Who Will Lose Out?

State Department: Department of Children and Family Services

Total Cuts in Dollars and Programs:

Forced to Cut $460 Million

• Child advocacy centers for abused children.
• Adoptive and guardian care payments
• Foster care payments
• Services for youth with disabilities
• Triple foster care caseloads
• Daycare
• Adoptive preservation
• Foster care respite and support
  

Number of Individuals Losing Services:
16,000

Number of State Jobs Lost by Cut:
1,171

State Deparment: Department of Human Services

Total Cuts in Dollars and Programs:

Forced to Cut $1 Billion

• Child care assistance
• Cutting rates to providers by 40%
• Eliminating programs for autism, respite and family assistance, home-based supports, children’s residential and group home services
• Ending addiction treatment for 20,800 adolescents and adults
• Cut community mental health programs
• Cut funding for health programs by 75%, including Teen REACH, Healthy Families, and
• Domestic Violence
• Closing 6 of 9 State-operated psychiatric hospitals and 4 of 9 State-operated developmental centers
• Closing 42 of 120 DHS Family and Community Resource Centers
• Closing Illinois School for the Deaf, Illinois School for the Visually Impaired and Illinois Center for Rehabilitation and Education
  

Number of Individuals Losing Services:
n/a

Number of State Jobs Lost by Cuts:
5,400

State Department: Illinois Student Assistance Commission

Total Cuts in Dollars and Programs:

Forced to Cut $275 Million

• Reduced MAP scholarship awards by 75% for 145,000 low-income students
  50% cut to book stipends for 2,500 low-income first-time students
• Elimination of Minority Teachers of Illinois Scholarship Program for 580 students
• Elimination of Future Teacher/Golden Apple Scholarships for 900 students
  

Number of Individuals Losing Services:
184,000

Number of State Jobs Lost by Cuts:
n/a

State Department: Department on Aging

Total Cuts in Dollars and Programs:

Forced to Cut $388 Million

• Elimination of all community care program services for 20,000 lower-income seniors who are not eligible for Medicaid and reducing benefits to 55 percent for the remaining 35,000 Medicaid-eligible clients
• Reduced case management for 55,000 frail seniors
• 50% circuit breaker cuts which provide property tax relief to seniors and people with disabilities
  

Number of Individuals Losing Services:
300,000

Number of State Jobs Lost by Cuts:
n/a

State Department: Department of Public Health

Total Cuts in Dollars and Programs:

Forced to Cut $61 Million

• 50% cut to the number of women receiving breast and cervical cancer screening and treatment
• Eliminating vaccines for Children Plus program
• Eliminating grants to local health departments for food, water, sewage and infectious disease services
• Eliminating grants to Poison Control Center hotline
• Eliminating Community Health Center Expansion sustaining funds
• Eliminating grants to grants to 11 regional centers for services to high-risk newborns
• Elimination of vision and hearing screening grants for 100,000 schoolchildren
• Elimination of prostate cancer outreach, education and screening for 75,000 men
• Elimination of HIV/AIDS education and testing to more than 300,000 youth and adults
• Elimination of Juvenile Diabetes Research GrantLay-offs of 64 state workers who investigate abuse and neglect
• Lay-offs of 40 state workers who monitor and regulate water quality at public pools, beaches, youth camps and wells