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Causes: Child Abuse Prevention, Crime & Law, Domestic Violence
Mission: To facilitate the adoptive placement of children and to assist families created by adoption.
Programs: Adoption listing services/800 inquiry line - the organization operates the illinois adoption listing service which provides photolistings in publications, media and the internet for youth in foster care awaiting permanent loving homes; administers the heart gallery of illinois; and provides information and referral services to families wishing to either adopt or foster.
recruitment & kin connection project - this program, run in conjunction with the illinois dept. Of children and family services, and has a direct interface with all other programs for the purpose of establishing lifelong family permanency opportunities for children at the point in time that they enter the foster care system.
wendy's wonderful kids - in partnership with the dave thomas foundation for adoption, the organization employs 2 recruiters to provide child-specific recruitment of adoptive families for idcfs wards.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.