Webster Cantrell Youth Advocacy
The mission of Webster Cantrell Youth Advocacy is to serve at-risk youth and families through a wide range of strength-based, trauma informed services. We believe that children best develop into productive adults in a supportive, physically and emotionally safe permanent home, and that a family represents the most desirable home environment. Our professional services facilitate family preservation and self-sufficiency.
Services and information
- Traditional Foster Care
- Specialized / Therapeutic Care
- Emergency Foster Care
- Respite Foster Care
- Adoption
Requirements to become a foster parent
You must meet minimum requirements to provide foster care for children in Illinois. To become a foster parent, you must:
- Be at least 21 years old
- Attend foster parent orientation
- Pass a background check
- Finish 30 hours of foster parent training
- Complete the Home Study
- Provide at least three references
- Clear a physical exam
- Maintain financial stability
Foster families must be able to provide a safe and comfortable home for a child. You must provide room for the child to have a bed and enough space for personal belongings.
Foster parents do not need to be married or have a partner. However, if married, couples must show a stable marriage of at least one year before they can foster a child in Illinois.
Foster parents need to meet a child's basic care needs, such as providing meals and clothing. Foster families must also support a foster child's education and assist them in developing social skills.
Contact the DCFS or a local licensed child-placing agency to learn more or begin the fostering approval process.
Ratings and Reviews
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Apr 06, 2023
Great staff!!!
Jan 28, 2023
A great organization that does phenomenal work for the community. I use to work there and miss it. The staff are so welcoming and helpful to each other.
Sep 27, 2022
Forced to complete parenting class when I've been a mother for 27years and the father has a no contact. It was a complete waste of my time and I don't understand why circumstances aren't evaluated rather than just saying every divorce requires it. No fools. Every divorce could probably use some therapy for healing but certainly didn't need someone telling me how to parent my children. On top of which,I work in health care, am a mandated reporter and have skills in early development learning ,speech ,and physical disabilities. But they don't think about that when u are just trying to rid yourself of abuse after 15years of hell! A couple of basic questions could've cleared all that up. Raised 5 children.,twins 28,16,14,11,laid one child to rest and welcomed a granchild,.....but they thought best to force me to pay and take a parenting class. What a joke!
Jul 24, 2022
Really Great Staff
Jun 28, 2022
Allowing these kids to come and go all night is unacceptable. Yes , they have rights but so do do the owners of property and vehicles that they are breaking into.I have been victimized twice!