Victims of violent crimes: trauma recovery centers.

Existing law requires the California Victim Compensation Board to administer a program to assist state residents to obtain compensation for their pecuniary losses suffered as a direct result of criminal acts. Payment is made under these provisions from the Restitution Fund, which is continuously appropriated to the board for these purposes. Existing law requires the California Victim Compensation Board to administer a program to evaluate applications and award grants to trauma recovery centers funded by moneys in the Restitution Fund. This bill would make legislative findings and recognize the Trauma Recovery Center at San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, as the State Pilot Trauma Recovery Center (State Pilot TRC) . The bill would require the board to use the evidence-based Integrated Trauma Recovery Services model developed by the State Pilot TRC when it provides grants to trauma recovery centers. This bill would also require the board to enter into an interagency agreement with the Trauma Recovery Center of the University of California, San Francisco, to establish the State Pilot TRC as the technical assistance provider to the board for the period between July 1, 2017, and June 30, 2019. The bill would require the board to select a trauma recovery center, through a competitive process, to be the technical assistance provider every 2 years thereafter and would require that provider to assist the board by providing training materials, technical assistance, and ongoing consultation and programming to the board and to each center to enable the grantees to replicate the evidence-based approach. The bill would authorize the board to provide grants, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the technical assistance provider, up to a specified amount. The bill would require the board, through a competitive process, to select a 3rd party evaluator to conduct a review of the effectiveness of the trauma resource center model and the work done by grant recipients with the trauma resource center funds.