Chicago Parent: Meet the woman helping Illinois’ foster children find the families they deserve
- Press
- December 1, 2025
In this feature from Chicago Parent, founder and Executive Director Dr. Susan McConnell reflects on how Let It Be Us is reshaping foster care and adoption in Illinois – from recruiting and licensing foster/adoptive families to thoughtfully matching children with forever homes. The article highlights the real-life impact of Let It Be Us’s data-driven, compassionate approach to permanency for children in care.
About Let It Be Us
Let It Be Us is an Illinois 501(c)3 and licensed child welfare agency. The mission of Let It Be Us is to provide collaborative, innovative solutions of effective recruitment and placement within Illinois foster care and adoption. The Let It Be Us platform manages the Adoption Listing Service of Illinois and the Heart Gallery of Illinois, engines of success for Illinois foster care adoptions. The Let It Be Us vision is for all children in the Illinois child welfare system to achieve educational equity, employment equity, and overall well being through the incorporation of Let It Be Us Programming into statewide advancements in foster care and adoption recruitment and placement. For more information about Let It Be Us, visit www.letitbeus.org.
