Establishes a health care worker peer support program to provide grants for mental health programs.

The bill enacts the health care worker peer support program, which establishes a grant program for eligible entities to create peer-to-peer mental health programs for health care workers. The program includes standards for training health care worker peer volunteers in mental illness, including post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide prevention. The commissioner of mental health is directed to establish this program and award grants up to $250,000 each.

Establishes a health care worker peer support program to provide grants for mental health programs.

The bill enacts the health care worker peer support program, which establishes a grant program for eligible entities to create peer-to-peer mental health programs for health care workers. The program includes standards for training health care worker peer volunteers in mental illness, including post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide prevention. The commissioner of mental health is directed to establish this program and award grants up to $250,000 each.