Illinois Administrative Code › Title 89 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Part 328 - INTERSTATE PLACEMENT OF CHILDREN › Subpart A - INTERSTATE COMPACT ON PLACEMENT OF CHILDREN › Section 328.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Children for Whom the Department has Legal Responsibility"
				  or "Department Wards", as used in this Part, means children for whom the
				  Department of Children and Family Services has temporary protective custody,
				  custody or guardianship via court order, or children whose parents have signed
				  an adoptive surrender or voluntary placement agreement with the
				  Department.
"Facility" means a person, group of persons, or corporation
				  caring for children licensed under applicable laws. Facility includes, but is
				  not limited to, child care institution, related or non-related foster family
				  home or group home.
"Fictive kin" means any individual, unrelated by
				  birth or marriage, who:
is shown to have significant and close personal or
				  emotional ties with the child or the child's family prior to the child's
				  placement with the individual; or
is the current foster parent of a child in the
				  custody or guardianship of the Department pursuant to the Child and Family
				  Services Act and the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, if the child has been placed
				  in the home for at least one year and has established a significant and
				  family-like relationship with the foster parent, and the foster parent has been
				  identified by the Department as the child's permanent connection.
[
				  20 ILCS
				  505/7(b) ]
"Godparent" is a person who sponsors a child at baptism or
				  one in whom the parents have entrusted a special duty that includes assisting
				  in raising the child if the parent cannot raise the child. If the person is
				  considered to be the child's godparent, in order for placement to occur, the
				  same placement selection criteria as contained in 89 Ill. Adm. Code
				  301.60
				  (Placement Selection Criteria) must be met. If the godparent is not a licensed
				  foster parent, all the conditions currently in effect for placement with
				  relatives in 89 Ill. Adm. Code
				  301.80
				  (Relative Home Placement) must be met.
"Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children" is a law,
				  enacted by all 50 states and the territories of Guam and the Virgin Islands,
				  for the purpose of establishing uniform procedures for handling the interstate
				  placement of children in foster homes, adoptive homes, or other child care
				  facilities.
"Permanent connection" means a family-like relationship,
				  consistent with a child's best interests, health, safety and well-being, that
				  provides:
safe, stable and committed parenting;
unconditional love and lifelong support; and
a permanent legal status between child and family.
For a child for whom the Department is legally responsible, a
				  permanent connection may be the child's parents or another caregiver in the
				  child's home of origin. When the child cannot be safely returned home, a
				  permanent connection may be the current or former foster parent or relative
				  caregiver, an individual identified as an adoptive or legal guardianship
				  placement resource, or another individual from among the child's or family's
				  lifelong connections with whom a child has developed a familial
				  relationship.
"Placement", as used in this Part, means the arrangement for
				  the continuing care of a child in a foster or adoptive family home, group home,
				  child care institution, or other child care facility as defined by the Child
				  Care Act of 1969 [ 225 ILCS 10 ]. Placements do not include care of a child in
				  a medical facility, a mental health facility, a correctional facility or an
				  educational facility.
"Relative",
for purposes of placement of
				  children for whom the Department is legally responsible,
means any
				  person, 21 years of age or over, other than the parent, who:
is currently related to the child in any of the
				  following ways by blood or adoption: grandparent, sibling, great-grandparent,
				  uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, first cousin,
first cousin once removed
				  (children of one's first cousin to oneself),
second
				  cousin
(children of first cousins are second cousins to each other),
godparent
(as defined in this Section),
great-uncle,
				  or great-aunt;
is the spouse
, or party to a civil union,
of such a relative;
is the child's step-father, step-mother,
				  step-grandfather, step-grandmother or adult step-brother or step-sister;
				  or
is the partner, or adult child of a partner, in a civil union
				  with the child's mother or father; or
is a fictive kin as defined in this Section.
"Relative" also includes a person related in any of
				  the foregoing ways to a sibling of a child, even though the person is not
				  related to the child, when the child and its sibling are placed together with
				  that person. For children who have been in the guardianship of the Department,
				  have been adopted, and are subsequently returned to the temporary custody or
				  guardianship of the Department, a "relative" may also include any person who
				  would have qualified as a relative under this definition prior to the adoption,
				  but only if the Department determines that it would be in the best interests of
				  the child to consider this person a relative.
[
				  20 ILCS
				  505/7(b) ]