[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 561 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 561

     To establish a child and family services and law enforcement 
              partnership program, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 10 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

   Mr. Dodd introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
     To establish a child and family services and law enforcement 
              partnership program, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Child and Family Services and Law 
Enforcement Partnership Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Homicide is the leading cause of death for young black 
        males and females and is the second leading cause of juvenile 
        injury deaths for all youth age 15-24.
            (2) Homicide rates for children and youth have more than 
        doubled since 1950.
            (3) Teenagers are more than twice as likely as adults to be 
        victims of violent crime, such as rape, robbery or assault.
            (4) Physical fighting severe enough to require medical 
        treatment for at least one participant occurs among high school 
        students in patterns similar to those of homicide. The 
        incidence rates are higher for males than females, higher for 
        minorities than for nonminorities, and more frequent between 
        acquaintances than among strangers.
            (5) There is a need to supplement existing mental health 
        services with a wide and varied range of preventive programs 
        designed to reach those at greatest risk for development of 
        behavioral or social problems.
            (6) The reach of professional mental health manpower can be 
        expanded through consultative techniques and by the 
        recruitment, selection and training of various nontraditional 
        helping resources.
            (7) Community-based police, by their visibility at the 
        neighborhood level and their engagement in benign activities, 
        can provide role models and resources to promote the well-being 
        of children and families, as well as to identify and refer 
        those at risk for behavioral problems.

SEC. 3. PURPOSES.

    The purposes of this Act are to--
            (1) identify children and families at high-risk for 
        developing behavioral or emotional problems resulting from 
        exposure to community violence and provide mental health 
        services to such children and families, including crisis 
        intervention for child witnesses and victims of violence;
            (2) facilitate interaction between child and family service 
        organizations, law enforcement agencies, local educational 
        agencies, and other community members for the purpose of 
        building coalitions for the prevention of community violence;
            (3) augment law enforcement services and community policing 
        efforts through the provision of training and support by child 
        and family service organizations, and supplement child and 
        family services through the training of law enforcement 
        officers in child, family and cultural issues; and
            (4) provide role models for high-risk children and youth 
        and promote conflict resolution training for children and youth 
        in local educational agencies.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act:
            (1) Child and family service organization.--The term 
        ``child and family service organization'' means a public or 
        private nonprofit entity (such as child guidance centers, child 
        psychiatry or child psychology departments of hospitals or 
        university medical centers, or community mental health centers 
        providing child and family services) that provides mental 
        health services to children and families and that meets the 
        mental health center guidelines under section 1913(c) of the 
        Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300x-2(c)), with respect 
        to the level of professional care and services provided to 
        children and families.
            (2) Community-based policing.--The term ``community-based 
        policing'' means a commitment and an effort (within the 
        confines of budget restrictions) made by a law enforcement 
        agency to establish or expand cooperative efforts between the 
        police and a community in order to increase police presence in 
        the community, including--
                    (A) developing innovative neighborhood-oriented 
                policing programs and community-based crime-prevention 
                programs;
                    (B) developing policies that reorient police from 
                reacting to crime to preventing crime; and
                    (C) creating decentralized police substations 
                throughout the community to encourage interaction and 
                cooperation between the public and law enforcement 
                personnel on a local level, including the permanent 
                assignment of officers to a specific neighborhood or 
                substation.
            (3) Law enforcement agency.--The term ``law enforcement 
        agency'' means an entity that serves a specified community and 
        has the routine responsibility of policing the activities of 
        such community.
            (4) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of Health and Human Services.

SEC. 5. GRANTS AUTHORIZED.

