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Provides information, advocacy, referrals, and support related to adoption and foster care services. Services include expectant parent advocacy and support for individuals who are pregnant, domestic adoption services, post-adoption services, counseling referrals for children who have experienced trauma, and assistance with foster home placement. Services may include connecting individuals and children in need of alternative living arrangements with licensed private family foster homes, recruiting, training, certifying, and monitoring foster care placements, and providing information, referrals, and support to individuals and families involved in foster care.

Offers services to support and strengthen the lives of adoptive parents, adult adopted persons, and birth parents by providing compassionate profiles, searches, and intermediary services.

Services include individual and family counseling by request from anyone involved in an adoption plan made through Catholic Charities at any time, a mutual consent registry, background histories and non-identifying profiles, and post adoption search and intermediary service in the form of indirect and direct contact between interested parties.

Provides family-centered assessment, intervention, and skill-building services through the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Services help families address issues that may place children at risk of abuse or neglect. Families may be referred through a child abuse assessment or juvenile court order, or caregivers may voluntarily request assistance from HHS.

Recruits and prepares adoptive families. Offers services for identified adoptions, foster care adoptions, and post placement services.

Provides contractual home studies for domestic and international adoptions.

Provides a licensed child placing agency, finding adoptive homes for both infants and special needs children.

Traditional Foster Care for children ages 0-18 whose families are unable or unwilling to meet the minimum standards of parents as defined by the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).

Specialized Foster Care provides intensive services to behaviorally challenged children ages 3-18. Relative Foster Care allows children who need to be placed out of their home to be placed with relatives.

Aftercare Program is specially designed to assist children and their families upon their return home from living with a foster family.

Other services include foster parent recruitment, adoption conversions.

Telephone support for grandparents/relatives raising grandchildren.

Support group offered through the Sioux City office.

Virtual Support groups are available.

Provides accurate information on adoption, and lifelong support, so the family is successful in meeting the child’s best interest by offering the following services and resources:

Provides free and confidential pregnancy counseling for families, every step of the way; before, during, and after the birth of the child.

Assistance with making an adoption plan or parenting plan.

Parenting education. Support and education for baby's father on request.

Home studies for prospective adoptive parents.

Newborn care home for baby as a safe haven.

Out-of-home placement option for children and adolescents whose special needs hinder their success in a traditional foster care placement.

- Offers 30 hours of training, in-service training, professional consultation, 24 hour on call support services, respite services for foster parents, and performance evaluations.

- Foster parents are reimbursed for the child's basic needs, with an additional stipend for providing treatment.

Recruits and prepares adoptive families. Offers services for identified adoptions, foster care adoptions, and post placement services.

Provides contractual home studies for domestic and international adoptions.

Offers domestic, international, and interstate adoption programs for families wishing to adopt a child. A social worker will assess the family prior to adoption. Adoption competent therapy available for adopted children & teens, adult adoptee's, adoptive parents, birth parents, and families.

Traditional Foster Care for children ages 0-18 whose families are unable or unwilling to meet the minimum standards of parents as defined by the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).

Specialized Foster Care provides intensive services to behaviorally challenged children ages 3-18. Relative Foster Care allows children who need to be placed out of their home to be placed with relatives.

Aftercare Program is specially designed to assist children and their families upon their return home from living with a foster family.

Other services include foster parent recruitment, adoption conversions.

Works in partnership with the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services to recruit and equip families to provide safe, caring, temporary care for a child while the birth family works towards reunification. Note: Inquiries about a specific child being placed in home should be made directly to HHS at (877) 364-1112.

Provides consultation, information and referral services at all stages of the adoption process, and placement services for prospective adoptive families. 

Serves expecting families looking to place a child for adoption, including from unplanned pregnancies or older children, prospective foster families, families looking to adopt children, including international adoptions and children with special needs and families that have already adopted children.

Works in partnership with the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services to recruit and equip families to provide safe, caring, temporary care for a child while the birth family works towards reunification. Note: Inquiries about a specific child being placed in home should be made directly to HHS at (877) 364-1112.

Retention and recruitment of families who would like to adopt children through the child welfare system.

Assists adoptive families with the process of adoption. Adoption specialists available to provide support and guidance before, during, and after adoptions.

Adoption programs:

-- Domestic Identified Adoption: Prospective adoptive families and birth parents connect with each other directly or through an intermediary. LCFS can provide guidance to the prospective adoptive families.

-- Interstate Adoption: LCFS can assist prospective adoptive families in Illinois who identify prospective birth parents in another state. LCFS can also assist prospective adoptive families living outside of Illinois who have located expectant parents living in Illinois who are considering an adoption plan.

-- Adopting Children in Care: LCFS can assist prospective adoptive parents who are interested in adopting youth in care who are waiting for adoptive families.

-- International (Home Study Only) Adoption: LCFS can complete a home study for Illinois prospective adoptive parents who are working with a Hague-accredited placing agency.

Provides information, advocacy, referrals, and support related to adoption and foster care services. Services include expectant parent advocacy and support for individuals who are pregnant, domestic adoption services, post-adoption services, counseling referrals for children who have experienced trauma, and assistance with foster home placement. Services may include connecting individuals and children in need of alternative living arrangements with licensed private family foster homes, recruiting, training, certifying, and monitoring foster care placements, and providing information, referrals, and support to individuals and families involved in foster care.