Illinois Compiled Statutes 20 Executive Branch: Article -

• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 1
  The purpose of this Act is to create a Department of Children and Family Services to provide social services to children and their families,...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 1.1
  This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Children and Family Services Act. (Source: P.A. 86-820.)
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 2
  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,...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 2.1
  The Department shall ensure a sufficient number of placement and other resources of sufficient quality and variety to meet the needs of children and...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 3
  To establish such subdivisions of the Department as shall be desirable and assign to the various subdivisions the responsibilities and duties placed upon the...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 4
  To make all rules necessary for the execution of its powers. The superintendent of each institution and division of the Department shall make such...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 4a
  (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...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 4b
  Youth transitional housing programs. The Department may license youth transitional housing programs. For the purposes of this Section, "youth transitional housing program" means a program...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 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...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 5a
  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...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 5b
  Child Care and Development Fund; Department of Human Services. (a) Until October 1, 1998: The Child Care and Development Fund is hereby created as...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 5c
  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...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 5d
  The Direct Child Welfare Service Employee License Board. (a) For purposes of this Section: (1) "Board" means the Direct Child Welfare Service Employee License...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 5e
  Advocacy Office for Children and Families. The Department of Children and Family Services shall establish and maintain an Advocacy Office for Children and Families...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 5.10
  Direct child welfare services; Department of Human Services. The Department of Human Services shall provide direct child welfare services when not available through other...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 5.15
  Daycare; Department of Human Services. (a) For the purpose of ensuring effective statewide planning, development, and utilization of resources for the day care of...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 5.20
  Child care for former public aid recipients; Department of Human Services. The Department of Human Services may provide child care services to former recipients...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 5.25
  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...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 5.30
  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...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 5.35
  Residential services; rates. (a) In this Section, "residential services" means child care institution care, group home care, independent living services, and transitional living services that...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 6
  The Department shall not authorize payment under Section 5 or accept guardianship for any child for whom a final dependency order has been entered...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 6.5
  Children; methamphetamine; protocol. (a) The Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of State Police, and the State Board of Education shall jointly develop...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 6a
  Case Plan. (a) With respect to each Department client for whom the Department is providing placement service, the Department shall develop a case plan...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 6b
  Case tracking system. (1) The Department shall establish and operate a case tracking system which shall be designed to monitor and evaluate family preservation,...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 6c
  Parental inquiry. The Department shall maintain a system of response to inquiry made by parents or putative parents as to whether their child is...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 7
  Placement of children; considerations. (a) In placing any child under this Act, the Department shall place the child, as far as possible, in the care...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 7.1
  One Church One Child Advisory Board. There is created the One Church One Child Advisory Board to advise the Department in the placement of...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 7.2
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. 7-3-94. Repealed by P.A. 91-798, eff. 7-9-00.)
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 7.3
  Placement plan. The Department shall develop and implement a written plan for placing children. The plan shall include at least the following features: (1)...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 7.4
  Development and preservation of sibling relationships for children in care; placement of siblings; contact among siblings placed apart. (a) Purpose and policy. The General Assembly...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 7.5
  Notice of post-adoption reunion services. (a) For purposes of this Section, "post-adoption reunion services" means services provided by the Department to facilitate contact between adoptees...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 7.7
  Limit on multiple placements. If the Department has placed a child in substitute care pursuant to a court order, the Department may not change...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 8
  Scholarships and fee waivers. Each year the Department may select from among the youth under care, youth who aged out of care at age 18...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 8a
  No otherwise qualified child with a disability receiving special education and related services under Article 14 of The School Code shall solely by reason...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 8b
  No homeless person eligible to receive benefits or services from the Department shall, by reason of his or her status as a homeless person,...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 9
  To exercise executive and administrative supervision over all institutions, divisions, programs and services now existing or hereafter acquired or created under the jurisdiction of...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 9.1
  The parents or guardians of the estates of children accepted for care and training under the Juvenile Court Act or the Juvenile Court Act of...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 9.2
  The Department shall have authority to enter into agreements with units of local government or individuals with the approval of the Attorney General, for...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 9.3
  Declarations by Parents and Guardians. Information requested of parents and guardians shall be submitted on forms or questionnaires prescribed by the Department or units of...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 9.4
  Investigation and Determination. The Department shall review the forms or questionnaires returned by each parent or guardian and supplement the information provided therein, where...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 9.5
  Notice of Parental Payments Due. When the Department has determined that a parent or guardian is liable for payment for care and support of...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 9.6
  Parental Payments. The notice to responsible parents and guardians issued pursuant to Section 9.5 shall direct payment to the Department, as provided by regulation....