    (a) In General.--
            (1) Establishment grants.--The Secretary, in consultation 
        with the Attorney General, may award grants to partnerships 
        determined to be eligible under section 6 for the establishment 
        of child and family services and law enforcement partnership 
        programs.
            (2) Priority.--In awarding grants described in 
        paragraph(1), the Secretary shall give priority to a 
        partnership that includes a law enforcement agency engaged in 
        community-based policing.
    (b) Grant Amount.--
            (1) In general.--A grant awarded under this section shall 
        be for an amount that is not less than $150,000 per year. Such 
        grant shall be of a sufficient size to adequately support all 
        anticipated activities.
            (2) Additional amounts.--
                    (A) In general.--The Secretary may award additional 
                grant amounts for the purpose of enabling a partnership 
                to provide mentoring or conflict resolution services.
                    (B) Special rules.--
                            (i) Priority for mentoring services.--In 
                        awarding additional grant funds for the 
                        provision of mentoring services under 
                        subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall give 
                        priority to partnerships that demonstrate 
                        commitments from a broad spectrum of community 
                        groups to participate in mentoring programs.
                            (ii) Conflict resolution services.--In 
                        awarding additional grant funds for the 
                        provision of conflict resolution services under 
                        subparagraph (A), the Secretary may not award 
                        grant funds to a partnership unless such 
                        partnership demonstrates a commitment from the 
                        local educational agency to provide conflict 
                        resolution programs in the schools in 
                        participation with such partnership.
    (c) Federal Share.--
            (1) In general.--The Federal share of a grant made under 
        this section may not exceed--
                    (A) with respect to the first fiscal year, 80 
                percent of the total costs of the projects described in 
                the application submitted under section 6 for such 
                fiscal year;
                    (B) with respect to the second fiscal year, 70 
                percent of the total costs of the projects described in 
                the application submitted under section 6 for such 
                fiscal year; and
                    (C) with respect to the third fiscal year, 60 
                percent of the total costs of the projects described in 
                the application submitted under section 6 for such 
                fiscal year.
            (2) In-kind contributions.--The Secretary shall accept the 
        value of in-kind contributions made by the grant recipient as a 
        part or all of the non-Federal share of grants.
    (d) Grant Duration.--A grant awarded under this Act shall be for a 
period of not less than 3 years.

SEC. 6. APPLICATIONS.

