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Provides placement for children with specialized needs in foster care. "Specialized" refers to children with medical, emotional, behavioral or mental health needs. Also refers to special groups such as adolescents and LGBTQ youth. Provides licensing for adults to foster or adopt children with specialized needs.

Emergency, agency-supported, and kinship/relative foster care including respite care for children and youth ages birth-18.

Services

Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Crisis Nurseries/Child Care
Family Crisis Shelters
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 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 Parent/Family Recruitment
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Home Based Parenting Education
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Parenting Skills Classes
Places children who have experienced neglect and/or abuse in a safe home. Other services include: - Counseling services for children, foster parents, and birth parents - Children advocacy in court - 24 hour crisis interventions - Foster home monitoring - Referrals for birth parents to get help for issues that prevent them from being with their 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

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

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 Homes for Dependent Children
Therapeutic Foster Homes
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Foster Home Placement
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
Continuum of foster care for children including emergency, agency supported, and treatment. Foster families receive 24-hour support and assistance.

Services

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

Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Foster Home Placement
Case/Care Management
Intensive Family Reunification Services
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

Illinois foster care services are supported 24 hours a day. Training is required for foster parents at all levels of care, as well as annual continuing education to enhance skills.

Traditional foster care serves youth who have been determined to be abused, neglected, or dependent.

Relative foster care allows children who have been determined to be abused, neglected, or dependent to be placed in the home of a relative.

Specialized foster care is designed for youth who have significant behavioral, developmental, or emotional problems and who require more intense services and monitoring.

Services

Foster Home Placement
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
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 foster home services for abused and/or neglected children in need of emergency placement and/or residential placement.
Provides foster home services for abused and/or neglected children in need of emergency placement and/or residential placement.
Provides foster care homes for dependent children who need intensive supervision and therapy.
Provides foster home services for abused and/or neglected children in need of emergency placement and/or residential placement.
Provides foster home services for abused and/or neglected children in need of emergency placement and/or residential placement.

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

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

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

Emergency, agency-supported, and kinship/relative foster care including respite care for children and youth ages birth-18.

Services

Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Crisis Nurseries/Child Care
Family Crisis Shelters
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

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
Children's services include childcare referrals; residential treatment (contracted); foster care; group home care (contracted); and juvenile court services.

Services

Child Care Provider Referrals
Juvenile Courts
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Child/Adolescent Residential Treatment Facilities
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 Parent/Family Recruitment
Foster Homes for Dependent Children