Bill Text: IL SB1750 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Establishes a Youth in Care Well-Being Monitoring Workgroup to review and make recommendations regarding the Department of Children and Family Services' process of monitoring the well-being of children placed in Department-licensed child care facilities. Sets the minimum composition of the Workgroup. Requires the Workgroup to submit a report to the General Assembly with its recommendations by June 1, 2016. Requires the Department to implement the recommendations it finds feasible and appropriate and respond to the General Assembly within 120 days of the Workgroup report to explain the implementation or non-implementation of recommendations. Provides that the Department provide to the Workgroup all relevant records and information in its possession with confidential information redacted.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-24 - Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB1750 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SB1750-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 SB1750 Introduced 2/20/2015, by Sen. Julie A. Morrison SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 10/7.11 new
Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Establishes a Youth in Care Well-Being Monitoring Workgroup to review and make recommendations regarding the Department of Children and Family Services' process of monitoring the well-being of children placed in Department-licensed child care facilities. Sets the minimum composition of the Workgroup. Requires the Workgroup to submit a report to the General Assembly with its recommendations by June 1, 2016. Requires the Department to implement the recommendations it finds feasible and appropriate and respond to the General Assembly within 120 days of the Workgroup report to explain the implementation or non-implementation of recommendations. Provides that the Department provide to the Workgroup all relevant records and information in its possession with confidential information redacted.
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended by adding
Section 7.11 as follows:
(225 ILCS 10/7.11 new)
Sec. 7.11. Youth in Care Well-Being Monitoring Workgroup.
(a) The General Assembly finds and declares all of the
following:
(1) Children who have been removed by a court from the
care of their parents because of child abuse, neglect, or
dependency and placed in the custody or guardianship of the
Department of Children and Family Services have typically
experienced multiple traumatic events, including the
trauma that prompted the family's involvement with the
Department, the trauma of being removed from their family,
including their siblings and extended family, and
additional trauma while in the Department's care as the
result of being placed in multiple living arrangements.
(2) Repeated trauma can exacerbate the already fragile
emotional states of youth in the Department's care and
contribute to lower rates of returning home to parents and
adoption. It can also cause youth to require care in

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congregate care settings, as opposed to family-like
settings.
(3) When a court appoints the Department as the
guardian of a youth, the Department is required to, among
other things, act in the youth's best interests and to
ensure the youth's general welfare. When a court appoints
the Department as the custodian of a youth, the Department
has a duty to, among other things, protect the youth. The
Department is also responsible for licensing the child care
facilities with which it contracts to provide care to youth
in the Department's care.
(4) Youth placed in congregate care settings by the
Department are particularly vulnerable to abuse, neglect,
and maltreatment. Ensuring that children in the
Department's care do not experience additional trauma and
other negative experiences while in placements selected by
and licensed by the Department is of the upmost importance.
The Department must timely and effectively monitor the care
provided by its contracted child care facilities to ensure
the health, safety, and well-being of the children placed
in those facilities.
(b) The Department shall convene a Youth in Care Well-Being
Monitoring Workgroup to review and make recommendations
regarding the Department's process of monitoring the
well-being of children placed in Department-licensed child
care facilities. The Youth in Care Well-Being Monitoring

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Workgroup shall:
(1) review the Department's current monitoring process
for licensed child care facilities;
(2) make recommendations to the General Assembly for
improving the timeliness and efficacy of the Department's
monitoring process;
(3) make recommendations to the General Assembly to
ensure that monitoring standards address the quality of
life for youth in Department-licensed child care
facilities;
(4) establish written standards for monitoring the
safety and well-being of youth placed in
Department-licensed child care facilities; and
(5) oversee the implementation of its recommendations.
(c) The membership of the Youth in Care Well-Being
Monitoring Workgroup shall be appointed by the Director and
consist of a minimum of:
(1) two representatives of the Department, including
one who is familiar with the Department's current
monitoring process;
(2) one representative of a child advocacy
organization;
(3) one licensed clinician with expertise in reviewing
or monitoring child care facilities;
(4) one board-certified child and adolescent
psychiatrist with expertise in reviewing or monitoring

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child care facilities;
(5) two representatives from providers of residential
treatment programs in the State of Illinois;
(6) one representative of the Department's Youth
Advisory Board; and
(7) one representative of an agency independent of the
Department that has experience in accrediting or
monitoring residential treatment facilities.
(d) The Youth in Care Well-Being Monitoring Workgroup shall
submit a report to the General Assembly with its
recommendations by June 1, 2016.
(e) The Director of Children and Family Services shall
implement the Youth in Care Well-Being Monitoring Workgroup's
recommendations the Director finds feasible and appropriate
and shall respond in writing to the General Assembly within 120
days of the issuance of the Workgroup's report to explain the
implementation or non-implementation of each recommendation.
(f) The Department shall provide the Youth in Care
Well-Being Monitoring Workgroup with all records and
information in the Department's possession that are relevant to
the Youth in Care Well-Being Monitoring Workgroup's review of
the Department's monitoring process. Confidential information,
including names and identifying information of persons
receiving services from the Department, shall be redacted in
documents provided to the Youth in Care Well-Being Monitoring
Workgroup.