DCFS Features
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2025 DCFS Scholarship Application Now OpenThursday, December 12, 2024
The 2025 DCFS scholarship application for current and former youth in care opens January 1. Students can create an account now and log in beginning January 1 to apply. Please encourage 2025 high school graduates and current college students to apply and submit their application early to allow time for the DCFS Office of Education and Transition Services to confirm completeness and request additional documentation from the student if necessary.
The deadline to apply is March 31, 2025.
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FY25 Budget Proposal OverviewWednesday, February 21, 2024
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Office of the Inspector General Report to the Governor and General Assembly (Jan. 2024)Friday, December 22, 2023
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Illinois DCFS and the SAFE Model videoThursday, March 23, 2023
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Illinois Department of Children & Family Services Family First Prevention Services Act Title IV-E Prevention Plan (10/26/21)Tuesday, June 14, 2022
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Child Welfare Medicaid Managed Care Implementation Advisory WorkgroupFriday, June 10, 2022
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DCFS Academic Internship, University Partnership, and Shadow ProgramWednesday, June 08, 2022
News Update
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Edwardsville, IL – Thirty children in foster care will join their forever families when their adoptions are finalized this morning at the Madison County Courthouse in Edwardsville.
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Rockford, IL – Thirteen children in foster care will join their forever families when their adoptions are finalized Saturday morning at the Winnebago County Criminal Justice Center in Rockford. Similar events are taking place at the Richard J. Daley Center in Chicago and the Williamson County Courthouse today and at hundreds of locations across the country in celebration of National Adoption Day.
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Chicago, IL – Ten children in foster care will join their forever families when their adoptions are finalized this morning at the Richard J. Daley Center in Chicago. Similar events are taking place at the Williamson County Courthouse in Marion today, the Winnebago County Criminal Justice Center in Rockford tomorrow and hundreds of locations across the country in celebration of National Adoption Day.
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Marion, IL – Thirty children in foster care will join their forever families when their adoptions are finalized this morning at the Williamson County Courthouse in Marion.