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1     AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
5 Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing Section
6 11.2 as follows:
 
7     (20 ILCS 1705/11.2)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-11.2)
8     Sec. 11.2. To maintain and operate the Bureau for Mentally
9 Ill Children and Adolescents, the Bureau for Mentally Ill and
10 Substance Abusing Children and Adolescents, and the Bureau for
11 Developmentally Disabled Children and Adolescents. Each Bureau
12 shall:
13     (a) develop the Department policies necessary to assure an
14 integrated and comprehensive family and community based system
15 of care a coherent services system for, and develop and
16 coordinate planning on a Statewide basis for delivery of
17 services to, children or adolescents with mental illness,
18 children or adolescents with mental illness and substance
19 abuse, and children and adolescents with a developmental
20 disability, including:
21         (1) assessment of the need for various types of
22     programs and services, such as prevention, early
23     intervention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation,
24     and family preservation; and
25         (2) design of a family and community based system of
26     care to integrate additional services, including service
27     alternatives;
28     (b) provide consultation and technical assistance to the
29 appropriate Department subdivisions and coordinate service
30 planning of a family and community based system of care and
31 development efforts for children and adolescents with a
32 developmental disability, and children or adolescents with

 

 

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1 mental illness, and children or adolescents with mental illness
2 and substance abuse;
3     (c) establish and maintain processes for working
4 collaboratively develop cooperative programs with community
5 service providers and other State agencies which serve
6 children;
7     (d) assist families in the placement of children with
8 mental illness, as specified in Section 7.1; and
9     (e) develop minimum standards for the operation of both
10 State-provided and contracted family and community-based
11 systems of care, with input from stakeholders, services for
12 promulgation as rules.
13 (Source: P.A. 88-380.)
 
14     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
15 2005.