Illinois Administrative Code › Title 89 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Part 316 - ADMINISTRATIVE CASE REVIEWS AND COURT HEARINGS › Section 316.20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Administrative case review" means a review of permanency
				planning open to the participation of the parents of the child, conducted by a
				person who is not responsible for the case management of, or the delivery of
				services to, either the child or the parents who are the subjects of the
				review. (See
				42
				USC 675(6) ). The
				administrative case review is also open to the participation of other
				professionals involved in assessing or treating the child, any legal
				representative of the parent or child, and the foster parents as specified in
				this Part.
"Administrative case reviewer" means a trained professional who
				is not responsible for the case management of, or delivery of services to,
				either the child or the parents who are the subjects of the review.
"Children for whom the Department is legally responsible" means
				children for whom the Department 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.
"Contact between siblings" means contact between or among
				siblings who are residing apart from one another and may include, but is not
				limited to: telephone calls; video conferencing; in person visitation;
				sending/receiving cards, letters, emails, text messages, gifts, etc.; sharing
				photographs or information; use of any approved social media (e.g., Facebook);
				and any other agreed upon forms of communication.
"Family" means one or more adults and children, related by
				blood, marriage, civil union, or adoption and residing in the same
				household.
"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.
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				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.
"Parents" means the child's legal parents whose rights have not
				been terminated. Biological fathers are considered legal parents when paternity
				has been established as required by the definition in 89 Ill. Adm. Code 315
				(Permanency Planning).
"Permanency goal" means the desired outcome of intervention and
				service that is determined to be consistent with the health, safety, well-being
				and best interests of the child. A permanent legal status is usually a
				component of the permanency goal.
"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.
"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; or
is the spouse
, or party to a civil union,
of such a relative; or
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.
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				20 ILCS
				505/7(b) ]
"Service plan" means a written plan on a form prescribed by the
				Department that guides all participants in the plan toward the permanency goals
				for the children.
"Siblings" means children who have at least one parent in
				common. Children continue to be considered siblings after parental rights are
				terminated, if parental rights were terminated while a petition under Article
				II of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 was pending. Children continue to be
				considered siblings after one or more of the children are adopted or placed in
				private guardianship, if they were in the custody or guardianship of the
				Department pursuant to Article II of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 [ 705 ILCS
				405 ] immediately prior to the adoption or guardianship. Step-siblings may be
				considered "siblings" when the children enter into substitute care together,
				have a positive relationship and share at least one parent in common.
"Substitute care" means the care of children who require
				placement away from their families. Substitute care includes foster family
				care, care provided in a relative home placement as defined in 89 Ill. Adm.
				Code
				301.80
				(Relative Home Placement), care provided in a group home, care provided in a
				maternity center or a child care, mental health or other institution, and care
				provided in an independent living arrangement.
"Visitation" means face-to-face contact:
between parents and their children who are in substitute
				care;
between siblings in substitute care who are placed apart from
				one another; or
between siblings in substitute care with siblings who are not
				in substitute care (e.g., emancipated, case closed due to independence,
				adopted, placed in private guardianship, living in home of parent,
				etc.).