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 9.7
  Alternative Actions to Enforce Parental Payments Due. If a responsible parent or guardian fails or refuses to make parental payments for care and training...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 9.8
  Court Enforcement. The Department shall refer to the State's Attorney, Attorney General, or to the proper legal representative of the unit of government or...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 9.8a
  Child Welfare Litigation Division. The Department of Children and Family Services Child Welfare Litigation Division in the Office of the Attorney General shall represent...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 9.9
  Review under Administrative Review Law. Any responsible parent or guardian affected by a final administrative decision of the Department in a hearing, conducted pursuant to...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 10
  To establish and operate in the regions of the State additional shelter care or group care facilities. (Source: P.A. 83-180.)
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 11
  To appoint and remove the superintendents of the institutions operated by the Department, to obtain all other employees subject to the provisions of the...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 11.1
  Department employees; restrictions. No person may be employed by the Department who has been declared a sexually dangerous person under the Sexually Dangerous Persons Act...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 12
  (a) To provide supervision, housing accommodations, board or the payment of boarding costs, tuition, and treatment free of charge, except as otherwise specified in this...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 12.1
  To cooperate with the State Board of Education and the Department of Human Services in a program to provide for the placement, supervision and...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 12.2
  To cooperate with the Department of Human Services in any programs or projects regarding the care and education of handicapped children, particularly in relation...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 17
  Youth and Community Services Program. The Department of Human Services shall develop a State program for youth and community services which will assure that...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 17a-1
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97. Repealed by P.A. 91-798, eff. 7-9-00.)
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 17a-2
  Local boards and service systems; Department of Human Services. The Department of Human Services shall promulgate regulations for the establishment and recognition of service...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 17a-3
  Annual community youth service plan; Department of Human Services. Each local board or local service system shall, in conformity with regulations of the Department...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 17a-4
  Grants for community-based youth services; Department of Human Services. (a) The Department of Human Services shall make grants for the purpose of planning, establishing,...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 17a-5
  The Department of Human Services shall be successor to the Department of Children and Family Services in the latter Department's capacity as successor to the...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 17a-6
  (A) Personnel exercising the rights, powers and duties in the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission that are transferred to the Department of Children and Family...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 17a-7
  Units of General Local Government - Agreements for Funds. Units of general local government may apply for, receive, disburse, allocate and account for grants...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 17a-8
  Agreements for Cooperative Action by Units of General Local Government. Any two or more units of general local government may enter into agreements with...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 17a-9
  Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission. (a) There is hereby created the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission which shall consist of 25 persons appointed by the Governor. The...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 17a-10
  The Department of Human Services may administer unified delinquency intervention services to provide community-based alternatives to commitment to the Department of Corrections of children...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 17a-11
  Governor's Youth Services Initiative. In cooperation with the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Department of Human Services and the Illinois State Board of Education, the...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 17a-12
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-1004. Repealed by P.A. 91-60, eff. 6-30-99.)
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 17a-13
  The Department shall establish a minimum of 3 citizen review panels for the purpose of evaluating the extent to which public and private agencies...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 17a-15
  Community service programs; Department of Human Services. (a) The Department of Human Services must establish a program to award grants to area projects to plan,...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 18a-13
  (Repealed). (Source P.A. 90-14, eff. 7-1-97. Repealed internally, eff. 12-31-97.)
