Alliance Human Services, Inc. provides foster care services to children and youth who have emotional or behavioral disorders, developmental disabilities, are medically fragile, or are in the juvenile justice system.  Most often, the children we serve have been served unsuccessfully in homes in other agencies, or come from more restrictive settings, such as residential schools.  Currently, we are serving about 1,100 children

in 5 states.  In order to support children and youth with significant challenges we recruit, train, and provide

on-going counseling and case coordination to talented and caring adults who serve as foster parents.  Our foster parents provide homes that are safe, and supportive.  We have approximately 1,000 licensed homes.

We aggressively recruit foster parents from a diverse population.  We focus on carefully assessing the strengths and needs of our children and making excellent matches with skilled foster parents.  Our foster parents are experienced and compassionate.  We are able to support their efforts by ensuring that the children and youth are receiving all other services they need for their success, such as appropriate educational supports, personal or group counseling or therapy, and other case coordination services. 

In addition, we assist foster parents in obtaining respite so that they can be refreshed while the children

are safe and having their needs met.

We have developed and implemented systems for assuring quality care.  In addition, we are regularly collecting outcome data to evaluate our effectiveness and to help us make program improvements.  Specifically, we evaluate our ability to ensure that children and youth in our care remain safe from abuse

and neglect.  We also measure the degree to which children are moved from one home to another, that is the stability of our placements.  In addition, we determine our success with meeting children's permanency goals, such as returning home or being adopted.  Finally, we analyze the degree to which our children and youth and foster parents are satisfied with the services we provide.

Alliance operates its human services programs through its subsidiaries:

Alliance Human Services, Inc. (AHS) serves California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia

providing specialized foster care services to children and adolescents.

Illinois adoption services - please click here to download the Adoption policy operating procedures

Specialized Foster Care Management Organization Link:

The MENTOR Network www.thementornetwork.com