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K00294 Summary:

BILL NOK00294
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORMagnarelli
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSRAbbate, Arroyo, Aubry, Barclay, Blake, Brabenec, Braunstein, Cook, Crespo, Crouch, Cruz, Cusick, DenDekker, DeStefano, Dickens, D'Urso, Englebright, Fahy, Fitzpatrick, Galef, Giglio, Glick, Gottfried, Hawley, Hyndman, Jaffee, Jean-Pierre, Johns, Jones, Joyner, Kolb, Lupardo, Manktelow, McDonald, McDonough, Mikulin, Miller B, Montesano, Morinello, Mosley, Niou, Nolan, Palmesano, Paulin, Perry, Pichardo, Ra, Raia, Ramos, Rosenthal L, Salka, Santabarbara, Sayegh, Schimminger, Schmitt, Simon, Solages, Steck, Stirpe, Tague, Taylor, Thiele, Walsh, Weinstein, Weprin, Williams, Zebrowski
 
 
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K00294 Actions:

BILL NOK00294
 
04/26/2019referred to calendar
04/29/2019adopted
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K00294 Text:

 
Assembly Resolution No. 294
 
BY: M. of A. Magnarelli
 
        MEMORIALIZING Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim
        April  21-27,  2019,  as  Abusive Head Trauma/Shaken
        Baby Syndrome Awareness Week in  the  State  of  New
        York
 
  WHEREAS,   The  most  recent  statistics  compiled  by  the  federal
government estimate that 673,800 children  were  victims  of  abuse  and
neglect  in  the  United  States  in 2017, of whom 48 percent were under
three year of age; and
 
  WHEREAS, That statistic includes 71,226 children in New York  State,
of whom 6,612 were under one year of age; and
 
  WHEREAS,  On  an  average  day  in  the United States, at least four
children will die as a consequence of abuse or neglect by  a  parent  or
other person entrusted with their care; and
 
  WHEREAS,  Children  younger  than one year of age accounted for 49.6
percent of all child abuse and neglect fatalities in 2016, and  children
four years of age or younger accounted for 82 percent of all child abuse
and neglect fatalities; and
 
  WHEREAS,  The  leading  cause  of death of abused children under age
five is Abusive Head Trauma, including  the  inflicted  trauma  commonly
known as Shaken Baby Syndrome; and
 
  WHEREAS, On average 1,200 to 1,400 children in the United States are
diagnosed  with  AHT/SBS  every  year,  and medical experts believe many
additional cases are likely misdiagnosed or undetected; and
 
  WHEREAS, Shaken Baby Syndrome and other inflicted head trauma occurs
when a caregiver loses control and shakes a baby or  young  child,  most
frequently  less  than  one year of age but in some cases as old as five
years of age, resulting in loss  of  vision,  brain  damage,  paralysis,
seizures, or death; and
 
  WHEREAS,  Shaken  Baby  Syndrome often causes permanent, irreparable
brain damage or death  to  an  infant,  and  may  result  in  more  than
$1,000,000  in medical and rehabilitation costs for the care of a single
disabled child during the first years of life; and
 
  WHEREAS, A growing body of medical evidence indicates that even mild
trauma to the brain caused  by  AHT/SBS  is  likely  to  cause  learning
disabilities   in  children  and  substantially  increase  the  risk  of
substance abuse; and
 
  WHEREAS, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated in
2011 that the average cost of child maltreatment is  $210,012  over  the
course  of  a  victim's  lifetime, including the costs of child welfare,
special education, criminal justice  expenses,  medical  care  and  lost
productivity as an adult; and
 
  WHEREAS, It is estimated that the taxpayers of the State of New York
may,  though  the  State  Medicaid  program,  pay  as much as 41% of the
medical and rehabilitation costs of inflicted head injuries; and
 