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 20
  To control the admission and transfer of persons in the programs of the Department. The Department may divide the State into such regions as...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 21
  Investigative powers; training. (a) To make such investigations as it may deem necessary to the performance of its duties. (b) In the course of any...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 21.1
  In any proceeding in which the Department of Children and Family Services is a party, books, papers, records, warrants, computer printouts and memoranda showing...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 21.5
  Training; advice to subjects of investigation. The Department shall train all child protective investigators concerning the statutory and constitutional rights of individuals subject to investigation...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 22
  To receive, hold, distribute and use for indicated purposes and the benefit of persons receiving care or service, monies and materials made available by...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 22.1
  Grants-in-aid for child care services; Department of Human Services. (a) Blank. (b) Blank. (c) The Department of Human Services shall establish and operate day care...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 22.2
  To provide training programs for the provision of foster care and adoptive care services. Training provided to foster parents shall include training and information on...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 22.3
  To provide human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing for any child in the custody of the Department being placed in adoptive care, upon the request of...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 22.4
  Low-interest loans for child care facilities; Department of Human Services. The Department of Human Services may establish, with financing to be provided through the...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 23
  To make agreements with any other department, authority or commission of this State, any State university or public or private agency, to make and receive...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 24
  To direct the expenditure of all money which has been or may be received by any officer of the several State institutions under the...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 25
  Grants, gifts, or legacies; Putative Father Registry fees. (a) To accept and hold in behalf of the State, if for the public interest, a grant,...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 29
  To establish, maintain and operate cemeteries in connection with the institutions of the Department for the interment of the remains of deceased residents of...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 30
  To prescribe and require surety bonds from any officer or employee under the jurisdiction of the Department, where deemed advisable, in such penal sums...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 31
  To keep, for each institution under the jurisdiction of the Department, a register of the number of officers, employees and residents present each day...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 32
  To keep, for each institution under the jurisdiction of the Department, so far as may be practicable, a record of stores and supplies received...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 34
  To report annually in writing to the Governor, on or before the first day of December, on the conditions, management and financial transactions of...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 34.1
  To report to the appropriate local law enforcement agency, the Department's knowledge of any foster parent's criminal behavior relative to child care activity. (Source:...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 34.2
  To conduct meetings in each service region between local youth service, police, probation and aftercare workers to develop inter-agency plans to combat gang crime. The...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 34.3
  To conduct supervisory reviews of cases handled by caseworkers and other direct-service personnel to determine whether such persons, in the conduct of their duties,...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 34.4
  To enter into referral agreements, on its own behalf and on behalf of agencies funded by the Department, with licensed alcohol and drug abuse...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 34.5
  To make such inquiry as may be appropriate, in any intake or investigation which the Department is required or authorized to conduct, to determine...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 34.6
  To submit to the General Assembly no later than March 1 of each year a report in relation to the incidence of alcohol and...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 34.7
  To ensure that persons knowledgeable in the causes and treatment of drug and alcohol abuse are appointed to all advisory committees of the Department....
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 34.8
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 85-1394. Repealed by P.A. 95-91, eff. 1-1-08.)
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 34.9
  The Department may, in conjunction with colleges or universities in this State, establish programs to train low-income older persons to be child care workers....
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 34.10
  Home child care demonstration project; conversion and renovation grants; Department of Human Services. (a) The legislature finds that the demand for quality child care far...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 34.11
  Lou Jones Grandparent Child Care Program. (a) The General Assembly finds and declares the following: (1) An increasing number of children under the age of...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 34.12
  Federal family resource and support program grants. Each year, the Department shall submit an application to the Commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youths,...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 35
  No officer, agent or employee of the Department of Children and Family Services shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract, or other...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 35.1
  The case and clinical records of patients in Department supervised facilities, wards of the Department, children receiving or applying for child welfare services, persons receiving...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 35.2
  If a child has been found to be an abused minor under Section 4-8 of the Juvenile Court Act or Section 2-21 of the...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 35.3
  Confidentiality of foster parent identifying information. (a) Because foster parents accept placements into their residences, it is the policy of the State of Illinois...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 35.5
  Inspector General. (a) The Governor shall appoint, and the Senate shall confirm, an Inspector General who shall have the authority to conduct investigations into allegations...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 35.6
  State-wide toll-free telephone number. (a) There shall be a State-wide, toll-free telephone number for any person, whether or not mandated by law, to report...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 35.7
  Error Reduction Implementations Plans; Inspector General. (a) The Inspector General of the Department of Children and Family Services shall develop Error Reduction Implementation Plans, as...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 36
  Transfer to DCFS (1964). All personnel, materials, books, records, appropriations and other resources and equipment of any institution, facility or service relating to children's...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 37
  Internal oversight review and unified report. As required in Section 1-37 of the Department of Human Services Act, the Department shall conduct an internal review...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 37a
  Cross-agency prequalification and master service agreements. As required in Section 1-37a of the Department of Human Services Act, the Department shall have the authority and...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 38
  Should any court of competent jurisdiction hold any section, subdivision, clause, phrase, or provision of this Act to be unconstitutional or invalid for any...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 39
  The provisions for repeal contained in this Act shall not in any way affect an offense committed, an act done, a penalty, punishment, or...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 39.1
  Kinship Navigator Act. The Kinship Navigator established under the Kinship Navigator Act shall coordinate the child welfare services administered by the Department in relation to...
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 39.2
  Illinois Children's Justice Task Force. The Illinois Children's Justice Task Force, in compliance with (i) the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) (42 U.S.C....
• Illinois Children and Family Services Act. - 20 ILCS 505, Section 40
  Sections 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 40, 41 and 42 of "An Act codifying the powers and duties of the Department of Mental...

Last modified: February 18, 2015