Relates to providing elder abuse prevention training to train senior service providers in the detection and reporting of elder abuse and shall also include training on counseling of elder abuse victims.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1968
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 18, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to providing elder abuse
prevention training
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 214-c of the executive law, as added by chapter 184
2 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 214-c. Elder abuse awareness and prevention training. 1. The super-
4 intendent, in cooperation with the state office for the aging and the
5 office of children and family services, shall, for all members of the
6 division of state police:
7 [(1)] a. develop, maintain and disseminate educational material relat-
8 ing to abuse of adults, including physical abuse, sexual abuse,
9 emotional abuse, active neglect, passive neglect, self neglect, and
10 financial exploitation, as such terms are defined in section four
11 hundred seventy-three of the social services law, and
12 [(2)] b. establish and implement written procedures and policies in
13 the event a member of the division of state police encounters such
14 abuse, including the provision of information and referral.
15 2. a. The superintendent shall develop a program to train senior
16 service providers in the detection and reporting of elder abuse. Such
17 program shall also include training on the counseling of elder abuse
18 victims.
19 b. The superintendent shall require that employees of senior centers
20 and employees of entities that contract with the state office for the
21 aging and the office of children and family services to provide services
22 to senior citizens, be trained in elder abuse detection, reporting and
23 counseling, and receive supplemental refresher training regarding the
24 same at least once every three years, if such employee has or is
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 expected to have significant and direct person to person contact with
2 senior citizens.
3 c. The superintendent shall require senior centers to hold at least
4 two educational sessions per year during which guests and members of the
5 senior center will receive counseling regarding elder abuse prevention
6 and awareness and be instructed on how to detect and report instances of
7 elder abuse.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
9 it shall have become a law.
