignment, and progress to make Illinois a trauma-informed, healing-centered State.

(9) Devise a set of benchmarks to measure success in advancing the State toward becoming trauma-informed and healing-centered and a process for measuring them.

(Source: P.A. 103-545, eff. 1-1-24.)