CHAMPAIGN COUNTY (Chambana Today) – November has been declared Adoption Awareness Month by Illinois Governer JB Pritzker. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is celebrating families who have adopted 19,347 children over the past decade.
Courtrooms across the state are finalizing adoptions during special Adoption Day celebrations on November 22 in Chicago and Marion, November 23 in Rockford, and December 27 in Edwardsville.
Last fiscal year 2,184 Illinois children were adopted into permanent, loving families. Today there are 18,850 youth in care waiting for permanent homes. For more information about becoming an adoptive parent, visit dcfs.illinois.gov and click on “Loving Homes” then click “Become a Foster or Adoptive Parent.”