Bill Text: IL SB2550 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Youth and Community Services Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB2550 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB2550-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB2550 Introduced 2/6/2018, by Sen. Heather A. Steans SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 505/17 from Ch. 23, par. 5017
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Youth and Community Services Program.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended
by changing Section 17 as follows:
(20 ILCS 505/17) (from Ch. 23, par. 5017)
Sec. 17. Youth and Community Services Program. The The
Department of Human Services shall develop a State program for
youth and community services which will assure that youth who
come into contact or may come into contact with the child
welfare and the juvenile justice systems will have access to
needed community, prevention, diversion, emergency and
independent living services. The term "youth" means a person
under the age of 19 years. The term "homeless youth" means a
youth who cannot be reunited with his or her family and is not
in a safe and stable living situation. This Section shall not
be construed to require the Department of Human Services to
provide services under this Section to any homeless youth who
is at least 18 years of age but is younger than 19 years of age;
however, the Department may, in its discretion, provide
services under this Section to any such homeless youth.
(a) The goals of the program shall be to:
(1) maintain children and youths in their own

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community;
(2) eliminate unnecessary categorical funding of
programs by funding more comprehensive and integrated
programs;
(3) encourage local volunteers and voluntary
associations in developing programs aimed at preventing
and controlling juvenile delinquency;
(4) address voids in services and close service gaps;
(5) develop program models aimed at strengthening the
relationships between youth and their families and aimed at
developing healthy, independent lives for homeless youth;
(6) contain costs by redirecting funding to more
comprehensive and integrated community-based services; and
(7) coordinate education, employment, training and
other programs for youths with other State agencies.
(b) The duties of the Department under the program shall be
to:
(1) design models for service delivery by local
communities;
(2) test alternative systems for delivering youth
services;
(3) develop standards necessary to achieve and
maintain, on a statewide basis, more comprehensive and
integrated community-based youth services;
(4) monitor and provide technical assistance to local
boards and local service systems;

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(5) assist local organizations in developing programs
which address the problems of youths and their families
through direct services, advocacy with institutions, and
improvement of local conditions; and
(6) develop a statewide adoption awareness campaign
aimed at pregnant teenagers.
(Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)