Let It Be Us
Individual and Family ServicesIllinois, United States11-50 Employees
Let It Be Us is an Illinois-licensed child welfare agency and a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that focuses on recruitment, matching, and placement to support foster care and adoption. The organization develops and delivers tailored resources for each child referred, creating a pipeline of prospective foster and adoptive parents and facilitating connections with caseworkers and state agencies. Its services aim to address the needs of youth in emergent or challenging placement situations as well as foster and adoptive families, leveraging a broad outreach to licensed parents and selected locations and demographics. Based in Barrington, Illinois, Let It Be Us operates within the child welfare field and emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusion in its recruitment and placement work, including specialized foster care options and an adoption listings service aligned with state processes. The organization also maintains programs such as the Emergency Placement Referral Program, Foster Parent Recruitment Program, Adoption Listing Service of Illinois, and the Heart Gallery of Illinois, and has engaged in recent partnerships and leadership changes to support its mission.