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Authorizes one-year HHS grants to state, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies and agencies overseeing emergency medical services to establish and expand trauma-informed, victim-centered training for law enforcement personnel and emergency medical technicians handling sexual assault cases. Grants must fund evidence-based or promising trauma-informed training, require minimum training hours for initial and continuing training, promote diverse trainers, require an online searchable trainer listing, and mandate annual data collection and reporting to Congress on program outcomes and survivor feedback.
The bill increases survivor-centered, trauma-informed training and creates a federal trainer registry to improve responses to sexual assault, but it imposes costs and continuity challenges on local governments and raises privacy and access concerns for survivors and rural agencies.
Law enforcement and EMS personnel will be required to complete trauma-informed training (8 hours initial; 4 hours annual), improving interactions with sexual assault survivors, reducing retraumatization, and likely increasing survivor willingness to report and improving case outcomes.
State and local agencies will have access to a searchable federal listing of qualified trainers by geography and background, making it easier to find and hire appropriate trainers and standardize training quality.
Survivors from diverse communities (including racial/ethnic minorities and women) are more likely to receive culturally competent responses because the program prioritizes diverse trainer backgrounds and inclusive representation.
State and local agencies (and therefore local taxpayers) will need to allocate staff time and possibly funds to meet the required training hours, imposing new costs on local budgets.
Collecting survivor feedback and prosecution data as part of the program could raise privacy concerns and might deter some survivors from participating if not thoroughly anonymized and protected.
The program's one-year grant period may limit continuity and long-term planning for training programs, risking interruptions if follow-on funding is not secured.
Introduced April 30, 2025 by Janice D. Schakowsky · Last progress April 30, 2025