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LCFS and 360 Youth Services reach agreement to be stronger together

April 4, 2022

Today, the leadership team of Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois (LCFS) announced they have finalized an agreement to bring 360 Youth Services under the organizational umbrella of LCFS. 360 Youth Services will continue to operate as a separate social service non-profit, retaining its name, mission, values, and services, but with LCFS providing administrative support and governance. Both organizationsare ...

LCFS’ work highlighted in ‘Foster Focus’ Magazine

July 19, 2021

Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois’ work to improve outcomes for children and families of color was highlighted in the recent issue of Foster Focus Magazine, the only monthly national magazine about the foster care industry. Click here to check out the article. We’re so proud of all of our staff who’ve worked hard to ensure more children of ...

Beverly Jones Discusses LCFS’ Racial Equity Journey on Local Media

April 26, 2021

Lutheran Child and Family Services has been working tirelessly to get foster children into forever families and reunited with birth families whenever possible. We are particularly focused on improving outcomes for minority foster children who have historically been underserved and lagged behind in reunification. LCFS VP and COO Beverly Jones has reached out to local media to promote our racial ...

Mike Bertrand Named Nonprofit Executive Director of the Year

April 6, 2021

The Executive Service Corps is the premier nonprofit consultancy with the mission of making nonprofits successful. To achieve their mission, they provide consulting, coaching, and professional services to over 150 nonprofit organizations impacting 1.2 million people each year. Each year the Executive Service Corps bestows its prestigious philanthropic awards on exceptional leaders in the nonprofit community. This year, ESC has ...

LCFS receives national recognition as an innovator

October 9, 2019

The Council on Accreditation’s 2019 Innovative Practices Award celebrates LCFS’ Regenerations program as an example of successful innovation in the human services field. Sadly, Illinois has struggled with hundreds of older foster youth in correctional and detention centers that are past their release dates, but stay in jail because they have no place to go. Many times these youth were ...

LCFS Recognized by HRC Foundation for LGBTQ Inclusion Efforts

June 26, 2019

Today, Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois (LCFS), the second largest private provider of child welfare services in Illinois, including foster care and adoption, proudly announced that it is being recognized in Celebrating Everyday Change-Makers in Child Welfare — a first-of-its-kind report highlighting more than 70 child welfare agencies across the country that partnered with the HRC Foundation’s All ...

LCFS has a dream

January 17, 2019

Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois was chosen as one of eight member organizations to participate in Lutheran Services in America’s Results Innovation Lab. As a whole, LCFS is strongly committed to the elimination of institutional racism and disparate outcomes for children, youth and families of color. Through the agency’s participation in the Innovation Lab, it intends by the ...