Ill. Admin. Code tit. 89, § 309.40 - Adoption Listing Services
a) The
Department or its agent shall maintain coded listings that include the names
and addresses of persons who have applied for and have been approved for the
adoption of a child. The listings shall also include the names of children for
whom:
1) the Department has determined, after
an internal legal screening, that adoption is the appropriate permanency plan
for the child; and
2) two weeks
have passed since the internal legal screening determination and an adoptive
resource has not yet been identified for the child.
b) The purpose of the adoption listing
service is to enable caseworkers to aggressively identify adoptive parents and
children for whom adoption is in their best interests.
c) When it can be demonstrated that it would
be contrary to the child's best interests to list the child due to the child's
mental health problems, the child shall not be listed. This exception must be
reviewed and reapproved by the Department's Regional Administrator every six
months.
d) Licensed Illinois
adoption agencies that provide adoption services on behalf of children for whom
the Department is legally responsible shall submit to the Department or its
agent, for inclusion in the coded listing, the names and addresses of all
persons who have applied and been approved for adoption of a child, who are
waiting for a child and who have authorized the listing. In addition, licensed
adoption agencies shall also submit to the Department or its agent for
inclusion in the coded listing the names of such children who have not been
placed for adoption.
e) The
Department or its agent shall make the coded listings available, without
charge, to every licensed adoption agency in the State in a format that, in
accordance with 89 Ill. Adm. Code 431, Confidentiality of Personal Information
of Persons Served by the Department of Children and Family Services, protects
the confidentiality of the persons seeking to adopt and of the child not yet
placed for adoption.
f) Information
regarding the child shall be made available as follows:
1) Information that is not included in the
listing, but is provided to licensed adoption agencies, shall include specific
personal information about the child, including, but not limited to, if
applicable, the child's mental health history, health history, HIV test results
or diagnosis of AIDS, or parental alcohol or substance abuse history.
2) Information provided to the general public
shall be limited to general information about the child such as the child's
personality, likes, dislikes, interests and activities. More specific personal
information shall only be provided to persons who have expressed an interest in
a specific child and are seriously considering adopting the child.
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