Let It Be Us Expands Efforts to Help Children with Special Needs in Foster Care with Multi-Year Foglia Foundation Gift

  • Foster Care , Latest News
  • March 21, 2022
Gift Allows Organization to Recruit Foster Parents, Match Children with Foster Homes Let It Be Us, focused on helping children and teens in Illinois foster care, today announced expanded efforts to help children with special needs, funded by the Foglia Family Foundation. Funded with a multi-year gift, the initiative covers the recruitment of foster and […]
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Let It Be Us Speaks: Interview with Illinois State Representative Lakesia Collins

  • Foster Care , Latest News
  • February 21, 2022
An interview with Illinois State Representative Lakesia Collins by Let It Be Us Director of Placement Support & Licensing Coaching Vanessa Baie I had the wonderful opportunity to speak with Rep. Lakesia Collins, Illinois House Representative for the 9th District. Rep. Collins has a personal history with the foster care system in Illinois and is […]
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Let It Be Us Responds to Illinois DCFS Needs with Innovative Programming for Foster Care

  • Foster Care , Latest News
  • February 1, 2022
Learn about how Let It Be Us’s innovative programming helps children in Illinois Foster Care Let It Be Us, an Illinois licensed child welfare agency, has developed innovative programming for foster care that responds to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Service’s (DCFS) urgent needs regarding child welfare. Focusing on targeted foster parent recruitment […]
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Why It’s Important to Foster or Adopt a Teen from Illinois Foster Care

  • Foster Care , Latest News
  • January 18, 2022
Learn about the importance of fostering & adopting a teen from Illinois Foster Care In the state of Illinois, and throughout the country, there are many teens in need of families through foster care.  Some need short-term homes, some need long-term or adoptive homes, and some need homes that will care for them not knowing […]
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What You Need to Know About Foster Care & Human Trafficking

  • Foster Care , Latest News
  • January 11, 2022
Educating on Human Trafficking & Foster Care during National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month this January Human Trafficking is a version of modern-day slavery. It is a crime where someone is forced or coerced into being entirely controlled by another person (someone that is referred to as a “pimp or “john”) and used for […]
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New support for LGBTQIA+ Kids in Foster Care

  • Foster Care , Latest News
  • December 14, 2021
Training to support LGBTQIA+ Kids in Foster Care Hi, foster care community! Let It Be Us is a proud supporter of LGBTQIA+ kids in foster care and we want to keep you informed about a new policy requirement recently created by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to support LGBTQIA+ kids in foster […]
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WGN Radio: Let It Be Us matches children with their adoptive or foster families

  • Press
  • November 29, 2021
Let It Be Us Executive Director and Founder Susan McConnell and Director of Foster Care Licensing and Placement Support Vanessa Baie join John Williams to explain how their program works. About Let It Be Us Let It Be Us is a nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the landscape of foster care and adoption in Illinois. […]
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Let It Be Us Helps Foster Care Caseworkers Make Faster Child Placement

  • Latest News
  • October 4, 2021
Let It Be Us has teamed up with Actovos to help foster care caseworkers make faster child placement The Let It Be Us Placement Support Program works daily to locate foster homes available for children, including those in emergent need and those who are challenging to place.  By adding the new Actovos texting technology to […]
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Barrington Area Community Foundation Awards Grant for Children in Foster Care

  • Latest News
  • August 12, 2021
Barrington Area Community Foundation Awards Grant for Children in Foster Care As a pilot project that can be built as a model to expand to other communities, the Barrington Area Community Foundation has funded an awareness campaign and foster parent recruitment campaign managed by Let It Be Us, a 501(c)3 that identifies, recruits, and trains […]
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#GivingTuesday – Foster Care and Adoption – We Need You

  • Foster Care
  • November 30, 2020
#GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement, unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world.  GivingTuesday will kick off the generosity season this year by inspiring people to give back on December 1st and throughout the year. Consider becoming one of US at Let It Be Us by supporting children […]
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The Family of Joan Morrissey Reese Establishes a Legacy in Her Memory and For Her Love of Helping Others, Especially Children

  • Latest News
  • July 16, 2020
The family of Joan Morrissey Reese has established a legacy fund in her memory for her love of helping others, especially children, with Let It Be Us, a nonprofit dedicated to children in Illinois foster care. Joan passed away peacefully and surrounded by her family on May 14 from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease.  She was […]
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Let It Be Us recruits and serves foster and adoptive parents from all communities and our work is free of all forms of discrimination.  All decisions regarding recruiting foster and adoptive parents, and helping children, will be made without discrimination on the basis of race, color, national original, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, sexual identity, gender identity or gender expression, religion, age, pregnancy, covered veteran status, political ideology, genetic information, marital status, or any other factor that is protected from discrimination. Individuals will be recruited based on their ability and desire to be a foster and/ or adoptive parent. We serve all children and believe all deserve a loving home.

Let It Be Us is proud to be recognized by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) All Children All Families program as a Building Towards Inclusion child welfare agency. Let It Be Us believes LGBTQIA+ identifying foster parents and children in care deserve respect and love, and we do our best to show that in our work.

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