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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois
3 are pleased to recognize the milestones of important
4 institutions in the State; and
 
5     WHEREAS, In the late 1950s and early 1960s, child welfare
6 professionals in Illinois were becoming increasingly concerned
7 about children who needed care and services but were left out
8 of the child welfare system; to consolidate efforts to study
9 and assess further the needs of such children, "The Committee
10 on the Left Out Child" was created and functioned under the
11 charge of the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago; the
12 committee determined the needs of children were so great and
13 the services to them were so fragmented that the creation of a
14 separate Department to serve all of Illinois' children and
15 their families was needed; and
 
16     WHEREAS, The "Committee on the Left Out Child" became the
17 "Comprehensive Family and Child Welfare Committee; following
18 the creation of the Department of Mental Health in 1961,
19 rigorous efforts to create a separate Department for Children
20 and Families continued even more strongly until the Department
21 of Children and Family Services was created through legislation
22 in 1963; and
 
23     WHEREAS, The legislation creating the Department of
24 Children and Family Services was enacted by the 73rd General
25 Assembly; it was approved and signed by the Governor on June 4,
26 1963, and became effective on January 1, 1964; the stated
27 purpose of the act was "to create a Department of Children and
28 Family Services to provide social services to children and
29 their families, to operate children's institutions, and to
30 provide certain other rehabilitative and residential
31 services"; and
 

 

 

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1     WHEREAS, Upon its inception, the Department of Children and
2 Family Services took over responsibility for most of the
3 non-psychiatric programs and services for children from the
4 Department of Mental Health; and
 
5     WHEREAS, The Department of Children and Family Services has
6 undergone a number of changes since 1964; the Child Care Act of
7 1969 and amendments in 1973 and 1975 included information about
8 licensing and inspections functions that are the
9 responsibility of the Department of Children and Family
10 Services; therefore, be it
 
11     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-THIRD GENERAL
12 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we congratulate the
13 Department of Children and Family Services on the occasion of
14 its 40th anniversary, and we commend the Department for its
15 work on behalf of the children of the State of Illinois; and be
16 it further
 
17     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
18 presented to Department of Children and Family Services as an
19 expression of our esteem.