LSSI's Children's Community Services offers services like foster care, adoption, and intact family services to ensure that children are in loving homes.

Children's Community Services

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois provides supportive services for children in need and their families. Foster care services focus on placing children who have experienced neglect or abuse in a loving and secure home. Children's Community Services offers numerous other services to at-risk children and their families in their communities.

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois is a licensed child welfare agency — License #013005

Portrait of a family served by LSSI's Children's Community Services

Post-Adoption Services

Adoption Preservation Services
Search and Reunion

Portrait of a recipient of LSSI's Children's Community Services

Foster Care

Placement services, including children with special needs
Adopting from foster care
Lifebooks

Portrait of a family receiving services from LSSI's Chilren's Community Services

Family Support Services

Intact Family Services
System of Care
Extended Family Support

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Nachusa Lutheran Home

Crisis Intervention for youth and families
Services for youth on probation

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Therapeutic Foster Care

Provides more intensive support for children with histories of severe trauma and emotional/behavioral needs
Comprises teams of dedicated clinicians, caseworkers, and specially trained foster parents
Works with children and families in Aurora, Chicago, Peoria, or Rockford