34 USC 10653 - Creation of a TBI and PTSD training for first responders

U.S Code last checked for updates: May 07, 2024

§ 10653.

Creation of a TBI and PTSD training for first responders

(a)

In general

Not later than one year after August 16, 2022, the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, in consultation with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, shall solicit best practices regarding techniques to interact with persons who have a traumatic brain injury, an acquired brain injury, or post-traumatic stress disorder from first responder, brain injury, veteran, and mental health organizations, health care and mental health providers, hospital emergency departments, and other relevant stakeholders, and shall develop crisis intervention training tools for use by first responders (as such term is defined in section 10705 of this title) that provide—

(1)

information on the conditions and symptoms of a traumatic brain injury, an acquired brain injury, and post-traumatic stress disorder;

(2)

techniques to interact with persons who have a traumatic brain injury, an acquired brain injury, or post-traumatic stress disorder; and

(3)

information on how to recognize persons who have a traumatic brain injury, an acquired brain injury, or post-traumatic stress disorder.

(b)

Use of training tools at Law Enforcement Mental Health Learning Sites

(c)

Police Mental Health Collaboration Toolkit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2993, as added Pub. L. 117–170, § 3(2), Aug. 16, 2022, 136 Stat. 2092.)

cite as: 34 USC 10653