705 ILCS 405/3-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 705 - COURTS|705 ILCS 405/ - Juvenile Court Act of 1987.|Article III - Minors Requiring Authoritative Intervention

 (from Ch. 37, par. 803-5)Sec. 3-5. Interim crisis intervention services.(a)  Any minor who  is taken into limited custody, or who independently requests  or is referred for assistance, may be provided crisis intervention services  by an agency or association, as defined in this Act,  provided the association or agency staff (i) immediately investigate the  circumstances of the minor and the facts surrounding the minor being taken  into custody and promptly explain these  facts and circumstances to the minor, and (ii) make a reasonable effort  to inform the minor's parent, guardian or custodian of the fact that the  minor has been taken into limited custody and where the minor is being  kept, and (iii) if the minor consents, make a reasonable effort  to transport, arrange for the transportation of, or otherwise release the  minor to the parent, guardian or custodian.  Upon release of the child who  is believed to need or benefit from medical, psychological, psychiatric  or social services, the association or agency may inform the minor and the  person to whom the minor is released of the nature and location of appropriate  services and shall, if requested, assist in establishing contact between  the family and other associations or agencies providing such services.  If the  agency or association is unable by all reasonable efforts to contact a parent,  guardian or custodian, or if the person contacted lives an unreasonable  distance away, or if the minor refuses to be taken to his or her home  or other appropriate residence, or if the agency or association is otherwise  unable despite all reasonable efforts to make arrangements for the safe  return of the minor, the minor may be taken to a temporary living  arrangement which is in compliance with the Child Care Act of 1969 or which  is with persons agreed to by the parents and the agency or association.(b) An agency or association is authorized to permit a minor to be sheltered  in a temporary living arrangement provided the agency seeks to effect the  minor's return home or alternative living arrangements agreeable to the  minor and the parent, guardian or custodian  as soon as practicable.   No minor shall be sheltered in a temporary living arrangement for more than 48 hours, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and court-designated holidays, when the agency has reported the minor as neglected or abused because the parent, guardian, or custodian refuses to permit the child to return home, provided that in all other instances the minor may be sheltered when the agency obtains the consent of the parent, guardian, or custodian or documents its unsuccessful efforts to obtain  the consent or authority of the parent, guardian, or custodian, including recording the date and the staff involved in all telephone calls, telegrams, letters, and personal contacts to obtain the consent or authority, in which instances the minor may be so sheltered for not more than 21 days. If the parent, guardian or custodian refuses to  permit the minor to return home, and no other living arrangement agreeable  to the parent, guardian, or custodian can be made, and the parent, guardian, or custodian has not made any other appropriate living arrangement for the child, the agency  may deem the minor to be neglected and report the neglect to the Department  of Children  and Family Services as provided in the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting  Act.  The  Child Protective Service Unit of the Department of Children and Family Services  shall  begin an investigation of the report within 24 hours after receiving the report  and shall  determine whether to                file a petition alleging that the minor is neglected or abused as  described in Section 2-3 of this Act. Subject to appropriation, the Department may take the minor into temporary protective custody at any time after receiving the report, provided that the Department shall take temporary protective custody within 48 hours of receiving the report if its investigation is not completed. If the Department of Children and Family Services determines that the minor is not a neglected minor because the minor is an immediate physical danger to himself, herself, or others living in the home, then the Department shall take immediate steps to either secure the minor's immediate admission to a mental health facility, arrange for law enforcement authorities to take temporary custody of the minor as a delinquent minor, or take other appropriate action to assume protective custody in order to safeguard the minor or others living in the home from immediate physical danger.(c) Any agency or association or employee thereof acting reasonably and  in good faith in the care of a minor being provided interim crisis  intervention services and shelter care shall be immune from any civil or  criminal liability resulting from such care.         (Source: P.A. 95-443, eff. 1-1-08.)