Since 1897, The Allendale Association has been serving children, youth, and families of Illinois and southern Wisconsin, as a licensed child welfare agency and healthcare provider. Allendale has evolved into a residential, educational and counseling organization for disadvantaged males and females, ages 7 to 21. The youth Allendale works with are in sincere need of help. Many of the youth who reside at Allendale have never known a secure, nurturing environment. Many have suffered sever and traumatic abuse, neglect or abandonment. Some of the youth suffer with mental illnesses. The Allendale Association provides youth with safe homes to live in, a school to learn in, and a chance to heal. Our trademarked model of therapy called Counter Response"! Training has become nationally recognized as a successful and innovative method of treating children and adults who suffer with behavioral disorders. Your help can provide guidance, affirmation, and a means of helping a troubled youth realize their potential.

Association House promotes a continuum of services to people of all ages and ethnicities. We currently have a staff of nearly 200 individuals, offering culturally and linguistically competent programs to our Latino participant population.  Current programs are offered in both English and Spanish in three main areas:
Child Welfare Services includes foster care, intact, licensing, adoption services, and residential group home;  Behavioral Health Services includes programs for adults with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities, substance abuse services, counseling, after school programs for children and teens and residential services; and Community Center Services includes arts and technology education programs, El Cuarto Año Alternative H.S., emergency social services, computer education and training, an integrated health and nutrition, and adult education in English as a Second Language, Spanish and English Literacy, Pre-GED, GED, Citizenship Preparation, and financial literacy.

450 E. Devon, Suite 285
Itasca, IL 60143

630-773-1985

Sandy Shamie-Kondziolka

(Central and Northern Cook County) Camelot Community Care is a national nonprofit Child Welfare Agency licensed by the State of Illinois, a member of the Child Care Association of Illinois, and is accredited by the Council on Accreditation. Camelot's current service array includes Foster Care Services at three levels of intensity with accompanying Case Management and Intensive In-Home Counseling. Camelot programs also include Adoption Services, Crisis Intervention, and service referral/coordination. Camelot Communities Care's mission is to develop and provide services, which enable children and families to realize their potential. All programs of Camelot Community Care can be tailored to meet the needs of the individual child and family. The agency also recruits, trains and licenses individuals and couples to be specialized foster parents.

As a licensed and nationally accredited Child Welfare Agency, Catholic Charities, Diocese of Joliet provides a wide range of services to children and families who reside in DuPage, Will, Kendall, Grundy, Kankakee, Iroquois and Ford counties in Illinois.  The agency offers services through three regional offices located in the cities of Lombard, Joliet, Kankakee. Services include foster care, a full range of adoption services, family support services for relative caregivers, home licensing and monitoring and foster parent support services. Services are available in Spanish.

Children's Home + Aid saves children's lives, moves families forward, and goes where the need is greatest. Founded in 1883, Children's Home + Aid continues a mission of giving help, hope, and opportunity to children with a variety of emotional, physical, and behavioral needs. Each year we help more than 40,000 children and families in Illinois through a wide range of services like adoption, foster care, education, counseling, and child abuse prevention.

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.

Kids Hope United is a private, human service organization dedicated to protecting children and strengthening families. We offer a diverse array of community-based programs and services, including child development, counseling, foster care and adoption. Our services impact more than 8,000 children and families across Illinois.

Kids Hope United believes that all children hold promise. We help bring them hope of a brighter future.

Established in 1865, Lawrence Hall Youth Services treats, educates and provides a home for severely emotionally disturbed and behaviorally disordered children. Children who have no place else to turn. Lawrence Hall is a critical link in the Illinois child welfare system, caring for over 1,200 children and their families, each year.

