Section 130.20  Goal of Services

The Department shall determine the services it intends to provide with the Title XX Social Services Block Grant Funds. Services must be directed at one or more of the following national goals:

a)         achieving or maintaining economic self-support to prevent, reduce or eliminate dependency;

b)         achieving or maintaining self-sufficiency, including reduction or prevention of dependency;

c)         preventing or remedying neglect, abuse or exploitation of children and adults unable to protect their own interests, or preserving, rehabilitating or reuniting families;

d)         preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care by providing for community-based care, home-based care or other forms of less intensive care; and

e)         securing referral or admission for institutional care when other forms of care are not appropriate or providing services to individuals in institutions.

(Source:  Amended at 27 Ill. Reg. 9452, effective June 9, 2003)