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Works with families and children in need of a safe and stable home. Home studies, support for foster and adoptive parents and relative caregivers, safety planning for families in crises, and life and parenting skills training are some of the services offered.

Services

Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Adoptive Family Recruitment
Parenting Skills Classes
Provides training, resources, and professional guidance to earn a license to be a foster parent.

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

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 and emergency foster care. Respite care for children in foster care or with natural parents. Home studies for prospective foster and relative placements for children.

Family Support / Community Treatment Aide helps parents create a healthy and positive home environment. Ensures proper care, safety and guidance of children, creates alternative support systems, and achieves self-sufficiency. Specialists usually meet with parent, youth or the entire family in their home, school or community setting to provide education, assistance, crisis intervention and support.

Parent Assist Service assists parents with 'at risk' youth by educating them on how to set rules, expectations and consequences and by providing them with information to additional resources.

Parent education classes.

Drug testing.

Services

Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Parenting Skills Classes
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Home Based Parenting Education
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment

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
Association House of Chicago helps foster parents meet and exceed licensing requirements. Bilingual staff provide training and support throughout the time spent as a foster parent, so individuals and families can make a difference in the life of a child.
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.
Little City is committed to recruiting and supporting foster/adoptive families to provide loving homes for youth ages 0-21 who have been identified as abused or neglected by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
Works in partnership with the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services to recruit and equip families to provide safe, caring, temporary care for a child while the birth family works towards reunification. Four Oaks serves all counties in Iowa.

Note: Inquiries about a specific child being placed in home should be made directly to HHS at (877) 364-1112.

Services

Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Adoptive Family Recruitment

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
The primary goal of foster care is to restore children safely to their families and foster parents play an essential function in helping the child and parents maintain their family bond during the period of separation. If a child cannot return home, foster parents may provide a permanent home. When this happens, the foster parents eventually assume legal responsibility for the child as the guardian or through adoption.
Works with families and children in need of a safe and stable home. Home studies, support for foster and adoptive parents and relative caregivers, safety planning for families in crises, and life and parenting skills training are some of the services offered.

Services

Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Adoptive Family Recruitment
Parenting Skills Classes
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.
One Hope United recruits and trains foster parents and provides myriad supportive services to children and families. One Hope United works to strengthen families, relationships, and communication to help children overcome adversity and look forward to a prosperous future. Parents who foster children through One Hope United have ongoing support that's only a call away.
Program for recruiting and supporting foster parents and foster families.
Foster care to provide a family setting for children and youth who would otherwise be in a group home setting; emergency foster care also offered.

Foster parent recruitment, retention, and support services in conjunction with Lutheran Family Services.

Aftercare services for children who have aged out of foster care.

Services

Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment

Foster care services for children.

Foster parent recruitment in the Omaha, northern, and southwestern service areas of Nebraska. Foster parents can be married or single individuals who have an interest in helping children and families. Foster parents are provided initial and ongoing training to assist in providing care for their foster children, and are assigned a NOVA TC Foster Care Specialist who provides support through home visits and case management services. Foster Care Specialists are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Services

Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Case management services to abused and neglected children who are placed in foster care. Offers counseling for individuals and families in foster care.

Adoption Preservation

Intact Family Services works with families referred by DCFS to prevent entering foster care.

Services

Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Foster Homes for Dependent Children

Provides out-of-home placement for a wide range of youth, including young victims of abuse and neglect, emergency short term care, and youth with severe emotional and behavioral disorders. The goals for the youth in care are either reunification with family, guardianship or adoption, or independent living. Care is delivered in private homes with specially trained foster parents. Foster Care Specialists are responsible for coordinating various services while youth are in care. If required, the agency will provide additional therapeutic support to both the biological family and foster family, as well as the youth in care.

Services

Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Therapeutic Foster Homes

Out of home placement option for children and adolescents whose special needs hinder their success in a traditional foster care placement.

Offers 30 hours of training, in-service training, professional consultation, 24 hour on call support services, respite services for foster parents, and performance evaluations.

Foster parents are reimbursed for the child's basic needs, with an additional stipend for providing treatment.

Services

Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Foster Homes for Dependent Children

Out of home placement option for children and adolescents whose special needs hinder their success in a traditional foster care placement.

Offers 30 hours of training, in-service training, professional consultation, 24 hour on call support services, respite services for foster parents, and performance evaluations.

Foster parents are reimbursed for the child's basic needs, with an additional stipend for providing treatment.

Services

Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
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

Provides out-of-home placement for a wide range of youth, including young victims of abuse and neglect, emergency short term care, and youth with severe emotional and behavioral disorders. The goals for the youth in care are either reunification with family, guardianship or adoption, or independent living. Care is delivered in private homes with specially trained foster parents. Foster Care Specialists are responsible for coordinating various services while youth are in care. If required, the agency will provide additional therapeutic support to both the biological family and foster family, as well as the youth in care.

Services

Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Therapeutic Foster Homes