Illinois · statute · 20 ILCS 505 · 135 active provisions
The purpose of this Act is to create a Department of Children and Family Services to provide social services to children and their families, to operate children's institutions, and to provide certain other rehabilitative and residential services as enumerated in this Act. It is the intent of this Act that the child wel…
This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Children and Family Services Act. (Source: P.A. 86-820.)
In addition to the powers and duties otherwise provided by law, the Department shall have the powers enumerated in Sections 3 through 34.12 inclusive, except as otherwise provided in those Sections. (Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)
The Department shall ensure a sufficient number of placement and other resources of sufficient quality and variety to meet the needs of children and families as specified in the individual case plan in Sec. 6a of this Act. Nothing in this Sec. shall be construed to create a private right of action or a judicially enfor…
Annual reports on youth in care waiting for placement. No later than December 31, 2018, and on December 31 of each year thereafter, the Department shall prepare and submit an annual report, covering the previous fiscal year, to the General Assembly regarding youth in care waiting for placements or psychiatric hospitali…
To establish such subdivisions of the Department as shall be desirable and assign to the various subdivisions the responsibilities and duties placed upon the Department by the Laws of the State of Illinois. (Source: Laws 1963, p. 1061.)
To make all rules necessary for the execution of its powers. The superintendent of each institution and division of the Department shall make such special rules as may be needed, subject to the approval of the Director. The provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act are hereby expressly adopted and shall a…
(a) To administer child abuse prevention shelters and service programs for abused and neglected children, or provide for their administration by not-for-profit corporations, community-based organizations or units of local government. The Department is hereby designated the single State agency for planning and coordinat…
Youth transitional housing programs. (a) The Department may license youth transitional housing programs. For the purposes of this Section, "youth transitional housing program" means a program that provides shelter or housing and services to eligible homeless minors. Services provided by the youth transitional housing p…
Temporary residential shelter services. Any child care facility authorized by the Department to provide temporary residential shelter services to children in the guardianship, temporary custody, or protective custody of the Department shall: (1) provide interventions and activities that engage the children and youth in…
Definitions. (a) As used in this Act: "Caregiver" means a certified relative caregiver, relative caregiver, or foster parent with whom a youth in care is placed. "Certified relative caregiver" has the meaning ascribed to that term in Section 2.36 of the Child Care Act of 1969. "Certified relative caregiver home" has th…
Prohibited restraints for youth in care during transport. (a) Purpose and policy. It is the policy of this State to treat youth in the care of the Department with dignity and respect at all times, including during transport of the youth. (b) Definitions. As used in this Section: "Chemical restraint" means the use of me…
Transportation providers; compliance requirements. (a) A purchase of service agency under contract with the Department to provide transportation services to children and families under this Act must comply with all applicable federal and State laws and regulations and Department rules. When the purchase of service agen…
(Text of Section from P.A. 104-107) Sec. 5. Direct child welfare services; Department of Children and Family Services. To provide direct child welfare services when not available through other public or private child care or program facilities. (a) For purposes of this Section: (1) "Children" means persons found within…
Reimbursable services for which the Department of Children and Family Services shall pay 100% of the reasonable cost pursuant to a written contract negotiated between the Department and the agency furnishing the services (which shall include but not be limited to the determination of reasonable cost, the services being…
Direct child welfare service employee license. (a) By January 1, 2000, the Department, in consultation with private child welfare agencies, shall develop and implement a direct child welfare service employee license. By January 1, 2001 all child protective investigators and supervisors and child welfare specialists and…
The Direct Child Welfare Service Employee License Board. (a) For purposes of this Section: (1) "Board" means the Direct Child Welfare Service Employee License Board. (2) "Director" means the Director of Children and Family Services. (b) The Direct Child Welfare Service Employee License Board is created within the Depar…
Advocacy Office for Children and Families. (a) The Department of Children and Family Services shall establish and maintain an Advocacy Office for Children and Families that shall, in addition to other duties assigned by the Director, receive and respond to complaints that may be filed by children, parents, caretakers,…
Reimbursement rates. On July 1, 2019, the Department of Children and Family Services shall increase rates in effect on June 30, 2019 for providers by 5%. The contractual and grant services eligible for increased reimbursement rates under this Section include the following: (1) Residential services, including child care…
Administrative safeguards for sensitive identity information. (a) The Department shall protect a child from unnecessary and unapproved disclosure of the child's sensitive identity information. Before or at the time the Department requests, initiates, or engages in a conversation, assessment, or service interaction in w…
Victims of sex trafficking. (a) Legislative findings. Because of their histories of trauma, youth in the care of the Department of Children and Family Services are particularly vulnerable to sex traffickers. Sex traffickers often target child care facilities licensed by the Department to recruit their victims. Foster c…
Direct child welfare services; Department of Human Services. The Department of Human Services shall provide direct child welfare services when not available through other public or private child care or program facilities. For purposes of this Section, "child welfare services" means public social services that are dire…
Behavioral health services. (a) Every child in the care of the Department of Children and Family Services under this Act shall receive the necessary behavioral health services including but not limited to: mental health services, trauma services, substance abuse services, and developmental disabilities services. The pr…
Foster children; exit interviews. (a) Unless clinically contraindicated, the Department shall ensure that an exit interview is conducted with every child age 5 and over who leaves a foster home. (1) The interview shall be conducted by a caseworker, mental health provider, or clinician from the Department's Division of…
Specialized care. (a) Not later than July 1, 2007, the Department shall adopt a rule, or an amendment to a rule then in effect, regarding the provision of specialized care to a child in the custody or guardianship of the Department, or to a child being placed in a subsidized guardianship arrangement or under an adoptio…