Stop, Observe, Ask, and Respond to Health and Wellness Training Program

The Secretary shall establish a program to be known as the Stop, Observe, Ask, and Respond to Health and Wellness Training Program or the SOAR to Health and Wellness Training Program (in this section referred to as the “Program”) to provide training to health care and social service providers on human trafficking in accordance with this section. The Program shall include the Stop, Observe, Ask, and Respond to Health and Wellness Training Program’s activities existing on the day before December 31, 2018, and the authorized initiatives described in paragraph (2). The authorized initiatives of the Program shall include— engaging stakeholders, including victims of human trafficking and Federal, State, local, and tribal partners, to develop a flexible training module— The Secretary may award grants to appropriate entities to train health care and social service providers to— The Secretary, in making awards under this section, shall give consideration to— The Secretary shall collect data and report on the following: In addition to the data required to be collected under paragraph (1), for purposes of the initial report to be submitted under paragraph (3), the Secretary shall collect data on the total number of facilities and health care professional organizations that were operating under, and the total number of health care and social service providers trained through, the Stop, Observe, Ask, and Respond to Health and Wellness Training Program existing prior to the establishment of the Program under this section. Not later than 1 year after December 31, 2018, and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall submit an annual report to Congress on the data collected under this subsection in a manner that, at a minimum, prevents the disclosure of individually identifiable information consistent with all applicable privacy laws and regulations. The Secretary shall make available, on the Internet website of the Department of Health and Human Services, a description of the best practices and procedures used by entities that receive a grant for carrying out activities under this section. In this section, the term “human trafficking” has the meaning given the term “severe forms of trafficking in persons” as defined in section 7102 of title 22. There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, $4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2024.