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.

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.

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.

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.