Illinois Administrative Code › Title 89 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Part 313 - COMMUNITY SERVICES › Section 313.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Advocacy Services" means para-professional assistance to youth
				and families in coping with or resolving personal, family, or social
				institutional problems.
"Area Project" means a body whose purpose is to develop,
				manage, provide and coordinate a community services program.
"Community Committee" means an organized group of indigenous
				community leaders and concerned citizens whose purpose is to implement and
				operate a community services program in a designated catchment area.
"Community Development/Redevelopment" means activities that
				strengthen the social, cultural and environmental conditions in the community
				and provide support to residents of a designated geographical area.
"Community Needs Assessment" is a process undertaken by an Area
				Project on the local level to yield insight into community conditions that
				affect the quality of life of its residents and place its youth at risk.
"Community Service Area (CSA)" means the catchment area in
				which the Community Committee operates a community services program.
"Community Services Plan" is a plan, developed by an Area
				Project, to address identified needs through community organizing activities,
				advocacy on behalf of community residents and, when necessary, direct
				services.
"Community Services Program" means a program aimed at changing
				social, cultural and environmental conditions which prevent youth and families
				from maximizing their potential (i.e., weaken the community) and place youth in
				a condition which increases their tendency to become involved in the juvenile
				justice or child welfare systems (i.e., place the community's youth at
				risk).
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Human
				Services.
"Direct Financial Interest" means any type of monetary gain
				from a Department-funded program such as that acquired by salaried staff of
				Department-funded programs and their immediate relatives or Department
				staff.
"Division of Youth and Community Services (DYCS)" means the
				division of the Department mandated to plan, develop and coordinate a statewide
				system of more comprehensive and integrated community-based youth services
				systems in Illinois.
"Indigenous Leaders" are leaders who live in the area served by
				the Community Committee.
"Monitoring" means the process by which the Department
				determines whether an expected or anticipated event does occur, through
				tracking, compliance and accountability checks and documentation of whether
				programs conform with previously defined program goals and standards.
"Network Activities" means the coordination of services and
				sharing of information among key agencies and individuals in a
				community.
"Regional Youth Planning Committee (RYPC)" means a committee
				within each region whose members are appointed by the Secretary of the
				Department of Human Services and designated to advise the Department in regard
				to regional youth service needs and problems, to prepare an annual regional
				youth services plan, and to review and comment upon regional youth service
				grant applications.
"Regional Youth Service Coordinators" are employees of the
				Department's Division of Youth and Community Services assigned to coordinate,
				develop and provide technical assistance to the youth services funded by the
				Department in each region.
"Service Brokerage Agreement" means a written, non-financial
				agreement between two agencies in which they agree to perform agreed upon tasks
				in order to achieve a mutually beneficial goal.
"Youth" in the context of this Part means a person under 21
				years of age who is eligible as defined in Section
				313.7
				of this Part for the services delivered in this Part.