childbridge community services: Specialized Foster Care & Adoption

There is nothing like the love of a family environment to bring smiles to everyone’s faces.

Little City Foundation’s ChildBridge Community services provide specialized foster care and adoption services to children in substitute care and to children who are Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) wards. (Wards of the State are children who are without a guardian.)

As a subcontractor with the State of Illinois DCFS, we receive referrals of specialized children who are between the ages of 0-21 (with majority of children eight years old).

We serve the most vulnerable among us.

Our children often have global developmental disabilities (e.g., gross motor, fine motor, speech and communication skills are delayed), autism, reactive attachment disorder (difficulties making meaningful attachments with caregivers and other individuals), post-traumatic stress disorder, cerebral palsy, shaken baby syndrome, or sexually reactive behaviors.

Committed to providing genuine care and concern for the children and families we serve, ChildBridge Community services offer comprehensive case management services and treatment.

We support foster parents who open up their hearts and their homes to our society's most vulnerable children giving them opportunities to live a meaningful life.

Little City also provides pre-licensing training (unlike any other non-profit organization) equipping foster families with what they need to be successful with their new child.

These trainings contain modules that help foster parents understand the child’s treatment team, educate foster parents on the needs of children in the program, and provide additional information and resources. In addition to classroom trainings, prospective foster parents also participate in hands-on training allowing us to identify the best match for a child.