Aunt Martha’s Humboldt Park Clinic
1044 North Francisco Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA
Kaleidoscope
1340 S Damen Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
The Children’s Place Association
700 N Sacramento Blvd, Chicago, IL, United States
New Moms, Inc.
2845 W McLean Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Little City Foster Care & Adoption Program
700 N Sacramento Blvd, Chicago, IL, United States
La Familia Unida
3047 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL, United States
TEECH Foundation
1750 W 103rd St, Chicago, IL, United States
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope is a nonprofit, charitable organization that helps Chicago youth cope with the consequences of abuse and neglect within their family system.
Struggling with complex emotional, physical and medical needs, kids referred to Kaleidoscope face incredible challenges that require resources and support. The team at Kaleidoscope is committed to alleviating these obstacles for kids, believing all youth deserve the chance to reach their highest potential.
Kaleidoscope’s mission is to serve abused and neglected families unconditionally through individualized, family-centered, community-focused care. Our vision is that every child has the chance to lead an independent, self-sufficient, productive, and happy life.
The Children’s Place Association
Building a secure and hopeful today so children facing health issues and poverty succeed tomorrow. That’s the promise of The Children’s Place Association.
We help children overcome illness and extreme poverty so they can lead healthy, productive lives. Opened in 1991 in response to the HIV/AIDS crisis, our Chicago-based organization now serves children and families challenged by a wide range of conditions. Our programs include Early Childhood Education, 24-hour Nursing, Family Housing, Supportive Services, Foster/Adoptive Care and Summer Camp. We serve more than 350 Chicago-area children and caregivers annually, and our international program helps 300 HIV/AIDS-affected children in Haiti.
New Moms, Inc.
New Moms equips struggling, impoverished adolescent parents (aged 13-24) and their children with the personal and workforce development tools they will need, to permanently change their life stories from chronic dependence on society, to economic independence and family stability.
We offer a loving, safe and stable environment, while providing:
- Individualized case management;
- Supportive housing;
- Career-readiness, parenting, life skills and literacy training; and
- Age-appropriate children’s programming with routine screenings for signs of abuse and neglect.
Our Mission
The mission of New Moms, Inc. is to enable, empower and equip at-risk adolescent parents and their children through services and mentoring based on Christian values.
Our Vision
The vision of New Moms, Inc. is to be the model for an effective, efficient and enduring ministry that breaks the cycle of poverty among at-risk adolescent parents and their children.
Our Expertise
New Moms has over 30 years’ experience, specializing in outreach and services to what most consider an “unreachable” population– homeless and near-homeless adolescent parents (aged 13-24) and their children (birth-age 5).
Based in Chicago, our staff has the community network, collaborative relationships, experience, and culturally-competent outreach expertise that make them uniquely qualified to provide the assistance these high-risk families require.
We have a multi-cultural staff of 28:
- 97% female
- 13 Anglo
- 14 African-American
- 2 Hispanic
- 7 speak Spanish
- 8 live or have lived in our immediate community
- 8 were themselves teen moms or children of teen moms.
New Moms is a 501(c)3 registered agency.
Little City Foster Care & Adoption Program
Address: 700 N Sacramento Blvd Suite 201
Chicago, IL 60612
Little City Foster Care & Adoption Program
Little City’s Center for Family & Community-Based Services provides services to children in foster care who have been identified by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (IDCFS) as having been abused or neglected. As part of our mission, Little City is committed to recruiting and supporting foster/adoptive families to provide loving homes for children with autism and other intellectual and developmental disabilities.
We are searching for welcoming homes and loving parents regardless of age, race, creed, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender-identification, income or education level.
Why choose Little City to become a foster/adoptive parent?
- For 20 years, Little City’s foster care/adoption program has provided innovative, individualized and community-based treatment to our children and their families
- The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) recognizes Little City as the first foster care and adoption agency in Illinois to obtain cultural competence in serving the LGBT community.
- Over 90% of children living in Little City foster or adoptive homes remain in the same home
- Little City hosts customized pre-licensing training to all prospective foster/adoptive parents
- We offer comprehensive case management services and treatment
- An extensive foster parent to foster parent support and mentoring network
TEECH Foundation
