Catholic Charities Foster Care program provides safe, nurturing and loving homes to children who can no longer live with their natural parents most often due to physical or sexual abuse. Services include training and licensing for foster parents, guidance and support for families providing homes for relative children and specialized programs for the foster care of children with significant emotional an behavioral issues. Catholic Charities Foster Care Program is licensed by DCFS and nationally accredited through COA.

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.