Illinois Administrative Code › Title 89 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Part 315 - PERMANENCY PLANNING › Subpart C - SELECTING THE PERMANENCY GOAL › Section 315.245 - Concurrent Planning

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a)
				Description
Concurrent planning is a process whereby the Department or
				  purchase of service agency will make reasonable efforts to return the child
				  home within nine months after the child's placement in substitute care, while
				  at the same time making it clear to the child's family that an alternative
				  permanency plan for the child is being developed that will take effect if the
				  parents do not make sufficient progress to enable the return home of their
				  children within nine months.
b) Criteria for Selection of Cases
Concurrent planning must be utilized for a child who has been
				  removed from a family that meets the criteria described below unless sufficient
				  evidence exists to seek expedited termination of parental rights. The criteria
				  are:
1) the parent has another child
				for whom parental rights were involuntarily terminated and there have been no
				significant changes in conditions or behaviors in the interim;
2) a finding that at birth the child's blood
				or urine contained any amount of a controlled substance as defined in Section
				102(f) of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, or a metabolite of a
				controlled substance, with the exception of controlled substances or
				metabolites of such substances the presence of which in the newborn infant was
				the result of medical treatment administered to the mother or the newborn
				infant, and that the biological mother of this child is the biological mother
				of at least one other child who was adjudicated a neglected minor under Section
				2-3(c) of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, after which the biological mother had
				the opportunity to participate in a drug counseling, treatment, and
				rehabilitation program;
3) the
				family has a history, either through their own efforts or with clinical
				treatment or specialized social services, of repeated, failed attempts to
				correct conditions that resulted in child maltreatment;
4) there has been a single severe incident of
				abuse and/or neglect;
5) there has
				been abuse/neglect toward a child who is particularly vulnerable given the
				child's age, developmental stage and/or disability;
6) a child requires placement and has a
				sibling in out-of-home care because of the current caregiver's abuse or
				neglect;
7) the parent has a
				diagnosed mental illness that renders the parent unable to provide or protect
				the child and that, upon assessment, indicates:
A) a history of treatment without
				response;
B) the prognosis that the
				condition will respond too slowly to meet the child's needs according to the
				child's age and development; or
C)
				the parent in treatment continually disregards medication or other treatment
				interventions;
8) the
				parent has a developmental disability that, upon assessment, indicates that the
				parent may be unable to provide for, protect or nurture the child and the
				family has no other relatives or social supports able or willing to assist in
				parenting.