RISE from Trauma Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The RISE from Trauma Act is a broad trauma-response package. HHS, working with CDC and SAMHSA leadership, awards grants for local coordinating bodies that prevent or mitigate trauma and toxic stress. It expands performance partnership pilots for children at risk of trauma, creates hospital-based intervention grants for patients presenting after overdose, suicide attempt, violent injury, or abuse, reauthorizes and expands the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, and reauthorizes school trauma support grants. It directs health workforce programs to emphasize recruitment from communities with high levels of trauma, violence, or addiction, adds $50 million per year for National Health Service Corps placements in schools and community-based settings from fiscal years 2026 through 2030, and establishes infant and early childhood mental-health clinical leadership grants. It requires HHS toolkits for front-line providers and creates DOJ grants for children exposed to violence or substance use plus a National Law Enforcement Child and Youth Trauma Coordinating Center.
Who Benefits and How
Infants, children, youth, and families affected by trauma benefit from coordinated prevention, treatment, and resilience grants. Hospitals and health systems benefit from grants for intervention programs that reduce readmissions and reinjury. Schools and teachers benefit from trauma-informed support, preparation, and toolkits. Community-based organizations and Tribal organizations benefit from roles as grant recipients and partners. Mental-health clinicians, National Health Service Corps participants, and early childhood training institutes benefit from workforce funding. State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies benefit from the national coordinating center and technical assistance.
Who Bears the Burden and How
HHS, CDC, SAMHSA, HRSA, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Education, and DOJ staff must create grant competitions, coordinate programs, evaluate outcomes, issue guidance, develop toolkits, and manage appropriations. Grant recipients must implement evidence-informed activities, report outcomes, coordinate across health, education, child welfare, justice, and community partners, and serve trauma-affected populations. Hospitals, schools, law enforcement agencies, and nonprofit organizations may need new training, referral protocols, data collection, and trauma-informed practice changes. Federal taxpayers fund multiple authorizations, including the National Health Service Corps allocation and new DOJ center activities.
Key Provisions
- Authorizes grants for local coordinating bodies addressing community trauma, prevention, toxic stress, and resilience.
- Expands performance partnership pilots for infants, children, youth, and families affected by trauma.
- Creates hospital-based intervention grants for overdose, suicide attempt, violent injury, and abuse cases.
- Reauthorizes the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and school trauma support grants through fiscal years 2026 through 2030.
- Provides $50 million per year for National Health Service Corps awards in schools and community settings.
- Creates infant and early childhood mental-health clinical leadership training grants.
- Requires HHS toolkits for front-line providers serving trauma-exposed children and families.
- Creates DOJ grants for children exposed to violence or substance use and establishes a National Law Enforcement Child and Youth Trauma Coordinating Center.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Expands federal trauma and resilience policy through SAMHSA, CDC, HRSA, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Department of Education, and Department of Justice grants, including local trauma coordinating bodies, hospital interventions, school supports, workforce pipelines, provider toolkits, violence-prevention grants, and a law-enforcement child trauma center.
Key Policy Areas
Mental Health, Children, Public Health, Education, Law Enforcement, Federal Grants
Primary Purpose
Expands federal trauma and resilience policy through SAMHSA, CDC, HRSA, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Department of Education, and Department of Justice grants, including local trauma coordinating bodies, hospital interventions, school supports, workforce pipelines, provider toolkits, violence-prevention grants, and a law-enforcement child trauma center.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Infants
- Children
- Youth
- Families
- Hospitals
- Schools
- Community-based organizations
- Tribal organizations
- Mental-health clinicians
- Law enforcement agencies
Identified Costs
- HHS staff
- CDC staff
- SAMHSA staff
- HRSA staff
- Department of Education staff
- Department of Justice staff
- Grant recipients
- Hospitals
- Schools
- Federal taxpayers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Davis of Illinois (for himself and Mr. Steil) introduced …
Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in …
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Department of Justice, Federal agencies administering the expanded trauma-informed pilot authority, Federal budget financing the additional National Health Service Corps awards
Positive-direction: State, local, tribal, and community entities participating in trauma-informed care pilots under the expanded performance partnership framework, State, local, tribal, and nonprofit entities eligible for trauma and resilience coordinating-body grants, States, local governments, tribes, and nonprofit organizations eligible for child-trauma violence and substance-use grants
Negative-direction: Department of Justice, Federal agencies administering the expanded trauma-informed pilot authority, Federal budget financing the additional National Health Service Corps awards, Federal budget financing the child-trauma violence and substance-use grant program, Federal budget financing the coordinating-body grant program, Federal budget financing the new infant and early childhood mental-health training grants, Federal budget financing the reauthorized child traumatic stress network, Federal health officials responsible for grant oversight, outcome reporting, and reimbursement guidance, Federal health-workforce administrators required to shift recruitment emphasis and partnerships, HHS staff
Children, Children exposed to trauma, Children, youth, and families served by trauma-informed violence and substance-use interventions
Eligible academic institutions, hospitals, and affiliated entities receiving infant and early childhood mental-health training grants, Eligible teacher-preparation partnerships offering trauma-informed and resilience-focused training, Schools and related entities eligible for trauma support services grants
Eligible National Health Service Corps award recipients serving in schools or community-based settings, Health care providers, Hospitals and health systems eligible for trauma-informed intervention grants
Local law enforcement agencies, State law enforcement agencies
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "CDC"
- → Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- "DOJ"
- → Department of Justice
- "HHS"
- → Department of Health and Human Services
- "HRSA"
- → Health Resources and Services Administration
- "SAMHSA"
- → Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
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