DCFS always attempts to locate a relative for foster care placement.

Provides caregivers of older adults the assistance they need to be successful. This includes informing caregivers about services available and how to obtain access to those services, legal assistance in helping make decisions, and respite care to enable caregivers to be temporarily relieved from their caregiving responsibilities.

Provides counseling and support groups, training, and gap filling services for caregivers of older adults and grandparents raising grandchildren.

?Shelter's Home-of-Relative, Traditional Foster Care, and Emergency Foster Care programs aim to place children in safe, stable, and nurturing environments until they can be reunited with their biological families. When reunification is not possible for safety or other reasons, adoption may be one option, though fostering is typically a temporary commitment.

Kids Above All is looking to recruit nurturing, supportive and loving people to become foster parents. Interested foster parents must provide structure and necessities, assume parenthood of the child, attend meetings and semi-monthly visits with caseworkers, and make sure youth get to therapy and their required appointments. KAA's case managers provide training and support for our foster parents and act as advocates for our kids in school, court and with DCFS.