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What Does The State Provide To The Foster Parents When They Are Placed With A Child?

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What Does The State Provide To The Foster Parents When They Are Placed With A Child?

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receive a monthly check to cover the child's food, clothing and personal allowance.

Medical care.

Education services.

Personal support.

Support from DCFS.

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What information is provided about the birth parents? Would my child be able to find their birth parent later in life?

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What information is provided about the birth parents? Would my child be able to find their birth parent later in life?

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Only if the biological parents want the child to be able to find them later in life then will the child be able to find their birth parents.  The families non-identifying social, medical and mental health information will always be shared in an agency-assisted adoption and may be shared with adopting parents in private adoptions but no other information unless the parents allow it.

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Yes there is an adoption registry.

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Do I have to pay for the expenses of the birth parent?

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Do I have to pay for the expenses of the birth parent?

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Agency Assisted Adoptions (when birth parents work with an Illinois licensed child welfare agency) Examples of financial assistance allowed when provided by a licensed child welfare agency are payment of medical and hospital expenses, social services, living expenses (for example: rent, food, clothing) and counseling.

Private Adoptions (when birth parents work directly with attorneys and an adoptive family) Hospital and medical expenses may be paid. With prior permission from the court, living expenses (food, lodging and clothing) may also be paid for the duration of the pregnancy and for up to thirty days after the birth of the child.

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What Are The Requiredments To Be A Foster Parent?

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What Are The Requiredments To Be A Foster Parent?

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Participate in a home inspection and social assessment.

Complete 27 hours of training focused on foster care and the needs of children who are in foster care.

Complete a criminal background check of all household members.

Be financially stable.

Complete a health screening that includes verification that immunizations are up-to-date.

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In Illinois you may adopt a child if you are at least 21 years old. You may be married, divorced or single. If you are separated, you must have lived apart from your spouse for 12 months or more. It is not necessary for you to own your own home, only that you have enough space for your new child.

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Can the birth parent(s ask for the baby back?

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Can the birth parent(s ask for the baby back?

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No the parent or parents can not get their child back once adoptions are final

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Being stable, mature, dependable, and flexible.

Having the ability to advocate for children.

No Criminal record

has to be 21 years or older.