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Lutheran Family Service - Council Bluffs
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Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois - Springfield
Assists expectant parents in examining their options and coming to a decision about placing their child for adoption. LCFS social worker meets with expectant family privately and confidentially, in a location that is comfortable for them. After placing a child for adoption the LCFS worker will continue to be available for follow-up support as needed. If the choice is made to not place the child for adoption, follow-up services are also available.
Services include:
-- Assistance with selecting adoptive parents.
-- Assistance with pregnancy-related expenses.
-- Follow-up services, including referrals to resources.
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Easterseals Joliet Region - Residential and Social Services
Provides foster care and foster parents support with an emphasis on children with disabilities (though there are also children without disabilities in the program). Services include:
· Foster home licensure.
· Children's placements.
· Case management.
· Social work services.
· Foster home training.
· Respite Care.
· Adoptions.
· Family Support.
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Lutheran Family Services - Lincoln
Recruits and prepares adoptive families. Offers services for identified adoptions, foster care adoptions, and post placement services.
Provides contractual home studies for domestic and international adoptions.
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Caritas Family Solutions - Effingham
Offers foster care, adoption services, or pregnancy option counseling. The Office of Community Connections connects with families in need with resources to provide stability and prevent DCFS involvement.
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Lutheran Family Services - Sarpy County
Recruits and prepares adoptive families. Offers services for identified adoptions, foster care adoptions, and post placement services.
Provides contractual home studies for domestic and international adoptions.
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Lutheran Family Services - Grand Island
Recruits and prepares adoptive families. Offers services for identified adoptions, foster care adoptions, and post placement services.
Provides contractual home studies for domestic and international adoptions.
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Choices Pregnancy and Health - Mattoon
Provides a list of referrals for adoption agencies in the area.
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Nebraska Children's Home Society - Norfolk
Provides accurate information on adoption, and lifelong support, so the family is successful in meeting the child’s best interest by offering the following services and resources:
Provides free and confidential pregnancy counseling for families, every step of the way; before, during, and after the birth of the child.
Assistance with making an adoption plan or parenting plan.
Parenting education. Support and education for baby's father on request.
Home studies for prospective adoptive parents.
Newborn care home for baby as a safe haven.
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Choices Pregnancy and Health - Casey
Provides a list of referrals for adoption agencies in the area.
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Nebraska Children's Home Society - Lincoln
Provides accurate information on adoption, and lifelong support, so the family is successful in meeting the child’s best interest by offering the following services and resources:
Provides free and confidential pregnancy counseling for families, every step of the way; before, during, and after the birth of the child.
Assistance with making an adoption plan or parenting plan.
Parenting education. Support and education for baby's father on request.
Home studies for prospective adoptive parents.
Newborn care home for baby as a safe haven.
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Center for Youth and Family Solutions - LaSalle
Serves families interested in adopting a child. Allows birth parents and adoptive parents to design an adoption plan that is in the best interest of the child, and recognizes the importance of the adoptive parents and birth parents developing an on-going relationship. Services include counseling young women who are pregnant, adoption orientations, adoption home studies for domestic and international adoptions, as well as for special needs adoptions, post-placement supervision, finalization services, ongoing support groups, and adoption searches.
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Lutheran Family Service - Urbandale
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Lutheran Family Service - Carroll
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Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois - Springfield
Assists adoptive families with the process of adoption. Adoption specialists available to provide support and guidance before, during, and after adoptions.
Adoption programs:
-- Domestic Identified Adoption: Prospective adoptive families and birth parents connect with each other directly or through an intermediary. LCFS can provide guidance to the prospective adoptive families.
-- Interstate Adoption: LCFS can assist prospective adoptive families in Illinois who identify prospective birth parents in another state. LCFS can also assist prospective adoptive families living outside of Illinois who have located expectant parents living in Illinois who are considering an adoption plan.
-- Adopting Children in Care: LCFS can assist prospective adoptive parents who are interested in adopting youth in care who are waiting for adoptive families.
-- International (Home Study Only) Adoption: LCFS can complete a home study for Illinois prospective adoptive parents who are working with a Hague-accredited placing agency.
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Center for Youth and Family Solutions - Bloomington (Morris)
Serves families interested in adopting a child. Allows birth parents and adoptive parents to design an adoption plan that is in the best interest of the child, and recognizes the importance of the adoptive parents and birth parents developing an on-going relationship. Services include counseling young women who are pregnant, adoption orientations, adoption home studies for domestic and international adoptions, as well as for special needs adoptions, post-placement supervision, finalization services, ongoing support groups, and adoption searches.
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Caritas Family Solutions - Waterloo
Offers foster care, adoption services, or pregnancy option counseling. The Office of Community Connections connects with families in need with resources to provide stability and prevent DCFS involvement.
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Nebraska Children's Home Society - Grand Island
Provides accurate information on adoption, and lifelong support, so the family is successful in meeting the child’s best interest by offering the following services and resources:
Provides free and confidential pregnancy counseling for families, every step of the way; before, during, and after the birth of the child.
Assistance with making an adoption plan or parenting plan.
Parenting education. Support and education for baby's father on request.
Home studies for prospective adoptive parents.
Newborn care home for baby as a safe haven.
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Nebraska Children's Home Society - Omaha
Provides accurate information on adoption, and lifelong support, so the family is successful in meeting the child’s best interest by offering the following services and resources:
Provides free and confidential pregnancy counseling for families, every step of the way; before, during, and after the birth of the child.
Assistance with making an adoption plan or parenting plan.
Parenting education. Support and education for baby's father on request.
Home studies for prospective adoptive parents.
Newborn care home for baby as a safe haven.
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Family Service Center of Sangamon County
Provides services for birth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted children.
Adoption Center's Programs:
-- Infant Adoption - The family will complete an adoption home study, become licensed as a foster parent and attend an adoption training. Adoptive families typically have an infant placement within 12-18 months. The Center requires potential adoptive parents to be at least 21-years-old. Families can come in all shapes and sizes and supports all potential parents in their dream of becoming a family.
-- International Adoption - The Center completes adoption home study services, foster home licensing services, and post placement visits for families pursuing international adoption.
The Center keeps extensive adoption records on file for children and families who completed adoptions through the agency. The adoption specialist is happy to assist an individual in locating information from his or her adoption file. There is a small fee for birth searches and fees are based on the time it takes to locate information.
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Clifford L. Johnson Center for Healthy Families
Recruits and prepares adoptive families. Offers services for identified adoptions, foster care adoptions, and post placement services.
Provides contractual home studies for domestic and international adoptions.
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Bethany for Children and Families - Administration and Illinois Family Services
Adoption services include recruitment, screening, assessing, and case management provided to persons choosing to adopt an infant. Counseling and support are provided to birth mothers/fathers choosing to place a child for adoption, as well as post-adoptive services for those who are adopted, adoptive parents, and birth parents. This includes international and private adoptions.
Adoptive home assessments provide guidance to prospective adoptive parents and/or adoptive parents in Iowa and Illinois.
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Our Children's Homestead - Rockford Office
Provides help for families to adopt children within the foster care system who are unable to return to their family of origin. A child placed in a foster home after six moths of care can become eligible for adoption. Families will receive the support of an Adoption Specialist who will help the family prepare for the transition. The adoption Specialist will also help the family identify any additional resources needed before adoption is completed.
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Caritas Family Solutions - Mount Vernon
Offers foster care, adoption services, or pregnancy option counseling. The Office of Community Connections connects with families in need with resources to provide stability and prevent DCFS involvement.
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Jewish Family Service