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| AN ACT concerning aging.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Community Senior Services and Resources Act |
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| is amended by changing Section 25 as follows:
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| (320 ILCS 60/25)
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| Sec. 25. Community senior services and resource center |
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| grants.
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| (a) On and after January 1, 2005, the Department may award |
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| grants under this
Act. It is
the General Assembly's intent that |
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| grants awarded under this Act shall be made
to the
extent of |
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| the availability and level of appropriations made for this |
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| purpose by
the General
Assembly.
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| (b) A center must meet the following criteria to be |
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| eligible to receive a
grant under this Section:
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| (1) It must be a non-profit agency or a unit of local |
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| government.
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| (2) It must be housed in a building or portion of a |
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| building that includes
space
for group activities offered |
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| to the community at large.
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| (3) It must be open 5 or more days each week, 7 or more |
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| hours per day.
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| (4) It must employ paid staff.
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| (5) It must offer 5 or more home or community-based |
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| services to the
community at large on a daily basis.
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| (6) A majority of the participants in the center's |
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| programs must be
seniors or
family members of seniors.
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| (c) A center must apply for a grant in the manner |
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| prescribed by the
Department. At a minimum, the application |
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| must do the following:
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| (1) Describe the services offered by the center.
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| (2) Identify the special needs of the center and how |
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| the grant will be
used to alleviate identified funding |
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| problems.
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| (3) Demonstrate that the center addresses the service |
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| needs of seniors in
the community served by the center.
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| (4) Describe other potential funding sources.
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| (5) Describe additional funding opportunities, if any, |
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| to be leveraged
with grant
funds.
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| (6) Provide proof of the center's involvement in the |
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| community's greater
service delivery system.
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| (7) Provide documentation that funds were requested |
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| from other sources,
including, but not limited to, units of |
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| local government, local donors, local
Area
Agencies on |
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| Aging, or private or religious foundations.
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| (8) Include letters of support for the awarding of the |
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| grant, from sources
such as local government officials, |
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| community leaders, other human service
providers,
the |
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| local Area Agency on Aging, private or religious |
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| foundations, or local
membership-based
organizations.
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| (d) The Department may award grants for the purposes of |
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| modifying the physical structure of a center or experimenting |
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| with innovative programming, which includes but is not limited |
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| to after-hours programming, to permit a center to appeal to a |
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| broader array of seniors.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-246, eff. 7-22-03.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| becoming law.
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