The Baby Fold is a multi- services agency that provides Residential, Special Education, Child Welfare, and Family Support Services to children and families in central Illinois. The Baby Fold's Child Welfare Services department includes adoption, foster care, pregnancy counseling, and post adoption services.The Baby Fold acknowledges the importance of family to a child. Child Welfare Services are based upon the belief that every child has the right to a home in which to experience love, growth, and sharing.

2924 Stanton Street
Springfield, IL 62703

217-585-9185

Amy Chase

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.

All children deserve to grow up in a family in which they feel loved, cared for and free from harm. When that doesnt happen, we find, license and train compassionate caring families to provide that safe haven for children in need.

Through counseling, casework educational and support services, we help families change the circumstances of abuse and neglect that led to their children being placed in foster care. When reunification is not possible, we find loving adoptive parents to provide each child with a lasting family.

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Peoria provides a wide variety of services to area residents regardless of age, gender, race, income, or faith. Programs include foster care, adoption services, pregnancy support, residential treatment and independent living services, family counseling, youth crisis intervention, daycare, senior services, community organizing, family preservation, Latino and immigrant outreach, abstinence education, and womens counseling and support. Approximately, 450 staff and 1,700 volunteers serve more than 32,000 children and families throughout 26 central Illinois counties each year.

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.  

The Family Community Resource Center is a faith based non-profit organization that provides advocacy, outreach, support and education to families. We have three main objectives; decrease the number of domestic violence cases affecting children; increase the number of foster care parents in Bloomington-Normal; educate the community of the laws, court procedures and the overall child protection process. I. Our Goals: (A) To provide advocacy, outreach, support and education to families, the Family and Community Resource Center: (1) Work with the legal system to re-examine domestic violence--in particular, to lessen the negative impact DCFS intervention may have on families; (2) Provide family counseling, education and the assistance of trained family support specialist; (3) Examine and work to improve critical aspects of the DCFS intervention process and strive to preserve the integrity of the family. To serve as a liaison and partner to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, the Family & Community Resource Center: (1) Work to improve relations between the community, DCFS and other affiliate agencies; (2) Educate the community through the development and implementation of town hall meetings and other community outreach initiatives; and (3) Provide intervention through consultation to the community and agencies alike. (B) To serve as a liaison and partner to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, the Family & Community Resource Center: (1) Work to improve relations between the community, DCFS and other affiliate agencies; (2) Educate the community through the development and implementation of town hall meetings and other community outreach initiatives; and (3) Provide intervention through consultation to the community and agencies alike. (C) To provide needed Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity Training: The Family &

Community Resource Center works in collaboration with local agencies and organizations to conduct well-rounded sensitivity training sessions for a range of participants including partnering agencies and DCFS Staff in order to improve community and business relations. We are aware that families are important to the life and development of any community. The Family & Community Resource Center has maintained a commitment to assure that families are secure. We are committed protecting the values of the family.

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.