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    AN ACT concerning State government.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental 
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Disabilities Administrative Act is amended  by changing Section 
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11.2 as follows:
 



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    (20 ILCS 1705/11.2)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-11.2)



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    Sec. 11.2. To maintain and operate the Bureau for Mentally 
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Ill
Children and Adolescents, the Bureau for Mentally Ill and 
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Substance Abusing Children and Adolescents, and the Bureau for 
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Developmentally Disabled
Children and Adolescents.  Each Bureau 
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shall:

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    (a) develop the Department policies necessary to assure an 
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integrated and comprehensive family and community based system 
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of care
a coherent
services system for, and develop and 
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coordinate planning on a Statewide
basis for delivery of 
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services to, children or adolescents with mental
illness, 
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children or adolescents with mental illness and substance 
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abuse, and children and adolescents with a developmental 
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disability,
including:


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        (1) assessment of the need for various types of 
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    programs and services, such as
prevention, early 
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    intervention, diagnosis, treatment,
and rehabilitation, 
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    and family preservation; and


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        (2) design of a family and community based system of 
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    care to integrate additional services, including service

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    alternatives;

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    (b) provide consultation and technical assistance to the 
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appropriate
Department subdivisions and coordinate service 
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planning of a family and community based system of care and 
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development
efforts for children and adolescents with a 
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developmental disability,
and
children or adolescents with 
 


 






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mental illness, and children or adolescents with mental illness 
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and substance abuse;

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    (c) establish and maintain processes for working 
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collaboratively
develop cooperative programs with community 
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service providers and
other State agencies which serve 
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children;

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    (d) assist families in the placement of children with 
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mental illness, as
specified in Section 7.1; and

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    (e) develop minimum standards for the operation of both 
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State-provided
and contracted family and community-based 
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systems of care, with input from stakeholders,
services for 
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promulgation as rules.

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(Source: P.A. 88-380.)

 

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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 
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2005.