DCFS ACT-ALTERNATIVE CARE PLAN

Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services, in collaboration with community service providers, to annually develop and administer an objective plan with respect to services for dependent children that specifies the assessment and case planning process and prescribes the services needed to ensure the most appropriate alternate care placement for dependent children who must be placed outside their homes. Defines "assessment" and "dependent children". Provides that the plan must be developed by the Department in collaboration with community service providers, foster parent providers, licensed residential child care providers, mental health providers, parents and guardians, child care providers, school system representatives, juvenile justice council members, and other community representatives, and must be approved by the regional administrator. Requires that the plan must be approved prior to the beginning of each fiscal year for use in preparing the legislative budget request for the following fiscal year.