Ill. Admin. Code tit. 89, § 302.530 - Phase-in Plan for Statewide Intensive Family Preservation Services
The Department will phase-in intensive family preservation services in the following manner:
a)
During the first phase the Department will fund programs in at least one site
in each of the Department's seven downstate regions and four sites in Cook
County. These sites will be selected based on the following criteria:
1) the number of protective
custodies
2) the number of children
in foster care
3) the number of
indicated reports of child abuse or neglect for families with children 0-6
years of age
4) the availability of
other placement prevention resources
b) These programs will be directed toward
families:
1) who are the subject of a child
abuse or neglect report, and
2) who
have at least one child under the age of six residing in the home,
and
3) for whom immediate placement
of the child(ren) has been determined necessary or the Department has taken
protective custody of the child(ren) until intensive family preservation
services are in place, and
4) who
have been the subject of three (3) or fewer indicated reports, and
5) whose children, in the judgment of the
Department, are not jeopardized by remaining at or being returned home if
intensive family preservation services are provided.
c) Three years following the beginning of the
first phase, programs providing family preservation services to the identical
target population shall be extended throughout the state.
d) During the second phase, depending on
sufficient funds appropriated by the General Assembly, the Department will fund
programs to:
1) extend intensive family
preservation services to the same target population as defined in subsection
(a)(1) residing in other geographical areas of the state. The geographical
areas for expansion will be selected on the basis of the same criteria listed
in subsection (a)(2).
2) increase
the age of the youngest child in the targeted population up to and including 12
years of age;
3) begin providing
intensive family preservation services to families with children in placement
four months or less in order to reunite these families if family preservation
is an appropriate goal.
e) Programs providing intensive family
preservation services directed toward the following remaining populations will
be phased in, depending on sufficient appropriations, in the following order:
1) families with indicated reports of child
abuse or neglect that are classified as Priority I or severe Priority II
reports as defined in Appendix B, Child Abuse and Neglect Allegations, of 89
Ill. Adm. Code 300, Reports of Child Abuse and Neglect;
2) families with children up to and including
17 years of age who are the subjects of an abuse or neglect report and for whom
immediate placement is considered;
3) all families with children in substitute
care and for whom reunification is an appropriate goal;
4) any persons who have adopted a child and
require post adoption services.
Notes
Added at 14 Ill. Reg. 19010, effective November 15, 1990
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