Leadership Will Continue to Build Organization’s Legacy in Foster Care and Adoption and Activate Program for Children with Special Healthcare Needs Let It Be Us has appointed Vince Foglia as the organization’s
At Let It Be Us we’re getting ready for our first virtual event of the new year, Foster Care 101, a free Zoom session from 7-8:30 on Tuesday, January 12th. We’ll have
Approximately 18,000 children are in Illinois Foster Care and Let It Be Us is on a mission to find families for these children in need of foster and/or adoptive families. From 7-8:30 p.m.
Five years ago, Susan McConnell had an idea to help the thousands of children in Illinois foster care find a family. A mother of four with three children through adoption and past
Barrington’s Let It Be Us invites you to join their second annual Be Mine celebration to support children awaiting adoption from foster care from 7 to 11 p.m. on Friday, February 28th.
The joy of Christmas can best be seen through the eyes of a child. These two brothers who joined their family through adoption from foster care start their Santa story with giggles
Two brothers and a friend spent Sunday afternoon hosting a Hot Cocoa & Cookies stand in Barrington’s Oaksbury neighborhood to help Let It Be Us find families for children in foster care.
One teen’s experience as a child in foster care pivots at a serendipitous encounter with a person who was willing to listen and take a chance. Such recognition changed the trajectory of
Having spent most of her childhood in foster care, Michelle Prickett chose not to just sit back and enjoy a suburban life with her husband and four children. She became a Foster and
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With Father’s Day approaching Peter Yankala, owner of Phillips Men’s Wear in Barrington, is answering customer inquiries on what gift to give dad this year. In our latest Voices of Adoption profile, the father
After attending an Adoption & Foster Care Information Fair hosted by Barrington nonprofit child welfare agency, Let It Be Us, the Gaete family of five recently expanded to include two young girls
It has been a few months since two siblings in Illinois foster care arrived home to their new parents Melissa and Tee. Frustrated by infertility, the Barrington area couple attended an Adoption &
Just six weeks after two young siblings arrived in their home, Melissa & Tee are getting used to their lives as foster parents. After struggling with infertility for years, Let It Be Us
Thanks to the work of Barrington non-profit Let it Be Us, a version of the movie Instant Family is playing out locally with an adoption story that is unfolding as we speak.