UNIT III - MINORS REQUIRING AUTHORITATIVE INTERVENTION ARTICLE III - 705 ILCS 405/3)
C. Interim Crisis Intervention Services (705 ILCS 405/3-5): When law enforcement has a minor in limited custody who has been absent from home without consent or is beyond the control of a parent/guardian, that minor may be provided crisis intervention services by an agency or association recognized by this Act.
The agency must immediately investigate the circumstances of the minor and the facts surrounding the minor being taken into custody. These must then be explained to the minor. That agency or association is authorized to permit a minor to be sheltered in a temporary living arrangement.
If a parent or guardian refuses to permit the minor to return home and no other living arrangement is agreeable to the minor, the agency shall file a petition alleging that the minor is neglected or abused as defined under Article II, Section 2-3 of this Act. No minor can be sheltered in a temporary living arrangement for more than 48 hours without parental consent as provided in the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act.
The Child Protective Service Unit of the Department of Children and Family Services shall begin an investigation of the report within 24 hours after receiving the report and shall determine whether to file a petition alleging that the minor is neglected or abused as described in Section 2-3 of this Act. Subject to appropriation, the Department may take the minor into temporary protective custody at any time after receiving the report, provided that the Department shall take temporary protective custody within 48 hours of receiving the report if its investigation is not completed.
If the Department of Children and Family Services determines that the minor is not a neglected minor because the minor is an immediate physical danger to himself, herself, or others living in the home, then the Department shall take immediate steps to either secure the minor’s immediate admission to a mental health facility, arrange for law enforcement authorities to take temporary custody of the minor as a delinquent minor or take other appropriate action to assume protective custody in order to safeguard the minor or others living in the home from immediate physical danger.
Any agency or association or employee thereof acting reasonably and in good faith in the care of a minor being provided interim crisis intervention services and shelter care shall be immune from any civil or criminal liability resulting from such care.
Interim crisis intervention services are available throughout the state of Illinois from over 1500 different agencies providing such assistance. Juvenile Officers are strongly encouraged to conduct research regarding agencies which serve the counties, townships, or cities in their particular jurisdictions.
