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Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2024: Building Connected Communities

April 1, 2024

This April, we urge you to be aware of the ongoing crisis of campus sexual assault. The experience of sexual harm while in college creates unique struggles and challenges during a critical time in the lives of young students. Greenlight…

Greenlight Launches Kinship Care Program for Relatives Raising Relatives

March 21, 2024

Kinship Care What is ‘kinship care’? Sometimes, parents become unable to care for their children due to substance use, incarceration, financial struggles, lack of family planning, deportation, death, and more.  It’s at these times when relatives are asked to raise…

Greenlight Honors Black History Month

February 2, 2024

Greenlight Honors Black History Month February is Black History Month. Greenlight Family Services recognizes that black youth and families too often face greater challenges within the child welfare system. We are here to help. Love is the foundation of every…

Adoption Day 2023

November 20, 2023

Adoption Day 2023 On Friday, November 17, 2023, the sound of pitter-pattering steps filled the halls of the Circuit Court of Cook County. These happy feet belonged to the children of seven families appearing at court to finalize their forever…

Adoption vs Guardianship

September 15, 2023

Adoption vs Guardianship Adoption and guardianship are legal terms that are often used interchangeably, but they have distinct meanings and implications. The main difference revolves around whether or not you need to terminate the biological parents’ rights to their children….

Support for Intergenerational Families in Illinois

August 11, 2023

Back-to-School for Grandfamilies As the back-to-school season begins, it is essential to remember the thousands of grandparents across Illinois who are the caregivers that will be sending off their grandchildren to school. It is an important time to recognize the…

Adoption Through Foster Care

May 31, 2023

National Foster Care Month May is National Foster Care Month, a time to recognize the thousands of children and youth in foster care across the United States who are waiting for a loving, permanent home. According to the Department of…

Aging Unbound

May 15, 2023

Older Americans Month May is Older Americans Month, a time to celebrate and recognize the contributions of older adults in our communities. This year’s theme, “Aging Unbound,” encourages us to rethink aging and the possibilities that come along with it….

Honoring Legacies: Women’s History & National Social Work Month

March 17, 2023

March is Women’s History Month, National Social Work Month, and World Social Work Day is celebrated on March 21, 2023. Greenlight Family Services is proud to be a women-owned and women-run organization.100% of our senior leadership and 94% of Team…

New Beginnings: The Journey to Permanency

January 20, 2023

A Fresh Start At the beginning of the new year, you might have set some goals for yourself, decided to try out a hobby, or chosen a different career path. For some adults, this is the year they will embark…

Exciting Illinois Adoption Updates

November 30, 2022

Exciting Illinois Adoption Updates An Unforgettable Adoption Day To kickoff the Chicago Adoption Day festivities on Friday, November 18, 2022, Greenlight Family Services’ CEO Dr. Maria Nanos LCSW, Phd, joined Chief Judge Timothy Evans and Cook County Board President Toni…

Greenlight Counseling

September 16, 2022

Support Services for Campus Sexual Assault Survivors This fall, thousands of students have made their way to college campuses across Illinois. It is an exciting time filled with new classes and new friendships, but it is also a time of…

Sexual Assault Awareness Month

April 6, 2021

By: Elizabeth Meyer, Counseling Program Coordinator April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Greenlight Counseling is getting ready for a month of programming with our university partners. As most students remain remote, Greenlight will be celebrating SAAM online. We have…

Proudly Serving Central and Southern IL

February 22, 2021

By: Joan Hammond, Program Supervisor Greenlight Family Services opened its Springfield office in July 2019 to serve families who live in central and southern Illinois. Greenlight’s Springfield office employs Family Development Specialists who work with the Family Matters program and…

Clearing the Path to Healing for Survivors

January 21, 2021

By: Elizabeth Meyer, Counseling Program Coordinator Since 2004, Greenlight Counseling, formerly known as Porchlight Counseling Services, has been addressing the dangers and difficulties faced by women and men who have been sexually assaulted while on college campuses. Too often, survivors…

A Reflection on Change

January 20, 2021

On May 1, 2020, we changed our brand because we believe the name Greenlight Family Services better reflects the work that we do. Greenlight provides adoption, guardianship, post-adoption, and legal services that create and preserve families. It offers long term…

My Adoption Story

November 15, 2019

By Sarah Thompson, LCSW Why was I placed for adoption? Didn’t my birth parents love me enough to keep me? What did they look like? I asked myself these questions during my childhood in Western Nebraska, where I was raised….

Greenlight Family Services Partners With Wendy’s Wonderful Kids to Find Forever Families for Illinois Youth in Care

July 10, 2019

Since 2017, Greenlight Family Services has been designated by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption as an Illinois partner for Wendy’s Wonderful Kids, a signature program of the foundation that brings children waiting to be adopted from foster care one…

My Journey of Becoming an Adoptive Mom

February 14, 2019

“It Was Challenging, It Was Exciting, and It Was Worth It” As Told By Felicia Stratten Adoption begins in your heart. When Felicia Stratten and her husband Sean decided they wanted to expand their family, they envisioned adopting a 5-year-old…

Public Adoption and Why It’s So Important

January 29, 2019

By Katie Friend, MA Adoptions Listing Service and Inquiry Unit and Wendy’s Wonderful Kids Adoption Supervisor Katie Friend says after 25 years in social work, building trusting and genuine relationships with our most vulnerable youth is not only important but…

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