Bill Text: IL HR0859 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates Dr. Denise Kane on the occasion of her retirement and thanks her for her years of dedicated public service to youth in care and the State of Illinois.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-02-27 - Resolution Adopted [HR0859 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HR0859-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives wish to congratulate Illinois Department of | ||||||
| 4 | Children and Family Services (DCFS) Inspector General Denise | ||||||
| 5 | Kane, Ph.D. on
the occasion of her departure from government | ||||||
| 6 | service on January 31, 2018 after 25 years of service; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane was the State's first DCFS inspector | ||||||
| 8 | general appointee under former
Governor Jim Edgar in 1993; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane is the State's longest-serving inspector | ||||||
| 10 | general and has dedicated her life
to the children, youth and | ||||||
| 11 | families of Illinois; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane played an instrumental role in the | ||||||
| 13 | landmark federal case, Norman v.
Suter, that resulted in the | ||||||
| 14 | Norman Consent Decree that prohibits children from being | ||||||
| 15 | removed
from their homes due to poverty while serving as | ||||||
| 16 | Director of Social Services with the Public
Guardian's office; | ||||||
| 17 | and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane was the model of a true public servant in | ||||||
| 19 | her capacities as a social
worker, parent, and foster parent; | ||||||
| 20 | and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, During her tenure as inspector general, Dr. Kane | ||||||
| 2 | championed many practices and
policies that have reformed DCFS | ||||||
| 3 | in Illinois and increased safety, permanency, and well-being
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| 4 | for children, youth, and families involved in the child welfare | ||||||
| 5 | system; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane encouraged DCFS to use Parenting | ||||||
| 7 | Assessment Teams to ensure
that competent parents who suffered | ||||||
| 8 | from mental illness would not be wrongly removed from
their | ||||||
| 9 | children; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane advocated for the criminal background | ||||||
| 11 | checks of caretakers and worked
with the Illinois State Police | ||||||
| 12 | to ensure that DCFS would be permitted to access relevant | ||||||
| 13 | criminal
history; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane was dedicated to never losing focus on | ||||||
| 15 | the individual child through
initiatives such as requiring | ||||||
| 16 | child protection investigators to contact child centered | ||||||
| 17 | collaterals; and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane developed the Intensive Intact Family | ||||||
| 19 | Recovery Program, which
recognizes the special needs of working | ||||||
| 20 | with families struggling with substance use disorders; and
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| 21 | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane successfully challenged the DCFS | ||||||
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| 1 | practice of labeling children as young as
two years old as | ||||||
| 2 | 'sexual predators'; and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane developed the first Code of Ethics for | ||||||
| 4 | Child Welfare Professionals, which
has become a national model | ||||||
| 5 | and has been adopted in other states; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane recognized the critical importance of | ||||||
| 7 | including extended family in
developing solutions for | ||||||
| 8 | struggling parents and ensured that investigators fully | ||||||
| 9 | debriefed case
information with intact service workers; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane ensured that DCFS workers would not place | ||||||
| 11 | children in homes without
knowing that the homes were being | ||||||
| 12 | investigated for abuse or neglect; her office developed the
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| 13 | Home Safety Checklist to help families identify easily | ||||||
| 14 | correctable safety risks in the home; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, In addition to her unwavering commitment to child | ||||||
| 16 | welfare practice issues, Dr. Kane
worked tirelessly to identify | ||||||
| 17 | fraud and waste of taxpayer funds, whether it was by | ||||||
| 18 | unscrupulous
providers, or within DCFS itself; under her | ||||||
| 19 | leadership, the Office of the Inspector General for
DCFS | ||||||
| 20 | uncovered major frauds cases that were successfully criminally | ||||||
| 21 | prosecuted; therefore, be it
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| 1 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 2 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, | ||||||
| 3 | along with her family, friends, and co-workers, congratulate | ||||||
| 4 | Dr. Denise Kane on the occasion of her retirement, and thank | ||||||
| 5 | her for her years of dedicated public service to youth in care | ||||||
| 6 | and to the State of Illinois; and be it further
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| 7 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 8 | presented to Dr. Kane as an expression
of our utmost esteem and | ||||||
| 9 | respect.
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