1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Trauma-Informed Care for Children and Families Act of 2017 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The 2007 Great Smoky Mountains Study, a representative longitudinal study of children, found that by age 16, more than 67 percent of the children had been exposed to 1 or more traumatic events, such as child maltreatment, domestic violence, or sexual assault. (2) According to a 2009 Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention study of children ages 0 through 17, more than 60 percent of the children surveyed were exposed to violence within the past year, either directly or indirectly. (3) According to the Administration for Children and Families, the rate of substantiated reports of child maltreatment in fiscal year 2015 was 9.2 per 1,000 children ages 0 through 17, with children under age 1 having the highest rate of 24.2 per 1,000 children. (4) According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, a longitudinal study of youth detained at a juvenile detention center in Chicago showed that 92.5 percent of youth had experienced at least 1 trauma, and 84 percent had experienced more than 1 trauma. (5) The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that nearly 1 in 5 women reported having been the victim of a rape at some time during their lives. Seventy-eight percent experienced their first rape before the age of 25. (6) A 2017 study found that abuse and maltreatment suffered as a child was associated with post-traumatic stress disorder and opioid-related misuse as an adult, and recommended that trauma history and post-traumatic stress disorder symptom severity be addressed as part of opioid addiction treatment. (7) Findings from the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shown that adverse childhood experiences predispose children towards negative trajectories from infancy through