219 Withers Dr.
Mt. Vernon, IL 62864

877-277-3773 x222

Catholic Social Services of Southern Illinois is a not-for-profit Social Service Agency Accredited by the Council on Accreditation for Children and Family Services and licensed by the the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services, license #003976. Our mission is to be a visible expression of God's love by responding to needs of the people of southern Illinois and by promoting a just and caring community for men, women, and children from all backgrounds. We offer a diverse array of community-based programs and services, including Specialized & Traditional Foster Care and Residential Treatments Services to children referred by the Department & Family Services, Pregnancy care, adoption, Senior Employment, and Counseling. Services are provided to the children and families served in foster care programs to ensure safety, permanency, and well-being. Services include; case management, foster care recruitment, training and support, after hours emergency services, foster care respite, and educational advocacy. Catholic Social Services serve the southern most 28 counties of Illinois. Services are provided from 4 regional sites and Don Bosco Children's Home.

www.childrenshomeandaid.org

sprovost@tcf.chasi.org

Children's Home + Aid provides child welfare services in
variuos counties in the central region. Our priority is to ensure the safety and well-being of each child in foster care. We are always looking for families who would be interested in opening their home and lives to a foster child or sibling group. Children of all ages enter foster care and need a loving family to care about them during this difficult time in their life.  We provide an advocate or mentor to children to assist them with social skills, academics, and to just spend some one on one time with them. Children's Home + Aid also provides
counseling to children and families who come to our agency for services.We have also started an Adoption Program at Children's Home + Aid. If you are interested in being a foster parent or learning more about foster care and our agency please contacts us with your questions.

A private, nonprofit, and nonsectarian social service agency, Children's Home + Aid champions the welfare of children and their families and is recognized as a leader in providing quality services.  

Hoyleton Youth and Family Services is a licensed and accredited not-for-profit (c)(3) faith based organization administering seventeen social service programs at six location in the Metro-east St. Louis and southwestern Illinois areas. Helping those in need since 1895, Hoyleton's mission is to enable all people, young and old alike, to realize the wholeness of life that God intends. This will be accomplished with the compassion of Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit, reaching out to meet the physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and social needs of those with whom we journey. To this end, Hoyleton has served over 1600 people and completed over 400 individual and family counseling sessions within the past year throughout programs including; foster care; residential treatment; federal runaway and homeless youth programs including crisis intervention and transitional living; independent living programs including a pregnant and parenting teens component; cancer awareness; Hispanic/Latino outreach and a variety of community development efforts. Hoyleton is licensed by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, accredited by the Council on Accreditation for Children and Family Services, and is a member of the Child Welfare League of America and the Child Care Association of Illinois.

Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois is a human service agency committed to providing high-quality social services responsive to the needs of children and families across Illinois. Founded in 1873, LCFS has been providing hope and help to the least among us for more than 130 years. Today, LCFS serves more than 40,000 individuals of all faiths, races and ethnic backgrounds each year through programs such as adoption, counseling, foster care, residential treatment and a variety of community services. Each year LCFS supervisors more than 700 foster children in homes throughout Illinois.

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois brings healing, justice and wholeness to children, individuals and families at more than 100 locations in Illinois. Through a wide variety of services, LSSI touches the lives of tens of thousands of people each year, restoring hope to people of all ages, races, religions and economic circumstances. For more than 135 years, LSSI has been meeting people where they are, understanding their needs and working with them to create lives of wholeness.