Human Services Committee
Adopted in House Comm. on Feb 24, 2005
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 759
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 759 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended | ||||||
| 5 | by adding Section 5.25 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (20 ILCS 505/5.25 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 5.25. Behavioral health services.
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| 8 | (a) Every child in the care of the Department of Children | ||||||
| 9 | and Family Services under this Act shall receive the necessary | ||||||
| 10 | behavioral health services including but not limited to: mental | ||||||
| 11 | health services, trauma services, substance abuse services, | ||||||
| 12 | and developmental disabilities services. The provision of | ||||||
| 13 | these services may be provided in milieu including but not | ||||||
| 14 | limited to: integrated assessment, treatment plans, individual | ||||||
| 15 | and group therapy, specialized foster care, community based | ||||||
| 16 | programming, licensed residential services, psychosocial | ||||||
| 17 | rehabilitation, screening assessment and support services, | ||||||
| 18 | hospitalization, and transitional planning and referral to the | ||||||
| 19 | Department of Human Services for appropriate services when the | ||||||
| 20 | child reaches adulthood.
Services shall be appropriate to meet | ||||||
| 21 | the needs of the individual child and may be provided to the | ||||||
| 22 | child at the site of the program, facility, or foster home or | ||||||
| 23 | at an otherwise appropriate location. A program facility, or | ||||||
| 24 | home, shall assist the Department staff in arranging for a | ||||||
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| 1 | child to receive behavioral health services from an outside | ||||||
| 2 | provider when those services are necessary to meet the child's | ||||||
| 3 | needs and the child wishes to receive them. | ||||||
| 4 | (b) Not later than January 1, 2006, the Department shall | ||||||
| 5 | file a proposed rule or a proposed amendment to an existing | ||||||
| 6 | rule regarding the provision of behavioral health services to | ||||||
| 7 | children who have serious behavioral health needs. The proposal | ||||||
| 8 | shall address, but is not limited to, the implementation of the | ||||||
| 9 | following: integrated assessment, treatment plans, individual | ||||||
| 10 | and group therapy, specialized foster care, community based | ||||||
| 11 | programming, licensed residential services, psychosocial | ||||||
| 12 | rehabilitation, hospitalization, and transitional planning and | ||||||
| 13 | referral to the Department of Human Services for appropriate | ||||||
| 14 | services when the child reaches adulthood. | ||||||
| 15 | (c) In preparation for the comprehensive implementation of | ||||||
| 16 | the behavioral health system, the Department shall also prepare | ||||||
| 17 | an assessment of behavioral health community services | ||||||
| 18 | available to the Department in the State. The assessment shall | ||||||
| 19 | evaluate the resources needed in each region to provide | ||||||
| 20 | appropriate behavioral health services for all of the | ||||||
| 21 | Department's foster children within the region's service area | ||||||
| 22 | who are in need of behavioral health services. The assessments | ||||||
| 23 | shall include, at a minimum, an analysis of the current | ||||||
| 24 | availability and needs in each of the following areas: | ||||||
| 25 | comprehensive integrated assessment, trauma services, mental | ||||||
| 26 | health treatment, qualified mental health professionals, | ||||||
| 27 | community providers, programs for psychosocial rehabilitation, | ||||||
| 28 | and programs for substance abuse.
By January 1, 2007, the | ||||||
| 29 | Department shall complete all required individual and regional | ||||||
| 30 | assessments and shall submit a written report to the Governor | ||||||
| 31 | and the General Assembly that describes the results of the | ||||||
| 32 | assessment and contains a specific plan to address the | ||||||
| 33 | identified needs for services.".
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