20 ILCS 1705/11.2

To maintain and operate the Bureau for Mentally Ill Children and Adolescents and the Bureau for Children and Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities. Each Bureau shall:

(a) develop the Department policies necessary to assure a coherent services system for, and develop and coordinate planning on a Statewide basis for delivery of services to, children or adolescents with mental illness and children and adolescents with a developmental disability, including:

(1) assessment of the need for various types of programs, such as prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, and

(2) design of a system to integrate additional services, including service alternatives;

(b) provide consultation and technical assistance to the appropriate Department subdivisions and coordinate service planning and development efforts for children and adolescents with a developmental disability and children or adolescents with mental illness;

(c) develop cooperative programs with community service providers and other State agencies which serve children;

(d) assist families in the placement of children with mental illness, as specified in Section 7.1; and

(e) develop minimum standards for the operation of both State-provided and contracted community-based services for promulgation as rules.