Meet Oscar and Kaylee Gordon, LSSI foster parents in southern Illinois, pictured with their...
Expanding a Family through Love and Foster Care
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Foster Care
Bernice’s Big Heart
Meet Bernice, an LSSI foster parent and superhero. Bernice began fostering in 1995 and has...
Books Brighten Children’s Christmas
In Dixon, IL, Carolyn Chin and her late husband, Larry Dunphy, cofounded Books on First in 1998, a...
A Foster Care Family Affair in Northern Illinois
Solange and her husband, who live in Northern Illinois, had five biological children when they...
Caring for Teenage Girls in Foster Care
Becky is a dedicated foster parent in Whiteside County who has worked with LSSI since 2005. In...
Foster Parents Welcome Seven Children through Adoption
Amanda Rushing Holbrook remembers vividly the day she and her husband, Daniel, journeyed down a...
Foster Parents Show Love; Model Family Support
With more than 18,000 children in Illinois in foster care, foster parents Mandi and Roberto Garcia...
Therapeutic Foster Care Achieving Success
In 2017, LSSI started its pilot Therapeutic Foster Care program to support children who have...
Keys to Success
With her warm voice and infectious laugh, Gloria Cunningham jokes about being one of the first...