Article II – Legislative Declaration

(410 ILCS 230/Art. II heading)

ARTICLE II.
LEGISLATIVE DECLARATION.

 

(410 ILCS 230/2-100) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4602-100)

Sec. 2-100.
(A) The General Assembly finds:

(1) The problems of problem pregnancy and parenthood are multiple and
complex and are best approached through a variety of integrated and essential services;

(2) Such services, including a wide array of educational and supportive
services often are not available to persons who need them, or are available
but fragmented and thus of limited effectiveness in preventing pregnancies
and future welfare dependency.

(3) State policy therefore should encourage the development of appropriate
health, educational, and social services where they are now lacking or inadequate,
and the better coordination of existing services where they are available,
in order to assist problem pregnancies and to help those
people in need to become productive independent contributors to family and
community life.

(B) It is, therefore, the purpose of this Act:

(1) To establish better linkages among existing programs in order to expand
and improve the availability of, and access to, needed comprehensive community
services which assist problem pregnancies and to obtain proper care and
assistance to those persons in
need to become productive independent contributors to family and
community life;

(2) To expand the availability of community services that are essential
to that objective; and

(3) To promote innovative, comprehensive and integrated approaches to
the delivery of such services.

(Source: P.A. 81-1106.)