SB0646 Summary: Task Force for a Healing-Centered Illinois Act

• Creates the Healing-Centered Illinois Task Force to advance trauma-informed and healing-centered policies across state agencies and sectors by improving alignment, establishing common definitions and metrics, and developing long-term strategic plans.

• Task Force must accomplish nine objectives including recommending shared language for trauma-informed practices, ensuring meaningful inclusion of trauma survivors and youth, identifying training capacity needs, designing data collection processes, and recommending an organizational structure for coordination.

• Membership includes 24 positions comprising four General Assembly members, representatives from 11 state departments and agencies, experts in trauma-informed practices appointed by the Lieutenant Governor, and representatives from communities impacted by state systems and youth/parent advocacy organizations.

• Lieutenant Governor serves as chairperson and provides administrative support; Task Force members serve without compensation and meet at the Lieutenant Governor's call.

• Task Force must submit findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and Governor within one year of the Act's effective date, after which the Task Force is dissolved and the Act is repealed.