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Provides placement and casework services for children who have been removed from their birth families because of abuse or neglect. Provides training, licensing, and services for foster families.

Assists individuals in Illinois in becoming licensed foster parents. Also provides follow-up training for foster parents to help meet the various needs of their foster children.

Services provided:

-- LCFS team provides guidance and support through the foster care experience.

-- Health insurance for the children placed in a foster home.

-- Therapy, counseling, and academic counseling, and special education services when needed.

-- Training programs, support groups, and newsletters geared to foster families.

-- Monthly financial support for the foster child(ren's) basic needs, including food, clothing, and housing costs.

-- Funding for daycare, after-school care, and extracurricular activities including sports and art programs for eligible children in foster care.

Services

Foster Home Placement
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Therapeutic Foster Homes
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Short- and long-term foster care provided to children of all ages in local licensed foster homes, including foster to adopt. Offers Child Welfare Case Management in the area of foster care of abused and neglected children.

Traditional Foster Care for children ages 0-18 whose families are unable or unwilling to meet the minimum standards of parents as defined by the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).

-- Specialized Foster Care provides intensive services to behaviorally challenged children ages 3-18.

-- Relative Foster Care allows children who need to be placed out of their home to be placed with relatives.

-- Aftercare Program is specially designed to assist children and their families upon their return home from living with a foster family.

Other services include:

-- Foster Parent Recruitment.

-- Adoption Conversions.

Services

Intensive Family Reunification Services
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Foster Home Placement
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Case/Care Management

Recruits and licenses homes for Traditional and Specialized foster care placement in the north-central counties of Illinois.

Foster parents cooperate with the court to set goals that ideally results in the return of the child to their family. If that is not possible, foster parents are asked to commit to permanency for the child.

Specialized foster care programs work to meet the special needs of physically, behaviorally, and emotionally challenged children and the foster families serving them. Provides intensive case management, comprehensive mental health services along with medical, developmental, and educational service specific to the child's needs.

Services

Therapeutic Foster Homes
Family Preservation Programs
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Foster Home Placement
Foster Homes for Dependent Children

Offers expectant parent advocacy that includes help and support for anyone who is pregnant, domestic adoptions and post-adoption services that includes counseling for children who have experienced trauma.

The Emergency Foster Care provides wraparound services for Emergency Foster Care (EFC) homes when they take children in. While the EFC program is considered a temporary placement (approximately 30-60 days), the goal is to help stabilize children who have experienced inconsistent care. To that end, Shelter Inc provides two significant supports besides the child's case worker: a wraparound worker and a therapist dedicated to the EFC program.
Camelot Care Centers specializes in higher-level foster care for children and adolescents who may need extra support. For that reason, they partner with their foster parents/homes to provide trauma-informed care and additional services, including in-home counseling, telepsychiatry, and therapeutic mentoring.

Traditional Foster Care for children ages 0-18 whose families are unable or unwilling to meet the minimum standards of parents as defined by the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).

-- Specialized Foster Care provides intensive services to behaviorally challenged children ages 3-18.

-- Relative Foster Care allows children who need to be placed out of their home to be placed with relatives.

-- Aftercare Program is specially designed to assist children and their families upon their return home from living with a foster family.

Other services include:

-- Foster Parent Recruitment.

-- Adoption Conversions.

Services

Intensive Family Reunification Services
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Foster Home Placement
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Case/Care Management
Kids Above All is looking to recruit nurturing, supportive, and loving people to become foster parents. Interested foster parents must provide structure and necessities, assume parenthood of the child, attend meetings and semi-monthly visits with caseworkers, and make sure youth get to therapy and their required appointments. KAA's case managers provide training and support for foster parents and act as advocates for kids in school, court, and with DCFS.
Camelot Care Centers specializes in higher-level foster care for children and adolescents who may need extra support. For that reason, they partner with their foster parents/homes to provide trauma-informed care and additional services, including in-home counseling, telepsychiatry, and therapeutic mentoring.
Program partnering with the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to provide specialized foster care to Illinois youth.
Provides placement and casework services for children who have been removed from their birth families because of abuse or neglect.
Ada S. McKinley Community Services, Inc. serves children who are placed in substitute care for whom the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has legal responsibility. These children require placement in licensed foster homes or emergency shelters due to abuse and neglect. All children and youth served by the Foster Care program must be referred by the Department of Children and Family Services.
Services include Foster Care and Specialized Foster Care licensing and support.
Children's Homestead services the more difficult foster care cases in DCFS. The children are placed into homes with foster parents who are trained and committed to provide care. The child is assigned a case worker who provides case management. The child is teamed with a licensed therapist who works with the child and foster parents to engage the child in programs like a therapeutic mentor program to overcome behavioral and socialization issues.

Provides placement and casework services for children who have been removed from their birth families because of abuse or neglect. Provides training, licensing, and services for foster families.

Short- and long-term foster care provided to children of all ages in local licensed foster homes, including foster to adopt. Offers Child Welfare Case Management in the area of foster care of abused and neglected children.

Provides placement and casework services for children who have been removed from their birth families because of abuse or neglect. Provides training, licensing, and services for foster families.

Placement with a non-relative who has become licensed with the agency.

Foster families are asked to identify their preference in age, race, gender, and special needs of the children they will be providing a foster care placement. The Center tries to find the best possible match for any foster children needing a home.

Foster care placements for children that are wards of the State of Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.

Foster parent recruiting, licensing, and support.

Services

Foster Home Placement
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Foster Homes for Dependent Children

Traditional Foster Care for children ages 0-18 whose families are unable or unwilling to meet the minimum standards of parents as defined by the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).

-- Specialized Foster Care provides intensive services to behaviorally challenged children ages 3-18.

-- Relative Foster Care allows children who need to be placed out of their home to be placed with relatives.

-- Aftercare Program is specially designed to assist children and their families upon their return home from living with a foster family.

Other services include:

-- Foster Parent Recruitment.

-- Adoption Conversions.

Services

Intensive Family Reunification Services
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Foster Home Placement
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Case/Care Management
Children's Homestead services the more difficult foster care cases in DCFS. The children are placed into homes with foster parents who are trained and committed to provide care. The child is assigned a case worker who provides case management. The child is teamed with a licensed therapist who works with the child and foster parents to engage the child in programs like a therapeutic mentor program to overcome behavioral and socialization issues.

Traditional Foster Care for children ages 0-18 whose families are unable or unwilling to meet the minimum standards of parents as defined by the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).

-- Specialized Foster Care provides intensive services to behaviorally challenged children ages 3-18.

-- Relative Foster Care allows children who need to be placed out of their home to be placed with relatives.

-- Aftercare Program is specially designed to assist children and their families upon their return home from living with a foster family.

Other services include:

-- Foster Parent Recruitment.

-- Adoption Conversions.

Services

Intensive Family Reunification Services
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Foster Home Placement
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Case/Care Management

Foster Care programs are designed to find safe, secure, and nurturing homes.

-- Relative Foster Care serves children who are placed in foster care with maternal or paternal relatives.

-- Fictive Kin Foster Care serves children who are placed with a non-relative, but the individual has personal or emotional ties with the child.

-- Traditional Foster Care serves children who are placed in non-relative, licensed foster homes.

-- Foster Family After Care serves children who have successfully returned home to their parents. It provides case management and counseling services in order to stabilize the newly reunited family. Services can continue for up to nine months.