20 ILCS 605/605-815
The Department, in cooperation with the Departments of Human Services and Employment Security, may establish a program to encourage community action agencies to establish programs that will help unemployed and underemployed single parents to identify, access, and develop, through such means as counseling or mentoring, internal and external resources that will enable those single parents to become emotionally and financially self-sufficient. The intended primary beneficiaries of the local programs shall be female heads of households who are at least 22 but less than 46 years of age and who are physically able to work but are unemployed or underemployed. The Department may make grants, subject to the availability of funding, to communities and local agencies for the purpose of establishing local programs as described in this Section. A grant under this Section shall be made for a period of one year and may be renewed if the Department determines that the program is successful in meeting its objectives. If the Department determines that implementation of a program has resulted in a savings of State moneys that otherwise would have been paid to beneficiaries of the program, the Department, on renewing a grant, may adjust the grant amount for those demonstrated savings.
For purposes of this Section, a person is underemployed if his or her income from employment is less than 185% of the federal official poverty income guideline.
20 ILCS 605/605-815