99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB0653
 
Introduced 1/28/2015, by Sen. Dan Kotowski
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
20 ILCS 505/21.2 new

     Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that subject to appropriation, the Department of Children and Family Services shall establish a child protection training academy for child protective investigators and supervisors employed by the Department or its contractors, and for other State and county employees, judges, court personnel, service providers, mental health professionals, law enforcement, foster parents, and other appropriate individuals and entities that are involved in providing child welfare services and that work directly with abused or neglected children. Provides that the training efforts of the academy shall include, but shall not be limited to, establishing: (i)  training curricula on recognizing and responding to cases of child abuse or neglect; (ii) laboratory training facilities that include mock houses, mock medical facilities, mock courtrooms, and mock forensic interview rooms that allow for simulated, interactive, and intensive training; and (iii) minimum standards of competence that a person shall be required to demonstrate prior to receiving certification from the academy. Provides that by January 1, 2016, the Department shall adopt rules for the administration of the child protection training academy that not only establish statewide competence, assessment, and training standards for persons providing child welfare services, but that also ensure that persons who provide child welfare services have the knowledge, skills, professionalism, and abilities to make decisions that keep children safe and secure. Effective immediately.
  


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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended  
5by adding Section 21.2 as follows:
 
6    (20 ILCS 505/21.2 new)
7    Sec. 21.2. Child protection training academy.
8    Subject to appropriation, the Department shall establish a 
9child protection training academy for child protective 
10investigators and supervisors employed by the Department or its 
11contractors, and for other State and county employees, judges, 
12court personnel, service providers, mental health 
13professionals, law enforcement, foster parents, and other 
14appropriate individuals and entities that are involved in 
15providing child welfare services and that work directly with 
16abused or neglected children.
17    The training efforts of the child protection training 
18academy shall include, but shall  not be limited to, 
19establishing:
20        (1) training curricula on recognizing and responding 
21    to cases of child abuse or neglect;
22        (2) laboratory training facilities that include mock 
23    houses, mock medical facilities, mock courtrooms, and mock 
 
 
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1    forensic interview rooms that allow for simulated, 
2    interactive, and intensive training; and
3        (3) minimum standards of competence that a person shall 
4    be required to demonstrate prior to receiving 
5    certification from the academy.
6    By January 1, 2016, the Department shall adopt rules for 
7the administration of the child protection training academy 
8that not only establish statewide competence, assessment, and 
9training standards for persons providing child welfare 
10services, but that also ensure that persons who provide child 
11welfare services have the knowledge, skills, professionalism, 
12and abilities to make decisions that keep children safe and 
13secure.
 
 
14    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect 
15immediately.