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Public Act 101-0166
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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 Children and Family Services Act is amended |
by adding Sections 39.3 and 42 as follows:
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(20 ILCS 505/39.3) |
Sec. 39.3. Suggestion boxes. The Department must place in |
each residential treatment center, group home, shelter, and |
transitional living arrangement that accepts youth in care for |
placement by the Department a locked suggestion box into which |
residents may place comments and concerns to be addressed by |
the Department. Only employees of the Department shall have |
access to the contents of the locked suggestion boxes. An |
employee of the Department must check the locked suggestion |
boxes at least once per week. The Department shall submit a |
report to the General Assembly each year outlining the issues |
and concerns submitted to the locked suggestion box and the |
solution to each issue and concern.
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(Source: P.A. 99-342, eff. 8-11-15; 100-159, eff. 8-18-17.)
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(20 ILCS 505/42 new) |
Sec. 42. Foster care survey. The Department, in |
coordination with the Foster Care
Alumni of America Illinois |
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Chapter, the School of Social Work at the University of |
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Department's Statewide |
Youth Advisory Board, shall develop and process a standardized |
survey to
gather feedback from children who are aging out of |
foster care and from children who have transitioned out of the
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foster care system. The survey shall include requests for |
information regarding the children's
experience with and |
opinion of State foster care services, the children's |
recommendations for improvement
of such services, the amount of |
time the children spent in the foster care system, and any |
other
information deemed relevant by the Department. After the |
survey is created
the Department shall circulate the survey to |
all youth participating in transitional living programs, |
independent living programs, or Youth in College and to all |
youth receiving scholarships or tuition waivers under the DCFS |
Scholarship
Program. The Department shall conduct the survey |
every 5 years. At the completion of each survey, the |
Department, in coordination with the Foster Care Alumni of |
America Illinois Chapter, the School of Social Work at the |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the |
Department's Statewide Youth Advisory Board, shall submit a |
report with a detailed review of the survey results to the |
Governor and the General Assembly. The first report shall be |
submitted no later than December 1, 2021 and every 5 years |
thereafter.
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