§ 5-16 Specialized Training: Medical and Mental Health Care.
RCNY § 5-16
(a)CHA shall ensure that all full- and part-time medical and mental health care practitioners who work regularly in facilities have been trained in: (1) How to detect and assess signs of sexual abuse and sexual harassment; (2) How to preserve physical evidence of sexual abuse; (3) How to respond effectively and professionally to victims of sexual abuse and sexual harassment; and (4) How and to whom to report allegations or suspicions of sexual abuse and sexual harassment.
(b)The CHA shall maintain documentation that medical and mental health practitioners have received the training referenced in this section either from the CHA or elsewhere.
(c)Medical and mental health care practitioners shall also receive the training mandated for employees under 40 RCNY § 5-12 or for contractors and volunteers under 40 RCNY § 5-13, depending upon the practitioner's status at CHA.
(d)The specialized training of CHA's full- and part-time medical and mental health practitioner staff shall be completed by April 3, 2017.
(e)CHA shall provide to the Board on an annual basis the training schedules, training curriculum and credentials of the trainers, in accordance with this section, starting on March 1, 2017 for the previous year and on the first business day of March following the end of each year thereafter. (Added City Record 11/25/2016, eff. 1/2/2017)
