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The Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition, a proud member of the United Way, is a non-profit agency that strives to create permanency in every foster child's life by recruiting and supporting foster/adoptive homes in the Metropolitan community.

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Annie Malone Children & Family Service Center:  Since 1888, our mission at Annie Malone has been to care for children in need - and it remains so to this day. However today, the Annie Malone Children and Family Service Center offers a range of programs and community services far beyond those available in our early days.

Bringing Families Together: (BFT) was created in 1999 with the goal of providing quality social services to children and families.

Boys and Girls Town of Missouri: At Boys & Girls Town, our mission is to improve the lives of children with emotional and behavioral problems through superior, family-focused services.

Catholic Charities, Inc. Diocese of Springfield in Illinois: The Mission of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois is "to extend to all the healing and empowering presence of Jesus."

Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Saint Louis: Catholic Charities serves a wide range of disadvantaged populations: dependent, abused and neglected children; unemployed or homeless adults; parents and children requiring family counseling; people struggling as the result of drug abuse or alcoholism; senior citizens with special needs; and many more. Our goal is to break the cycle of poverty, abuse and neglect. We empower people to make permanent changes in their lives leading to self-sufficient, dignified lifestyles.

Catholic Social Services of Southern Illinois: Catholic Social Services (CSS) provides comprehensive adoption services, regular, treatment, and specialized foster care, the Don Bosco Children’s Center, individual, family and school counseling, senior employment services, senior assisted living management, and referral services throughout Southern Illinois.

Children's Home and Aid Society of Illinois: Saving children’s lives, moving families forward and going where the need is greatest – that’s what Children’s Home Aid is all about. Since 1883, we have been providing help, hope and opportunity to children and families in need. Each year Children’s Home Aid serves more than 40,000 children and families in Illinois by helping them overcome overwhelming obstacles such as poverty, abuse and neglect.

Children's Home Society of Missouri: The Children's Home Society of Missouri has been providing social services to children and families for over 100 years. A multi-faceted social service agency, the Home provides adoption services including traditional agency adoptions, independently facilitated adoptions, international adoptions and adoption services for older children, sibling groups and children with a variety of special needs.

Citizens for Missouri's Children: To advocate the rights and well-being of all Missouri's children, especially those with the greatest need.We believe that all children in the state should benefit from public policies that guarantee they are protected and secure in nurturing environments, allowing them to thrive and grow to their greatest potential.

Court Appointed Special Advocates of St. Louis County: (CASA) of St. Louis County believes that all children have the right to safe, healthy, stable homes, free from abuse and neglect. Our mission is to provide a trained community CASA volunteer to abused and neglected children in the St. Louis County Family Court.

Downey Side: It is our purpose to work in partnership with the government as a licensed adoption agency to place America's waiting children who otherwise would remain homeless.

Edgewood Children's Center: Our agency is committed to the care and treatment of children with severe emotional, behavioral and communication disorders, particularly those who are autistic or diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome.

Epworth Children & Family Services: For 140 years, Epworth Children & Family Services has provided our community with essential youth development services that have helped thousands of children overcome severe emotional and behavioral challenges.

Evangelical Children's Home : In 1858, Reverend Louis Nollau accepted the first child in the German Protestant Orphan's Home. His goal was to offer children a place where they could heal and feel safe. Today, 149 years later and now known as Evangelical Children's Home, we are still striving to keep Reverend Nollau's dream alive. Daily, it is our mission to "assist children, youth and their families in their quest for health and wholeness through faithful, professional services.

Family Care Center, Inc.: Family Care Center strives to provide a variety of services to help individuals and their families. These services include psychological evaluations, counseling, psychiatric help for adults, tutoring, educational advocacy, AuPairs, Adoption and Guardianship studies.

Family Resource Center: Family Resource Center (FRC) provides supportive care to approximately 10,000 children and parents in the St. Louis area each year. Our programs help kids heal from the trauma of abuse and neglect, and strengthen families through therapeutic, educational, support and advocacy services.

Family to Family: Community based, Family-to-Family links families with more to families with much less. Once a month each sponsor family prepares a box of non-perishable foods for shipment to “their” needy family in another part of the country.

Hoyleton Youth and Family Services: To enable all people, young and old alike, to realize the quality of life that God intends. This will be accomplished with the compassion of Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit, reaching out to meet the physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual and social needs of those with whom we journey.

Illinois Dept. of Children and Family Services : The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services provides child welfare services in Illinois. The Department's organization includes the Divisions of Child Protection, Placement Permanency, Field Operations, Guardian & Advocacy, Clinical Practice & Professional Development, Service Intervention, Budget & Finance, Planning & Performance Management, and Communications.

Lutheran Family & Children's Services : Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri aids families, children and individuals by providing adoption, counseling, education and resources to assist with physical and emotional needs.

Lutheran Children & Family Services of IL: Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois is a leading provider of a comprehensive range of high-quality community-based and innovative social services responsive to the needs of children and families.

MBCH Children & Family Ministries: Committed to finding families for children who need care outside their own homes. Children now entering out-of-home care need special help and understanding because they may have experienced the pain of physical abuse, sexual abuse and/or neglect.

Missouri Alliance for Children and Families: Missouri Alliance for Children and Families facilitates planning and service implementation through a family-driven, multi-disciplinary team approach for families with children who have serious emotional problems.

Missouri Department of Social Services: Help keep families together and ensure health and safety for Missouri children.

St. Louis Crisis Nursery:  Committed to the prevention of child abuse and
neglect and provides emergency intervention, respite care and support to families in crisis.

St. Vincent Home for Children: As a residential treatment center, St. Vincent Home provides care 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for abused and neglected children with moderate to severe emotional problems, behavior disorders, and/or learning disabilities.

The Adoption Exchange: Nationwide 114,000 children wait in foster care for adoption. A majority of them are children of minority heritage who face significant developmental, medical, behavioral and/or emotional challenges.  Many are members of sibling groups; most are school-aged. The Adoption Exchange works to make the connection between families who adopt and these children who wait

Urban Behavioral: Urban Behavioral Healthcare Institute provides quality behavioral healthcare programs and services that address the unique needs of children, adults and families residing in urban settings

Volunteers of America of Illiniois: Dedicated to supporting and empowering people of all ages to create positive and lasting change in their lives.

Youth In Need: Believing in the power of potential, Youth In Need's mission is to provide nurturing environments and educational opportunities so children, youth and families will find safety and hope, achieve their goals, and build a positive future. 

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