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(325 ILCS 15/4) (from Ch. 23, par. 2084)
Sec. 4.
The Department of Children and Family Services shall support
through a grant program a child sexual abuse crisis intervention
demonstration center in Cook County and in other parts of the State as
funding permits. The functions and goals of such crisis intervention centers shall be:
(a) To respond within 24 hours or as soon thereafter as possible to a
report of child sexual abuse or exploitation by professional contact with
the child and the child's family, and with those persons in the courts and police
department involved in the case.
(b) The agents of such crisis intervention centers shall:
(1) refer the child, and the child's family if |
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(2) accompany the victim through all stages of police
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(3) provide advice to involved police, assistant
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| district attorneys, and judges in the proper handling of a child subjected to sexual abuse and exploitation whenever possible. This advice will be made with consideration to the following priorities:
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(i) the welfare of the child; and
(ii) improved chances for a successful
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(4) make every effort to develop an approach which
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(c) The crisis intervention demonstration centers shall develop and
implement written procedures for case planning and case monitoring in
relation to the processes of treatment and of investigation and prosecution.
(d) Crisis intervention agents should demonstrate evidence of professional
knowledge of child development and a record of positive interaction with
the police and courts.
(e) The centers shall develop training materials for city and county and
State personnel through the State to enable emulation and adaptation of
the program by other communities and to develop awareness of the problems
faced by a child sexual abuse victim as the victim confronts the criminal justice system.
(f) The centers shall report to the director improvements in the criminal
justice system and the interrelation of the criminal justice system
and child support systems that would serve to meet the goals of this Act.
(g) Reports of child sexual abuse referred for investigation to a local
law enforcement agency in Cook County by the State Central Registry of the
Department of Children and Family Services must also be referred to the
crisis intervention center. Reports of child sexual abuse made directly
to a local law enforcement agency in Cook County may be referred by that
agency to the crisis intervention center. All centers shall make local law
enforcement agencies aware of their purposes and encourage their utilization.
(Source: P.A. 103-22, eff. 8-8-23.)
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