Illinois Compiled Statutes 325 ILCS 15 — Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Act.

Short title

Short title. This Act may be cited as the Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

The General Assembly finds that there is a need to develop programs to provide the kinds of innovative strategies and services which will prevent, ameliorate, reduce, and eliminate the trauma of child sexual abuse and exploitation. The General Assembly also finds that for the purposes of developing and providing such p…

The Department of Children and Family Services shall develop programs and services for the prevention of child sexual abuse and exploitation and shall provide for the treatment and counseling of sexually abused children and their families, where such sexual abuse or exploitation was inflicted by the child's immediate c…

The functions and goals of the programs to be developed and provided by the Department of Children and Family Services shall include: (a) Provision of counseling, treatment, rehabilitation and assistance to sexually abused and exploited children and their families, particularly to victims of predatory criminal sexual a…

The Department of Children and Family Services shall support through a grant program a child sexual abuse crisis intervention demonstration center in Cook County and in other parts of the State as funding permits. The functions and goals of such crisis intervention centers shall be: (a) To respond within 24 hours or as…

All records concerning reports of child sexual abuse or exploitation made to child sexual abuse and exploitation treatment center or to child sexual abuse crisis intervention demonstration centers and all records generated as a result of such reports, shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed except as specifica…

The centers may seek, receive, and make use of any funds which may be made available from federal, voluntary, philanthropic, or other sources in order to augment any state funds appropriated for the purposes of this Act. (Source: P.A. 82-712.)

The Director of the Department of Children and Family Services shall submit annual reports to the General Assembly concerning the Department's findings regarding the degree of achievement of the goals of this Act. (Source: P.A. 103-22, eff. 8-8-23.)