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Learn to Be a Foster or Adoptive Parent with Help from Let It Be Us
Approximately 18,000 children are in Illinois Foster Care…
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Let It Be Us Celebrates 5 Years of Loving Children in Illinois Foster Care
Five years ago, Susan McConnell had an idea…
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Support Illinois Children in Foster Care During 2nd Let It Be Us “Be Mine” Celebration at Chicago’s Tortoise Supper Club
Barrington’s Let It Be Us invites you to…
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A Let It Be Us Christmas Story | Rudolph the Hedgehog Finds a New Family
The joy of Christmas can best be seen…
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Adoptive Brothers Host Hot Cocoa Stand for Children in Foster Care & Let It Be Us
Two brothers and a friend spent Sunday afternoon…
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From Group Home to Forever Family: A Grateful Teenager Shares Her Story
One teen’s experience as a child in foster…
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Growing Up in Foster Care Inspires Mom’s Mission to Coach Waiting Parents
Having spent most of her childhood in foster…
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Protected: Teacher Spends Summer Becoming a Mom
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From Fostering to Fatherhood
With Father’s Day approaching Peter Yankala, owner of…
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A Mother’s Gift – Welcoming Two Sisters in Foster Care
After attending an Adoption & Foster Care Information…
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Giving Our Children in Foster Care the Family they Deserve
It has been a few months since two…
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Forever Changed as a First Time Foster Mom
Just six weeks after two young siblings arrived…
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Becoming Foster Parents to Our “Instant Family”
Thanks to the work of Barrington non-profit Let…
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