Illinois · statute · 405 ILCS 30 · 15 active provisions
Purpose. It is declared to be the policy and intent of the Illinois General Assembly that the Department of Human Services assume leadership in facilitating the establishment of comprehensive and coordinated arrays of private and public services for persons with mental illness, persons with a developmental disability,…
Community services system. Services should be planned, developed, delivered and evaluated as part of a comprehensive and coordinated system. The Department of Human Services shall encourage the establishment of services in each area of the State which cover the services categories described below. What specific service…
Responsibilities for community services. Pursuant to this Act, the Department of Human Services shall facilitate the establishment of a comprehensive and coordinated array of community services based upon a federal, State and local partnership. In order to assist in implementation of this Act, the Department shall pres…
Fire inspections; authority. (a) Per the requirements of Public Act 96-1141, on January 1, 2011 a report titled "Streamlined Auditing and Monitoring for Community Based Services: First Steps Toward a More Efficient System for Providers, State Government, and the Community" was provided for members of the General Assemb…
Financing for community services. (a) The Department of Human Services is authorized to provide financial reimbursement to eligible private service providers, corporations, local government entities or voluntary associations for the provision of services to persons with mental illness, persons with a developmental disa…
Respite Services. (a) The Department of Human Services shall coordinate and financially assist the provision of community respite services for persons with a developmental disability. A respite service is the supplying of a substitute caregiver on a short-term basis to provide temporary relief to the usual caregiver ma…
Family Support Services Voucher Pilot Program. (a) In this Section: "Family member" means a family member as defined by rules adopted by the Department of Human Services. "Family support services" means the services and activities described in subsection (d). (b) The Department of Human Services shall establish a Famil…
Funding reinvestment. (a) The purposes of this Section are as follows: (1) The General Assembly recognizes that the United States Supreme Court in Olmstead v. L.C. ex Rel. Zimring, 119 S. Ct. 2176 (1999), affirmed that the unjustifiable institutionalization of a person with a disability who could live in the community…
Consultation with advisory and advocacy groups. Whenever any appropriation, or any part of an appropriation, for any fiscal year relating to the funding of (i) a State-operated facility operated by the Office of Developmental Disabilities within the Department of Human Services or (ii) a mental health facility operated…
Closure and sale of State mental health or developmental disabilities facility. (a) Whenever a State mental health facility operated by the Department of Human Services is closed and the real estate on which the facility is located is sold by the State, then, to the extent that net proceeds are realized from the sale o…
Reduction in patient population in developmental disabilities facility. Whenever a State developmental disabilities facility operated by the Department of Human Services is scheduled to have or has a reduction in the number of individuals receiving care in an amount equal to or greater than 10% of the facility's prior…
Children's Healthcare Partnership Pilot Program. The Department of Human Services shall participate in the Children's Healthcare Partnership Pilot Program established under Section 12-4.37 of the Illinois Public Aid Code and may fund the provision of community services under this Act in Sangamon County through particip…
Payments for community Medicaid mental health services. (a) No later than July 1, 2011, community Medicaid mental health services provided by a community-based provider must be billed directly to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services. (b) For purposes of this Section: "Community Medicaid mental health servic…
This Act shall be known as the "Community Services Act". (Source: P.A. 82-183.)
Geographic analysis of supports and services in community settings. (a) For purposes of this Section: "Direct support professionals" means direct support workers, direct care workers, personal assistants, personal attendants, and paraprofessionals that provide assistance to individuals with developmental disabilities o…