Agency Rankings

In 1997, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services implemented a performance-based payment system to encourage child welfare agencies to increase the number of children placed in permanent homes.
Under this system, agencies must place 24 percent of the children assigned to them by DCFS in permanent settings, either reunified with their natural families, placed in adoptive homes or assigned to permanent guardians. Those that place less than 24 percent will not be given DCFS contracts to do foster care in the coming year.

Each year, the department ranks the agencies to let them know how their performance compared with that of their colleagues. For children placed with relatives, the top agency was able to place 51.5 percent of its children; the worst agency placed less than 3 percent. Among children placed with non-relatives, the top agency was able to place 58.2 percent of its children.

Agencies ranked by performance, from best to worst, for children placed in the homes of relatives.
Bethany Christian Services

Youth Empire Services

Evangelical Child and Family Agency

Reaching the Mark

ChildServ

Lakeside Community Committee

Human Resources Development Institute

Family Care of Illinois

Shelter, Inc.

Association House

Chicago Youth Centers

Catholic Charities of Archdioese, Chicago Department of Social Services

Lawrence Hall Youth Services

LifeLink/Bensenville Home Society

The Family Link, Inc.

Beatrice Caffrey

Children's Home and Aid Society of Illinois

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois

Unity Parenting and Counseling

Casa Central Social Services

Ada S. McKinley Community Service Inc.

DCFS -- 6B

Volunteers of America

Chicago Commons Association

Cental Baptist Children's Home

ABJ Community Services, Inc.

Cabrini-Green Youth and Family Services

YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago

Uhlich Children's Home

Universal Family Connection

Azusa Family Services

Jacob's Ladder, Inc.

Aunt Martha's Youth Service Center Inc.

South Central Community Services, Inc.

Centers for New Horizons Child Welfare

DCFS --6C
Generations
Lutheran Child and Family Services
PSI Services of Illinois, Inc.
DCFS-- 6D
Habilitative Systems
Youth Outreach
Chicago Child Care

Agencies ranked by performance, from best to worst, for children placed in non-relative homes.
AgeShelter Inc.

Centers for New Horizons Child Welfare

Uhlich Children's Home

Evangelical Child and Family Agency

Chicago Child Care

Central Baptist Children's Home

Bethany Christian

Cabrini-Green Youth and Family Services

Volunteers of America

Chicago Commons Association

ChildServ

PSI Services of Illinois, Inc.

LifeLink/Bensenville Home Society

Association House

Catholic Charities of Ardiocese, Chicago Department of Social Services

DCFS -- 6C

ABJ Community Services, Inc.

Lakeside Community Committee

Children's Home and Aid Society

Reaching the Mark

Generations

Unity Parenting and Counseling

Aunt Martha's Youth Service Center, Inc.

YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago

Metropolitan Area Council/Black Churches

DCFS -- 6B

DCFS -- 6D

Casa Central Social Services

Habilitative Systems

South Central Community Services, Inc.

Jacob's Ladder

Youth Empire Services

Lutheran Social Services of Illinois
Beatrice Caffrey
Lutheran Child & Family Services

Lawrence Hall Youth Services

Circle Family Care

Youth Outreach

Lydia Home

Westside Holistic Family Services

Ada S. McKinley Community Services, Inc.

Chicago Youth Centers

The Family Link

Family Care of Illinois

Kinara Community Services

Chicago Association for Retarded Citizens

Source: Illinois Department of Children and Family Services