Illinois
ILLINOIS
Carl L. Sciarini
Manager, Office of Quality Assurance
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
406 East Monroe, #222
Springfield, IL 62701-1498
(217) 524-2035
(217) 524-2101 Fax
Item 2.1: The Child Abuse Hotline received 352,792 calls in CY97, many not related to abuse/neglect. Once a report was taken, it was referred for investigation.
Item 2.2: Mental health personnel are included in "Medical Personnel."
Items 2.3, 3.2, and 3.5: "Other Dispositions" is used for those for which a final finding is still pending.
Item 4.1: Counts are duplicated for those children with more than one substantiated abuse.
Item 6.1: All perpetrator data are unduplicated counts.
Item 7.3: The methodology calculates the average time between when a report is taken at the hotline and the first contact is made by the investigator.
