Adverse Childhood Experiences Response Teams

Full Title:
A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to establish the Adverse Childhood Experiences Response Team grant program, and for other purposes.

Summary#

This bill would add a new grant program to the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to help communities respond to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma. The Attorney General, working with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, would make grants to States, units of local government, Indian Tribes, and neighborhood or community-based organizations. Grants may be used to set up an ACE response team and to do things such as create protocols for responding to children who have experienced trauma, build referral agreements with behavioral health and substance use treatment providers, integrate law enforcement and mental health crisis services, provide trauma-informed training, and give technical assistance to communities.

What it means for you#

  • If you represent a State, local government, Indian Tribe, or neighborhood or community-based organization, you could apply to the Attorney General for a grant to create or support an ACE response team.
  • The program would fund work such as setting response protocols, making referral partnerships, training emergency responders and school staff in trauma-informed care, and coordinating across law enforcement, child welfare, courts, health, and treatment providers.
  • Applicants must submit an application to the Attorney General in the form and with the information the Attorney General requires.

Expenses#

The bill authorizes $10,000,000 to be appropriated for each fiscal year 2026 through 2029 to carry out the new grant program. No other cost estimates or funding details are publicly available in the bill text.

Proponents' View#

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Opponents' View#

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