Illinois Administrative Code › Title 89 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Part 334 - ADMINISTRATION AND FUNDING OF COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES TO YOUTH › Section 334.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Community-Based Youth Services" means services to youth funded
				by the Department through contracts or grants that are delivered by
				community-based youth service agencies as described in 89 Ill. Adm. Code 310,
				Delivery of Youth Services Funded by the Department of Human Services.
"Community-Based Youth Services Agency" means an agency which
				provides any or all of the services listed in 89 Ill. Adm. Code 310 to respond
				to the needs of youth in an established service area.
"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" is responsible for
				developing a state program for adolescent services which will assure that youth
				who come into contact or may come into contact with the child welfare and
				juvenile justice systems will have access to needed prevention, diversion or
				treatment resources.
"Funding Formula" means the formula used to allocate funds
				appropriated for comprehensive community-based services to youth.
"Governor's Youth Service Initiative (GYSI)" is a multi-state
				agency program to develop and implement treatment plans for multi-problem youth
				referred by the Juvenile Court. Participating agencies are the Department of
				Children and Family Services, the Illinois Board of Education, the Department
				of Human Services and the Department of Corrections.
"In kind match" as used in Section
				334.14(b)(3)
				 means volunteer time, commodities, supplies,
				equipment, rents or leases calculated at fair market value.
"Local Board" means a not-for-profit corporation recognized by
				the Department and established to develop, manage, provide for and coordinate
				comprehensive and integrated community-based youth services. None of the
				members of a local board may sit on the governing boards of directors or be
				employed at agencies with whom the local board may be contracting or
				subcontracting. A local board has responsibility for ensuring compliance with
				provisions of all contracts with the Department.
"Local Financial Commitment" means the 10% minimum local public
				or private financial or in-kind commitment allocated to supplement the local
				board's or local service system's formula funds.
"Local Needs Assessment" means a process undertaken at the
				local level which yields insight into why youth are or may be coming into
				contact with the child welfare or juvenile justice system. This process
				includes an analysis and review of juvenile justice, child welfare and
				demographic data, and the results of information gathered from community
				leaders and youth.
"Local Service System" means a not-for-profit lead agency
				corporation or a not-for-profit corporation of a network of youth service
				providers which is recognized by the Department and established to develop,
				administer, provide for and coordinate comprehensive and integrated
				community-based youth services. The local service system may be governed by the
				board of directors of the lead agency or a corporate board of directors
				comprised of members of the boards of the participating agencies. A local
				service system has responsibility for ensuring compliance with provisions of
				all contracts with the Department.
"Minor Requiring Authoritative Intervention (MRAI)" means any
				minor under 18 years of age (1) who is:
(a) absent from home without consent of
			 parent, guardian or custodian, or (b) 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; and (2) who, 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 alternative voluntary residential placement or to the
			 continuation of such placements. 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
			 elapsed 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.
"New Program Development and Innovation" means the development
				of new programs where none exist, the expansion of existing programs, the
				demonstration of new program models to test their effectiveness, the provision
				of support services and the provision of the minimum level of services as
				specified in Department contracts.
"Placement Prevention Services" are services delivered to the
				youth and 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. Advocacy is defined in 89 Ill. Adm. Code Section
				310.13.
"Secretary" means the Secretary of the Department of Human
				Services or his or her designee.
"Service areas" means the areas established and recognized by
				the Department within which local boards or local service systems assure
				provision of services.
"Youth Service Coordinators" are employees of the Division of
				Youth and Community Services assigned to develop, monitor and coordinate the
				youth services funded by the Department in each region.