| R 276 |
| 2017 -- S 0336 Enacted 05/24/2017 |
| S E N A T E R E S O L U T I O N |
| RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION TO PERFORM A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF THE STAFFING NEEDS OF THE OFFICES OF THE CHILD ADVOCATE AND THE MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATE |
| Introduced By: Senators Lynch Prata, Miller, Goldin, Sosnowski, and Goodwin |
| Date Introduced: February 16, 2017 |
| WHEREAS, The mission of the Office of the Child Advocate is to protect the legal rights |
| of children in state care and to promote policies and practices which ensure that children are safe, |
| that children have permanent and stable families, and that children in out-of-home placements |
| have their physical, mental, medical, educational, emotional, and behavioral needs met; and |
| WHEREAS, The duties of the Office of the Mental Health Advocate include ensuring the |
| legal, civil, and special rights of people with mental illness, providing legal representation at |
| involuntary commitment hearings, monitoring procedures and policies at in-patient treatment |
| facilities and community-based health centers, and protecting the treatment rights of criminally |
| insane and inmates at the forensic hospital; now, therefore be it |
| RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations |
| hereby respectfully requests that the Department of Administration perform a comprehensive |
| study and analysis of the staffing needs of the Offices of the Child Advocate and the Mental |
| Health Advocate to ensure that those offices are adequately staffed in order to fulfill their |
| statutory duties and mission; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That this Senate hereby respectfully requests the Director of the |
| Department of Administration to report the findings of the comprehensive study and analysis of |
| the staffing needs of the Offices of the Child Advocate and the Mental Health Advocate to the |
| President of the Senate and the Chair of the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services on |
| or before June 1, 2017; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
| transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to the Director of the Department of |
| Administration of the State of Rhode Island, the Office of the Child Advocate, and the Office of |
| the Mental Health Advocate. |
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