Life link is a multi-faceted health and human service organization providing quality programs and services to people of all generations, cultures, religions, genders and socio-economic status. We began as an orphanage and "old folks' home" in Bensenville, IL, caring for nine children and two elderly residents. Throughout this last century our programs have evolved, and as society's needs changed to meet the needs of the people we serve. We have also stayed true to the mission set forth by our 13 founders-to provide compassionate services to those in need. As we continue into our next 110 years of services, we will continue to impact the lives of the older adults, children and families we serve, and in turn impact the world around us.

http://www.littlecityadoptions.org

Theresa Moran

Little City Foundation provides services for children and adults with developmental challenges such as mental retardation, cerebral palsy, autism, Down syndrome, epilepsy, visual and hearing challenges and emotional disturbance. Services include housing, employment, recreation, foster care, adoption, home-based support, services coordination, media and studio arts, advocacy, and public education. Little City Foundation's Foster Care Program provides quality homes for children with special needs. Foster Families receive extensive and on-going training, frequent respite, considerable in-home support, and assistance in coordinating services for the child. Our professional staff works as a team with foster parents, biological families, and outside agencies to create a nurturing environment for the children in need.

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.

551 South Fourth Street
Aurora, IL 60505

630-896-2714

Natalie Hernandez

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.

Our Children's Homestead is dedicated to assuring safe and secure homes for abused, neglected and troubled foster children. We believe that each child no matter what circumstances surround them deserves the chance to succeed. Our entire staff is dedicated to providing the services necessary for every child to have their dreams come true. Our staff, foster parents and volunteers all strive to live our mission of One Child One Dream.

For more than 30 years, Shelter, Inc. has provided foster care services for the northwest suburbs of Chicago. We would appreciate your inclusion of the following paragraph and a link to our Website in the Cook County/Chicagoland and Statewide Agency links:
"Since 1975, Shelter has provided community-based, emergency and temporary housing for thousands of children and adolescents from birth through age 17 in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, who are abused, neglected, dependent or in need of supervision. Our mission is to help and protect children. We do this by providing 24-hour emergency and longer-term care, by creating community awareness and education to prevent such abuse and neglect, and promoting healthy families to reduce child abuse and neglect. As a nonprofit, licensed and accredited child welfare agency, Shelter provides quality services to meet the needs of the community:
Emergency, Traditional and Home-of-Relative Foster Care Foster care for children from birth through age 17.
Boys Group Home, Palatine The only emergency group home for boys ages 11 through 17 in the Northwest Suburbs Jennings Group Home for Girls, Schaumburg Emergency housing for girls ages 11 through 17.
Older Adolescent Group Home, Arlington Heights The only group home for 16- and 17-year-old boys in the Northwest Suburbs focusing on independent living skills.
Healthy Families Program Home visitation and parenting education program for first-time parents. The only Healthy Families program in the Northwest Suburbs.

SOS Children's Villages Illinois is a non-profit child welfare agency that builds Villages for children who are removed from their biological families due to neglect, abuse, abandonment or inability to care for them. Unlike traditional foster care, SOS reunites children with their siblings to live together with a trained SOS foster parent who provides care, stability and structure.  The SOS Children's Village model allows vital support services to be close proximity of the home and thereby improving our ability to help these children become self-reliant adults.

SOS Children's Villages Illinois consists of two villages, one in Lockport and our newest village located on the south side of Chicago, in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood.
SOS Children's Villages Illinois located in Lockport and Chicago are two of three SOS villages in the United States.

Universal Family Connection Inc. (UFC) provides comprehensive casework services to Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) wards and their families in an effort to establish what is in the best interest of the child. UFC provides a broad range of services to tackle issues related to the children), biological family, or substitute care givers which threaten the protection, safety and/or permanence of the child(ren). The goal of UFC's foster care services is to assist children who have experience an unsafe, chaotic, or unstable home environment with their birth family. UFC works with foster families to provide the child(ren) with a continuous living arrangement that provides the child with love, security and a stable home life while working toward a permanent living arrangement. A permanent living arrangement (Return Home, Adoption or Independent Living) is unique to each child's needs and best interest. UFC serves children, 21 and under, for whom DCFS has responsibility and whose service needs has indicated that foster car is appropriate an in the child(ren)'s best interest.