Professional Foster Parenting (PFP)

Professional Foster Parenting invites you to open your home and your heart to a child who needs a loving home. Our children and youth have experienced loss, grief, abuse, and/or neglect. Through our foster parenting program, they have the opportunity to live healthy, full lives.  We need your help!

UCAN is actively recruiting foster parents. Won't you consider joining us? The state of Illinois sets basic requirements for individuals or families wishing to become foster parents. UCAN ensures that all our foster parents are best suited for the children and youth we place in their homes.

• Applicants must be at least 21 years of age
• Applicants may be single or married
• Applicants must have sufficient household income to suitably care for children in their homes, to be supplemented by a monthly stipend
• Applicants must be in good physical and mental health

• Applicants must be law-abiding citizens

Above all, UCAN seeks foster parents who can make the commitment to provide quality, loving care for troubled children and youth.

Here are some of the ways that UCAN's Professional Foster Parenting Program supports our foster parents...

• UCAN's Professional Foster Parent treatment team provides case management, therapeutic, educational and behavioral supports to the family  
• UCAN advocates for foster parents' needs
• UCAN provides volunteers and mentors for our youth
• UCAN offers on-going foster parent training and support groups

For more information about Professional Foster Parenting or becoming a foster parent, please click here.