Section 316.30 Administrative Case Review System

Section 316

TITLE 89: SOCIAL SERVICES

CHAPTER III: DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES

SUBCHAPTER a: SERVICE DELIVERY

PART 316 ADMINISTRATIVE CASE REVIEWS AND COURT HEARINGS

SECTION 316.30 ADMINISTRATIVE CASE REVIEW SYSTEM

Section 316.30

Administrative Case Review System

a)         The Department has an administrative case review system for

all the youth in care in placement and their families. Administrative case

reviews are conducted for youth in care living in foster family homes, relative

homes, group homes, childcare institutions, youth emergency shelters, or

detention, correctional, mental, or physical health related facilities. In

addition, the Department may elect to conduct administrative case reviews on

other groups of children as fiscal and staffing resources permit.

b)         Case reviews are conducted in order to:

1)         assure that parents and the youth in care (if participating in

the planning) are involved in and collaborating with developing the case plan,

understand and discuss the plan, and know what is expected of them;

2)         review sibling placement by ensuring:

A)        siblings are being placed together whenever possible;

B)        when siblings are placed apart, efforts continue to locate a

placement that will accept all of the youth in care;

C)        contact and visitation between siblings is taking place as

required and occurring in accordance with the Visitation and Contact Plan;

D)        efforts are made to support contact between siblings in

substitute care with siblings who are not in substitute care (e.g., because of

adoption, legal guardianship, emancipation, or adulthood);

3)         review whether the Department's continuing intervention is

necessary;

4)         review whether services, including placement services, are

necessary, relevant, coordinated, and appropriate and address the health and

safety needs of the youth in care;

5)         identify services needed that are not being provided to the youth

in care, family or foster parents and

on, or adulthood);

3)         review whether the Department's continuing intervention is

necessary;

4)         review whether services, including placement services, are

necessary, relevant, coordinated, and appropriate and address the health and

safety needs of the youth in care;

5)         identify services needed that are not being provided to the youth

in care, family or foster parents and the reasons why they are not being

provided;

6)         review the disability status of a youth in care to determine

the need for and appropriateness of specialized services;

7)         review the appropriateness of the youth in care's educational

placement and the youth in care's educational progress and recommend changes to

the caseworker;

8)         review health information regarding the youth in care and

family;

9)         review any special physical, psychological, educational,

medical, emotional, or other needs of the youth in care or the family that are

relevant to a permanency or placement determination;

10)       review, for any youth in care age 16 or over, programs or services

that will enable the youth in care to prepare for independent living;

11)       review whether the Department, the contributing agencies, the

family, the substitute care provider, if any, and the youth in care are

complying with the case plan and, if they are not complying, whether changes in

the case plan or goals are needed;

12)       review whether there is progress in resolving the youth in

care's and family's issues, whether the progress is satisfactory, and whether

the youth in care can safely return home;

13)       review whether the projected month for achieving the permanency

goal should be changed;

14)       review the appropriateness of the permanency goal and recommend

changes to the goal (if appropriate);

15)       review and finalize the case plan for the next period,

including an analysis of:

A)        the appropriateness of the services contained in the case plan

and whether those services have been pro

hether the projected month for achieving the permanency

goal should be changed;

14)       review the appropriateness of the permanency goal and recommend

changes to the goal (if appropriate);

15)       review and finalize the case plan for the next period,

including an analysis of:

A)        the appropriateness of the services contained in the case plan

and whether those services have been provided and, if not, why;

B)        whether reasonable efforts by the Department, and reasonable

progress by the family, have been made to achieve the goal;

C)        whether the plan and goal have been achieved;

16)       refer the case for a child and family team meeting when one has

not been conducted. (See 89 Ill. Adm. Code 315.120 (Family Meetings)); and

17)       report findings and make recommendations.

c)         The Department shall provide training for all Administrative

Case Reviewers, supervisors, and managers regarding the importance of

maintaining sibling relationships and the youth in care's sense of attachment

to the siblings, the importance of maintaining sibling relationships over the youth

in care's lifespan, and the impact on the youth in care if those relationships

are severed.