Fox 32 Chicago Newsbreak: Let It Be Us Founder and Executive Director Dr. Susan A. McConnell with Anita Blanton on Let It Be Us DCFS Partnership
- Press
- March 25, 2025
Let It Be Us Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Susan A. McConnell, appeared on Fox 32 Chicago Newsbreak in an interview by Anita Blanton regarding the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) partnership with Let It Be Us. Let It Be Us recently secured a significant grant from DCFS to manage the Adoption Listing Service and the Heart Gallery of Illinois, engines of success for Illinois foster care adoptions.
See the interview of Let It Be Us Founder and Executive Director Dr. Susan A. McConnell with Fox 32 Chicago Newsbreak Host Anita Blanton:
See the Heart Gallery of Illinois here: https://letitbeus.org/heart-gallery-of-illinois/
Obtain a foster care license with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) here: https://letitbeus.org/adoption-listing-service-family-registration-form-unlicensed/
Illinois licensed foster parents register with the Adoption Listing Service here: https://letitbeus.org/adoption-listing-service-family-registration-form-licensed/
Dr. Susan A. McConnell is the Founder and Executive Director of Let It Be Us, an Illinois licensed child welfare agency with the mission of providing collaborative, innovative solutions of effective recruitment and placement within Illinois foster care and adoption. Susan has an MBA from DePaul University and a Doctorate Degree in Social Work from the University of Southern California, where her work focused on permanency within child welfare. She is the Chair of the Permanency Committee of the Illinois Statewide Foster Care Advisory Council, appointed by the Director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) in 2017. She is also an adoptive parent with over 30 years of open adoption experience. She can be reached at susanmcconnell@letitbeus.org.
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.
