Full Text of HR0998 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate Illinois Department of | 4 | | Children and Family Services (DCFS) Inspector General Denise | 5 | | Kane, Ph.D. on
the occasion of her departure from government | 6 | | service on January 31, 2018 after 25 years of service; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane was the State's first DCFS inspector | 8 | | general appointee under former
Governor Jim Edgar in 1993; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane is the State's longest-serving inspector | 10 | | general and has dedicated her life
to the children, youth and | 11 | | families of Illinois; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane played an instrumental role in the | 13 | | landmark federal case, Norman v.
Suter, that resulted in the | 14 | | Norman Consent Decree that prohibits children from being | 15 | | removed
from their homes due to poverty while serving as | 16 | | Director of Social Services with the Public
Guardian's office; | 17 | | and | 18 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane was the model of a true public servant in | 19 | | her capacities as a social
worker, parent, and foster parent; | 20 | | and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, During her tenure as inspector general, Dr. Kane | 2 | | championed many practices and
policies that have reformed DCFS | 3 | | in Illinois and increased safety, permanency, and well-being
| 4 | | for children, youth, and families involved in the child welfare | 5 | | system; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane encouraged DCFS to use Parenting | 7 | | Assessment Teams to ensure
that competent parents who suffered | 8 | | from mental illness would not be wrongly removed from
their | 9 | | children; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane advocated for the criminal background | 11 | | checks of caretakers and worked
with the Illinois State Police | 12 | | to ensure that DCFS would be permitted to access relevant | 13 | | criminal
history; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane was dedicated to never losing focus on | 15 | | the individual child through
initiatives such as requiring | 16 | | child protection investigators to contact child centered | 17 | | collaterals; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane developed the Intensive Intact Family | 19 | | Recovery Program, which
recognizes the special needs of working | 20 | | with families struggling with substance use disorders; and | 21 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane successfully challenged the DCFS |
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| 1 | | practice of labeling children as young as
two years old as | 2 | | 'sexual predators'; and | 3 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane developed the first Code of Ethics for | 4 | | Child Welfare Professionals, which
has become a national model | 5 | | and has been adopted in other states; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane recognized the critical importance of | 7 | | including extended family in
developing solutions for | 8 | | struggling parents and ensured that investigators fully | 9 | | debriefed case
information with intact service workers; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Kane ensured that DCFS workers would not place | 11 | | children in homes without
knowing that the homes were being | 12 | | investigated for abuse or neglect; her office developed the
| 13 | | Home Safety Checklist to help families identify easily | 14 | | correctable safety risks in the home; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, In addition to her unwavering commitment to child | 16 | | welfare practice issues, Dr. Kane
worked tirelessly to identify | 17 | | fraud and waste of taxpayer funds, whether it was by | 18 | | unscrupulous
providers, or within DCFS itself; under her | 19 | | leadership, the Office of the Inspector General for
DCFS | 20 | | uncovered major frauds cases that were successfully criminally | 21 | | prosecuted; therefore, be it
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 2 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, | 3 | | along with her family, friends,
and co-workers, congratulate | 4 | | Dr. Denise Kane on the occasion of her retirement, and thank | 5 | | her
for her years of dedicated public service to youth in care | 6 | | and to the State of Illinois; and be it further
| 7 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 8 | | presented to Dr. Kane as an expression
of our utmost esteem and | 9 | | respect.
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