    (a) In General.--To be eligible for a grant under this section an 
entity shall--
            (1) be a partnership consisting of, at least, a child and 
        family service organization and a law enforcement agency; and
            (2) prepare and submit to the Secretary an application in 
        such form at such time and in accordance with such procedures 
        as the Secretary shall establish.
    (b) Assurances.--Each application submitted under subsection (a) 
shall provide the following assurances:
            (1) There is a partnership established between, at least, a 
        child and family service organization and a law enforcement 
        agency.
            (2) The management, at the highest level, of the child and 
        family service organization and law enforcement agency of the 
        partnership agrees to the establishment of such partnership, 
        and agrees that such organization and such agency of such 
        partnership will cooperate in carrying out the program.
            (3) In developing the program, the applicant partnership 
        has coordinated with other segments of the community to ensure 
        that the partnership efforts complement existing community 
        anti-violence efforts.
            (4) Programs established from funds received under grants 
        awarded under this Act will do the following:
                    (A) Be collaborative in nature, with respect to 
                organizing and providing the necessary services to 
                children and families.
                    (B) Provide response to crisis situations 24 hours 
                a day.
                    (C) Provide confidentiality.
                    (D) Be able to provide adequate resources for 
                training of law enforcement officers and for support of 
                professional consultation services for children and 
                families, including professionals licensed to provide 
                child and family evaluations and treatment.
                    (E) Be able to respond to community needs in a 
                manner reflecting sensitivity to the cultural diversity 
                of that community.
            (5) The partnership will provide the following program 
        components:
                    (A) 24-hour consultation service that includes a 
                team of child guidance professionals and specially 
                trained law enforcement officers to respond to 
                incidents where a child has either witnessed or been a 
                victim of violence. Services by child guidance 
                professionals may include in-home assessments, 
                expedited referrals for treatment, consultations with 
                parents and teachers, and on-the-spot crisis 
                intervention.
                    (B) Training to law enforcement officers that 
                includes instruction by child and family service 
                organizations in the basic principles of human 
                behavior, child psychology, and family systems. All 
                training will be interactive and jointly taught by law 
                enforcement officers and child guidance professionals, 
                in order to make use of real-life examples drawn from 
                officers' experience in the field. Such training will 
                include the following minimum course curriculum:
                            (i) Ongoing training for recruits, in which 
                        experienced law enforcement officers may 
                        participate as is feasible for the department.
                            (ii) Intensive workshops for law 
                        enforcement officers involved in field 
                        training.
                            (iii) A program for supervisory law 
                        enforcement officers that provides an 
                        opportunity for such officers to observe child 
                        and family clinical work in a variety of 
                        settings.
                    (C) Weekly case conferences by the team of child 
                guidance professionals and law enforcement officers 
                described in subparagraph (A).
                    (D) Community activities for children and families 
                that are designed jointly by the law enforcement and 
                child and family services partnership, including 
                conflict resolution training programs for children and 
                youth, after-school activity and neighborhood 
                recreation programs, and parent support groups co-led 
                by child guidance and law enforcement professionals.
            (6) The partnership will provide local matching funds in 
        accordance with the Federal share requirements under section 
        5(c).
    (c) Additional Assurances for Mentoring and Conflict Resolution 
Services.--
            (1) In general.--Each application submitted under 
        subsection (a) for additional funding for the provision of 
        mentoring or conflict resolution services under section 5(b)(2) 
        shall provide assurances described in paragraph (2) or (3), 
        whichever is applicable.
            (2) Mentoring.--With respect to the provision of mentoring 
        services, an applicant partnership shall provide assurances 
        that such partnership will:
                    (A) Provide formal mentoring programs that will 
                include mentors such as police officers, mental health 
                professionals, businessmen, or other community members 
                provided through a partnership with corporations, 
                universities, labor organizations, non-profit entities 
                (such as professional societies) or government 
                agencies.
                    (B) Provide ongoing support services to mentors 
                through the partnership's child and family services 
                organization, in collaboration with law enforcement 
                officers who receive training as described in 
                subsection (b)(5)(B). Such services will include the 
                following minimum components:
                            (i) Provision of framework to help mentors 
                        understand the issues they may encounter in 
                        working with youth from deprived environments.
                            (ii) Ongoing support groups that meet at a 
                        regularly scheduled time to provide mentors an 
                        opportunity to discuss the problems such 
                        mentors may encounter in working with children.
                    (C) Collaborate, when possible, with elementary and 
                secondary schools, universities, corporations, labor 
                organizations, or government agencies with respect to 
                matters relating to the partnership's mentoring 
                program.
                    (D) Recruit mentors who are representative of the 
                cultural mix of the community such mentors serve.
            (3) Conflict resolution.--With respect to the provision of 
        conflict resolution services, an applicant partnership shall 
        provide the following assurances:
                    (A) The child and family services organization and 
                the law enforcement agency partnership, in 
                collaboration with the local educational agency 
                (hereafter referred to in this subparagraph as the 
                ``LEA'') will assist the LEA in the development and 
                implementation of conflict resolution programs. The 
                assistance provided to the LEA in the preceding 
                sentence shall be tailored to the needs and resources 
                of the local school district, and may include providing 
                assistance to an ongoing conflict resolution program 
                run by such LEA, developing curricula for such a 
                program in cooperation with the LEA, and providing such 
                a program to an LEA.
    (d) Evaluation.--
            (1) In general.--Applicants shall include in their 
        application the design of an evaluation of program 
        effectiveness in providing services under this Act, including a 
        provision for an adequate control group, such as a nearby 
        community of similar composition and level of violence.
            (2) Collaborations.--To facilitate the evaluation process, 
        the Secretary shall encourage partnership grantees to form 
        collaborative relationships with universities for the purpose 
        of evaluating program effectiveness under paragraph (1). 
        Partnership grantees shall contract with outside organizations 
        for such evaluation.
            (3) Limitation.--Not more than 15 percent of grants awarded 
        under section 5 may be set aside for the evaluation described 
        in paragraph (1).
            (4) Coordination.--The Secretary shall coordinate the 
        evaluation described in paragraph (1) of all partnership 
        grantees and ensure that such grantees collect comparable data 
        for such evaluation.

SEC. 7. TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.

    The Secretary shall provide training and technical assistance to 
partnership grantees.

SEC. 8. REPORTS.

    (a) Interim.--Not later than December 31, 1996, the Secretary shall 
prepare and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress an interim 
progress report on the evaluation conducted under section 6(d).
    (b) Final.--Not later than December 31, 1998, the Secretary shall 
prepare and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a review 
and summary of the result of the evaluation conducted under section 
6(d).

SEC. 9. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act, 
$50,000,000 for fiscal year 1994 and such sums as may be necessary for 
each of the fiscal years 1995 through 1999.

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