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Procedures 327 : Guardianship Services

• 327.1 Purpose and Introduction
• 327.2 Definitions
• 327.3 Acceptance of Children
• 327.4 Duties of the Guardianship Administrator
• 327.5 Medical Consents
• Appendix A - Termination Procedures
• Appendix B -- Wards committed to department of corrections, juvenile division
• Appendix C-- Placement in mental health facilities/hospitals or dmhdd facilities for the developmentally disabled
• APPENDIX D - FORM LETTER - Corporal Punishment of Department Wards
• Appendix E - Request for Approval of HIV Screening
• Appendix F - Immigration/legalization services for children with undocumented status
• Appendix G - Application for Social Security Number
• Appendix H: Human Immunodeficiency Disease

327.1 Purpose and Introduction

A "designee" must be registered with the Secretary of State in order to officially act in place of the Guardianship Administrator. Regional Administrators shall determine the number of designees needed in each Region and recommend the names of specific employees to be registered. The Regional Administrator may limit the type of consent which may be given by individual designees. Throughout these procedures, the officially registered designees will be referred to as "authorized agents."

The designees or "authorized agents" mentioned above will ordinarily perform their guardianship duties during the normal working hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Because the need for obtaining medical consents may arise outside of normal working hours, provisions have been made for coverage after hours, on weekends and on holidays.

Those provisions are:

Cook County: Hospitals in Cook County will be directed to call 312-880-6800. Such calls will be handled by the supervisor on duty at the Emergency Service Center.

Downstate: Hospitals outside of Cook County will be directed to call 217-782-6533. The supervisor on duty at the State Central Register will handle such calls.

More detailed instructions on how to handle after hours medical consents are contained in Section 327.5 of these procedures.

The Guardianship Administrator is designated as the person to be named guardian of the person of children who are placed in the care of the Department through court order pursuant to proceedings brought under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. The Guardianship Administrator is also the sole person in the Department whose name/position may be used to accept a child from a parent or parents through an instrument of surrender for adoption. The Guardianship Administrator is also the designated person in the Department who acts as "legal custodian" for children accepted for care under a voluntary placement agreement and is the acting custodian for children in protective custody.

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