Illinois DCFS

November is Adoption Awareness Month. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is launching "What’s Your Connection?".As part of the…

October is Infant Safe Sleep Awareness Month.It’s an annual campaign to inform parents how to protect their babies from suffocation. Deborah Lopez is a…

Illinois' Department of Children and Family Services plans to put all 16,000 children in its custody on Medicaid health insurance. But at a hearing...

Nearly 100 Illinois children who died within the last two years were involved with the state’s Department of Children and Family Services. That’s...

Lawmakers are urging the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to be more transparent with the public.State Rep. Sara Feigenholtz,…

An Illinois law passed in 2014 was supposed to ensure that families no longer have to give up custody of their children in order to get them necessary…

Blind parents in Illinois are guaranteed certain rights under new state guidelines.Deborah Kent Stein is with the National Federation of the Blind of…

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner has appointed Beverly (BJ) Walker as Director of the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). Walker has…

A progress report filed in federal court shows that Illinois' child welfare agency has slowly made "incremental" improvements, but concerns linger about…

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has named Lise Spacapan interim director of the Department of Children and Family Services, pending a national search for a new…