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Human Services Committee
Adopted in House Comm. on Feb 24, 2005
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 759
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 759 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended |
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| by adding Section 5.25 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 505/5.25 new) |
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| Sec. 5.25. Behavioral health services.
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| (a) Every child in the care of the Department of Children |
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| and Family Services under this Act shall receive the necessary |
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| behavioral health services including but not limited to: mental |
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| health services, trauma services, substance abuse services, |
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| and developmental disabilities services. The provision of |
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| these services may be provided in milieu including but not |
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| limited to: integrated assessment, treatment plans, individual |
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| and group therapy, specialized foster care, community based |
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| programming, licensed residential services, psychosocial |
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| rehabilitation, screening assessment and support services, |
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| hospitalization, and transitional planning and referral to the |
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| Department of Human Services for appropriate services when the |
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| child reaches adulthood.
Services shall be appropriate to meet |
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| the needs of the individual child and may be provided to the |
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| child at the site of the program, facility, or foster home or |
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| at an otherwise appropriate location. A program facility, or |
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| home, shall assist the Department staff in arranging for a |
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| child to receive behavioral health services from an outside |
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| provider when those services are necessary to meet the child's |
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| needs and the child wishes to receive them. |
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| (b) Not later than January 1, 2006, the Department shall |
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| file a proposed rule or a proposed amendment to an existing |
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| rule regarding the provision of behavioral health services to |
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| children who have serious behavioral health needs. The proposal |
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| shall address, but is not limited to, the implementation of the |
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| following: integrated assessment, treatment plans, individual |
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| and group therapy, specialized foster care, community based |
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| programming, licensed residential services, psychosocial |
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| rehabilitation, hospitalization, and transitional planning and |
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| referral to the Department of Human Services for appropriate |
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| services when the child reaches adulthood. |
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| (c) In preparation for the comprehensive implementation of |
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| the behavioral health system, the Department shall also prepare |
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| an assessment of behavioral health community services |
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| available to the Department in the State. The assessment shall |
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| evaluate the resources needed in each region to provide |
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| appropriate behavioral health services for all of the |
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| Department's foster children within the region's service area |
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| who are in need of behavioral health services. The assessments |
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| shall include, at a minimum, an analysis of the current |
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| availability and needs in each of the following areas: |
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| comprehensive integrated assessment, trauma services, mental |
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| health treatment, qualified mental health professionals, |
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| community providers, programs for psychosocial rehabilitation, |
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| and programs for substance abuse.
By January 1, 2007, the |
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| Department shall complete all required individual and regional |
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| assessments and shall submit a written report to the Governor |
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| and the General Assembly that describes the results of the |
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| assessment and contains a specific plan to address the |
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| identified needs for services.".
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