While Lutheran Social Services of Illinois work with the Midwest Adoption Center (MAC) to assist individuals in facilitating the appropriate connections to help in their adoption search process. Confidential Intermediary Services of Illinois is one of the options administered by the Midwest Adoption Center to assist in the search process. A confidential intermediary has access to information from court files, adoption agency files, and birth/death/marriage/divorce files.

Search and Reunion Services

Court Appointed Confidential Intermediaries

Adoptive Parent/Child Search

Advocacy for children who are abused, neglected and dependent in the DuPage County court system. Community volunteers are appointed by the Juvenile Court Judge to be Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for the children.

Court Appointed Confidential Intermediaries | CASA of DuPage County, Inc.

Individuals appointed by the court to serve as agents for children placed for adoption who want to establish contact with their birth parents and/or for parents who want to establish contact with a child who was relinquished for adoption. If neither party has put in writing the instruction that they do not wish to be contacted, the intermediaries can establish contact with the birth parents on behalf of the child or the child on behalf of the birth parent.