SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Director Marc Smith will resign effective Dec. 31, he told colleagues in an all-staff town hall meeting Wednesday morning.
“Illinois foster children had been ‘anguishing’ in psychiatric hospitals, staying ‘beyond medical need’ due to lack of appropriate placements being available.”
Marc D. Smith, director of the embattled Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, said Wednesday he will leave his post at the end of the year.