Section 503.160  Transfers to Treatment Unit Settings – Juvenile Division

a)         Any person committed to the Juvenile Division may be transferred to a treatment unit setting by the Director upon the recommendation of a Department mental health professional.  Committed persons determined by a Department physician, psychiatrist or clinical psychologist to be in need of placement in the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities shall be transferred in accordance with applicable statutory provisions.

b)         Procedures shall be established at Juvenile treatment unit facilities which shall:

1)         Provide for a review of continued placement by a mental health professional no less than every 90 days.

2)         Provide an opportunity to the committed person or, upon request, to the committed person's parent or guardian to present material which may be relevant to the committed person's placement or continued placement in a treatment unit setting.

(Source:  Amended at 11 Ill. Reg. 11502, effective July 1, 1987)