  WHEREAS,  recent estimates using CDC data estimate child abuse costs
our nation more than $428 billion a year,  and  the  estimated  cost  of
child abuse in New York State would exceed $44 billion a year; and
 
  WHEREAS,  The  most  effective  way  to  end AHT/SBS is by educating
parents  and  caregivers  about  the  danger  of  shaking  children  and
providing  the skills needed to cope with frustration and anger, and the
minimal  costs  of  educational  and  preventative  programs  may  avert
enormous  medical  and  disability  costs  and  untold  grief  for  many
families; and
 
  WHEREAS, Evidence-based education and awareness  programs,  such  as
the  nationally recognized New York SBS Prevention Project, developed by
Dr.  Mark Dias with the support of the NYS Children and  Families  Trust
Fund,  and  implemented  in  collaboration with Kalieda Health Women and
Children's Hospital of Buffalo and the Maria Fareri Children's  Hospital
of  Westchester,  are  shown  to  raise awareness and provide critically
important information about SBS to parents, caregivers, daycare workers,
and health care professionals; and
 
  WHEREAS, The NYS Office of Children  and  Family  Services  used  to
support  the  work  of  hospital  based  education  programs through the
efforts of the Safe Babies New York program, helping hospitals  bringing
this  and  other important safety information to the families of 160,000
babies born in New York State until 2018; and
 
  WHEREAS, In the absence of the  Safe  Babies  coordination  services
that  were  once  funded  by OCFS, Hospitals must now rely on individual
educators to deliver the Never Shake a Baby message to the  new  parents
of  the  nearly  200,000  newborn children that will be born in New York
State this year; and
 
  WHEREAS, Home visiting programs, such as Healthy Families New  York,
the  Nurse  Family  Partnership, and other programs for new parents show
great promise for preventing maltreatment; and
 
  WHEREAS, These prevention efforts are supported by  national  groups
such  as the American Academy of Pediatrics, Prevent Child Abuse America
and the National Center for Shaken Baby Syndrome, as well as individuals
and organizations in New York State, such as  Prevent  Child  Abuse  New
York, the Cynthia Gibbs Foundation, and the SKIPPER Initiative, who work
to  educate  new  parents  and  caregivers, increase awareness among the
general public and professionals, and encourage  increased  support  for
victims  and  their  families  in  the  health care and criminal justice
systems; and
 
  WHEREAS, The New York State Legislature has enacted  legislation  to
help  increase  awareness  of AHT/SBS by requiring that: hospitals offer
written information about Shaken Baby Syndrome (2001);  new  child  care
providers  be  educated about the causes, consequences and prevention of
SBS before they are licensed to care for children (2003); hospitals  too
offer  new  parents  the  opportunity to watch a video about the causes,
consequences and prevention of SBS so that they can help  protect  their
child  from  shaking injuries (2004); the Health Department coordinate a
 
statewide campaign to educate the public about the causes,  consequences
and  prevention  of  SBS  (2006);  the  Education  Department  provide a
curriculum on SBS to schools so that  students,  who  not  only  may  be
parents  someday, but who may be babysitting for young children now, are
educated about the importance of coping skills (2006); and
 
  WHEREAS, This Legislative Body wishes to  commend  those  advocates,
organizations  and agencies of State, county and local governments which
work continuously and tirelessly to educate parents and caregivers about
the causes, consequences and  prevention  of  SBS  and  other  inflicted
injuries; and
 
  WHEREAS,  This Legislative Body particularly wishes to recognize the
nurse educators who provide education  to  new  parents  at  New  York's
maternity  hospitals  so  that  every  new parent has the opportunity to
learn how they can help protect their child from shaking injuries;  now,
therefore, be it
 
  RESOLVED,  That  this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
memorialize Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim April 21-27,  2019,  as
Abusive  Head Trauma/Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week in the State of
New York; and be it further
 
  RESOLVED, That a copy of this  Resolution,  suitably  engrossed,  be
transmitted  to  The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of the State of
New York.
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