Illinois Administrative Code › Title 89 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Part 310 - DELIVERY OF YOUTH SERVICES FUNDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 310.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Adjudicated" means that the Juvenile Court has entered an
				  order declaring that a child is neglected, abused, dependent, a minor requiring
				  authoritative intervention, a delinquent minor or an addicted minor.
"Crisis intervention workers" in the context of this Part
				  means employees of youth service providers who provide crisis intervention and
				  family preservation and reunification services to youth and their families and
				  attempt to remediate adolescent misbehavior.
"Delinquent" means any minor who prior to his seventeenth
				  birthday violated or attempted to violate, regardless of where the act
				  occurred, any federal or state law or municipal ordinance.
"Department" as used in this Part means the Department of
				  Human Services.
"Homeless youth" means persons found within the State who are
				  under the age of 21, are not in a safe and stable living situtation and cannot
				  be reunited with their families.
"Limited custody" means that a law enforcement officer may,
				  without a warrant, take into custody for up to six hours a minor who the law
				  enforcement officer reasonably determines is:
absent from home without consent of the minor's parent,
				  guardian or custodian; or
beyond the control of his or her parent, guardian or
				  custodian in circumstances which constitute a substantial or immediate danger
				  to the minor's physical safety.
During this limited custody, the officer shall attempt to
				  return the child home. If these attempts are unsuccessful, the officer arranges
				  for crisis intervention services by contacting an appropriate youth service
				  agency or where appropriate, transporting the minor to a mental health or
				  development disabilities facility for screening for voluntary or involuntary
				  admission criteria under Chapter III, Article V of the Illinois Mental Health
				  and Developmental Disabilities Code [405 ILCS 5 /Ch. III, Art. V].
"Minor Requiring Authoritative Intervention" means any minor
				  under eighteen years of age who is:
absent at home without consent of parent, guardian or
				  custodian, or
beyond the control of his or her parent, guardian, or
				  custodian, in circumstances which constitute a substantial or immediate danger
				  to the minor's physical safety; after being taken into limited custody for the
				  period provided for in this Section and offered interim crisis intervention
				  services, where available, refuses to return home after the minor and his or
				  her parent, guardian or custodian cannot agree to an arrangement for an
				  alterative voluntary residential placement or to the continuation of such
				  placement. Any minor taken into limited custody for the reasons specified in
				  this Section may not be adjudicated a minor requiring authoritative
				  intervention until the following number of days have elapsed from his or her
				  having been taken into limited custody: 21 days for the first instance of being
				  taken into limited custody and 5 days for the second, third, or fourth
				  instances of being taken into limited custody. For the fifth or any subsequent
				  instance of being taken into limited custody for the reasons specified in this
				  Section, the minor may be adjudicated as requiring authoritative intervention
				  without any specified period of time expiring after his or her being taken into
				  limited custody, without the minor's being offered interim crisis intervention
				  services, and without the minor's being afforded an opportunity to agree to an
				  arrangement for an alternative voluntary residential placement. Notwithstanding
				  any other provision of this Section, for the first instance in which a minor is
				  taken into limited custody where one year has elasped from the last instance of
				  his having been taken into limited custody, the minor may not be adjudicated a
				  minor requiring authoritative intervention until 21 days have passed since
				  being taken into limited custody.
"Placement Prevention Services" are services delivered to the
				  youth and/or family to help the youth and his/her parents resolve and cope with
				  family problems and disruptive behaviors in order to preserve the youth in
				  his/her family home. Placement prevention services may include crisis
				  intervention services, family reunification counseling, individual counseling
				  and advocacy.
"Temporary Living Arrangement" means the placement of a youth
				  into a licensed foster home, shelter, with a relative or in a placement
				  mutually agreed upon by the parent(s) and child.
"Truant minor in need of supervision" as defined in Section
				  3-33 of the Juvenile Court Act [705 ILCS
				  405/3-33 ] means those reported by regional
				  superintendents of schools, in counties of less than 2,000,000 inhabitants, as
				  chronic truants to whom prevention, diagnostic, intervention and remedial
				  services, and alternative programs and other school and community resources
				  have been provided and have failed to result in the cessation of chronic
				  truancy, or have been offered and refused. Chronic truant has the definition
				  ascribed to it in Section 26-2a of the School Code [105 ILCS
				  5/26-2a ].
"Youth" in the context of this Part means a minor under
				  twenty-one years of age who is eligible as defined in Section
				  310.12
				  of this Part for the services delivered in this Part.
"Youth Services" include, but are not limited to, community
				  services, primary prevention, outreach and recreational opportunities,
				  including the use of indigenous community volunteers to provide programs
				  designed to correct conditions contributing to delinquency; diversion services,
				  including client advocacy, family counseling, employment and educational
				  assistance and service brokerage; and emergency services, including 24-hour
				  crisis intervention and shelter care; comprehensive independent living
				  services, including outreach, referral for public assistance or other benefits
				  to which homeless youth may be entitled, emergency shelter care homes,
				  transitional support programs in a residential setting, outward bound
				  experiences, and transitional independent living skills support, in a
				  non-residential facility, with special emphasis on youth employment and
				  training opportunities; initiatives to remove juveniles from adult jails and
				  status offenders from secure detention; and specialized diversion and community
				  corrections programs for juvenile delinquents.
"Youth Service Coordinators" are employees of the Department
				  of Human Services assigned to develop, monitor and coordinate the youth
				  services funded by the Department in each Region.