Foster Care & Adoption Service

Kemmerer Village provides community-based services for children and adolescents, ages 0 – 21 years. For a variety of reasons, these young people need an alternative home environment with the added support of professional casework, and case management services. Our various programs are accredited by the Council on Accreditation and licensed by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.

The Kemmerer Village Community Services staff performs the licensing and ongoing monitoring of the foster homes in which our children are placed. Our foster parents undergo thorough screening via an application process, background checks, and Home Studies. Our foster parents also receive extensive training prior to having their first child placed with them. We currently provide these services to over 100 foster homes, spread throughout the counties of: Christian, Shelby, Montgomery, Fayette, Macon and Moultrie. Our professional staff and foster parents are dedicated to, and experienced at, providing a safe, nurturing home environment allowing the opportunity for the child to flourish.

Kemmerer Village offers the following types of community-based services:

  • Foster Care - A warm, caring, community live-in home environment offered to Kemmerer Village children by trained, caring foster parents under the supervision of Kemmerer Village

  • Specialized Foster Care - Community family home environment offered to troubled Kemmerer Village children by highly skilled foster parents under the supervision of Kemmerer Village

  • Supervised Independent Living - Community supervised independent living program to assist older Kemmerer Village youth prepare for adult independent living

  • Foster Care Support and Advocacy - Short-term intense follow up support offered to children and families leaving Kemmerer Village foster care programs

  • Relative Foster Care - Supervision and support of Kemmerer Village children placed in foster care with child's relatives

  • Life Skills - Community, family foster parents home environment program offered to older Kemmerer Village youth to learn adult life skills in preparation for independent living