(730 ILCS 200/21) Sec. 21. Co-facilitator training. The civics education program in the Department of Juvenile Justice shall be taught using 2 co-facilitators. One of the co-facilitators shall be a member of an established nonpartisan civic organization and the other co-facilitator shall be a committed person at the Department of Juvenile Justice who is specifically trained in voting rights education and who has been trained by an established nonpartisan civic organization. The organization providing training may be assisted by area political science or civics educators at colleges, universities, and high schools and by nonpartisan organizations providing re-entry services. The nonpartisan civic organizations shall provide adequate training to both co-facilitators on the civics and voting rights curriculum.
(Source: P.A. 102-374, eff. 1-1-22.) |