H.R.1490 - Teri Zenner Social Worker Safety Act

To establish a grant program to assist in the provision of safety measures to protect social workers and other professionals who work with at-risk populations. view all titles (2)

All Bill Titles

  • Official: To establish a grant program to assist in the provision of safety measures to protect social workers and other professionals who work with at-risk populations. as introduced.
  • Short: Teri Zenner Social Worker Safety Act as introduced.

This Bill currently has no wiki content. If you would like to create a wiki entry for this bill, please Login, and then select the wiki tab to create it.

Bill's Views

  • Today: 7
  • Past Seven Days: 14
  • All-Time: 1,344
 
Introduced
 
House
Passes
 
Senate
Passes
 
President
Signs
 

 
03/11/09
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Official Summary

3/12/2009--Introduced.Teri Zenner Social Worker Safety Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to award grants to states to provide safety measures to social workers and other professionals working

Official Summary

3/12/2009--Introduced.Teri Zenner Social Worker Safety Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to award grants to states to provide safety measures to social workers and other professionals working with violent, drug-using, or other at-risk populations. Authorizes such grants to be used to provide or support:
(1) the procurement and installation of safety equipment, including communications systems to assist agencies in locating staff, and technical assistance and training for safety communications;
(2) training exercises for self-defense and crisis management;
(3) facility safety improvements;
(4) provision of pepper spray for self-defense;
(5) training in cultural competency and on strategies for de-escalating a situation that could turn volatile;
(6) training to help workers who work with mentally ill communities and who need help coping; and
(7) educational resources and materials to train staff on safety and awareness measures. Directs the Secretary to establish guidelines for assuring the cost-effectiveness and quality of the safety measures funded.

...Read the Rest

FEED

Recent News Coverage

Hmmmm, no news coverage found for this bill at this time. This means that this this bill has not yet been mentioned on a publicly-searchable news website by either its official number (for example, "H.R. 3200") or title (for example, "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009"). As soon as that changes, our daily automated search across the Web will catch it and include it here. If this bill is of interest to you, you can write a letter to the editor referring to this bill by name, and if your letter is published on the Web, a link back your letter will appear here within about one day. Or, if you know of a news article about this bill to display here, email us the web address of this page and the web address of your suggested news article: Our editorial team will post relevant links as quickly as possible. Thanks for helping to build public knowledge about Congress.

FEED

Recent Blog Coverage

View All (25)  |  View Top Rated

04/11/11
H.R.1490: Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2011 ...

H.R. 1490: To amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to ... A bill in the U.S. Congress: To amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to improve compensation for workers involved in uranium mining, and for other purposes. ... OpenCongress is a f

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
12/03/10
83 REASONS WHY FRED UPTON IS UNFIT FOR ENERGY AND COMMERCE ...

Upton stood with Big Green and refused to co-sponsor HR 1490, which would have reformed abuses of the Endangered Species Act by allowing certain regions of the country to be exempt from some provisions, which Big Green groups and ...

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
09/15/10
H.R. 1490 [110th]: To provide for a presumption of service ...

12 Mar 2007

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate




Users supporting H.R.1490 (2) are also:

Supporting Bill Supporting Senator Supporting Representative
  • S.159 Paterson Great Falls ... 1
  • S.5 Stem Cell Research En... 1
  • S.160 District of Columbia ... 1
  • S.142 Kids Come First Act o... 1
  • S.143 College Opportunity T... 1


Opposing Bill Opposing Senator Opposing Representative





Vote on This Bill

100% Users Support Bill

2 in favor / 0 opposed
 

Send Your Rep a Letter

about this bill Support Oppose Tracking
Track with MyOC
Save to Notebook Make A Bill Widget

OpenCongress is a free and open-source project of the Participatory Politics Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with a mission to increase civic engagement. The non-profit Sunlight Foundation is the Founding and Primary Supporter of OpenCongress.