- This month more than 300 children will enter the foster care system in Illinois due to abuse or neglect.
- Each year more than 4,000 children enter the Illinois foster care system.
- There are more than 16,000 children in foster care in Illinois.
- In Chicago alone, there are more than 4,400 children in foster care.
- Over 30% of foster children do not live with their brothers and sisters.
- There are more than 6,000 teenagers who live in foster care. Many of these teenagers will “age-out” of the foster care system without a connection to a permanent family.
- Many foster children fall far behind their peers in school – 60% of foster children are in the bottom quarter of reading scores and 20% are older then their classroom peers.
Facts about Children’s Home + Aid
- Children’s Home + Aid serves more than 1,000 foster children throughout Illinois.
- Children’s Home + Aid advocates on behalf of all foster children:
- Infants, children, adolescents and teens with diverse ethnic backgrounds
- Children with special medical and emotional needs
- Brothers and sisters who need to stay together
- Teenage moms and their babies
- Children’s Home + Aid provides comprehensive case management services to children and their families. Foster parents receive:
- Financial support for board, food and clothes for each foster child
- Medical and dental care provided by the State of Illinois (Medical Card)
- Participation in regular foster parent training and support groups
- Consistent support and supervision
- Counseling services for the children
- Children’s Home + Aid invites you to help Illinois foster children and families:
- You can support foster children and families
- You can advocate for foster care
- You can become a foster parent
- You can call Children’s Home + Aid Foster Care services at 877-282-4274
- Children’s Home + Aid advocates on behalf of all foster children:
Children’s Home + Aid recognizes, respects, promotes and celebrates the value of cultural diversity and will ensure that each client’s ethnic or cultural customs, practices, and beliefs, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, disability, and/or community differences will be respected by agency staff.
