“Keeping the Promise”
Are you a parent with an adopted child under 18 in your home in need of intensive in-home therapy? The Baby Fold “Keeping The Promise” Adoption Support and Preservation program provides supportive services for any adoptive child living within our service area to help them stabilize in their home. Services are provided to families formed through DCFS adoption, subsidized guardianship; private domestic or foreign adoption, or out-of-state adoption. You do not need to have gone through The Baby Fold for your adoption – these services are available to any adoptive family living within the 22 county service area.
Some of the more common challenges/presenting problems we address:
- Attachment difficulties
- Trauma
- ADHD
- Chronic lying /or stealing
- Aggression
- Peer problems
- Eating or sleep disturbances
- Sexual acting out
- Fire-setting
- Behavioral problems
- Wetting and defecating issues
- Family adjustment
- Grief resolution
- Learning disabilities
Intensive Services
- In-home family and individual therapy and consultations
- Support groups for parents and adoptive children
- School consultation and advocacy
- Respite resources including Camp Take-A-Break for children ages 6-14
- Support in accessing community resources
- Resource library for families and professionals.
- Group and individual adult education classes on therapeutic interventions such as Trust-Based Relational Intervention, Attachment Self-Regulation, and Competency, Facilitating Attachment in Children with Trauma
Referral Process
This program is open to self-referrals. For more information contact the Referral Coordinator at (309) 557-1149. KTP is one of several programs across the state providing similar services. If you do not live within KTP’s identified service area please call DCFS at 1-800-572-2390
Keeping the Promise Service Area
- Livingston
- McLean
- Ford
- DeWitt
- Macon
- Piatt
- Champaign
- Shelby
- Moultrie
- Douglas
- Logan
- Cumberland
- Clark
- Coles
- Edgar
- Menard
- Christian
- Sangamon
- Macoupin
- Montgomery
- Vermilion
- Iroquois
Accreditation and Funding
The Baby Fold’s Adoption Preservation program is accredited by the Council on Accreditation. This program is funded by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
Trust Based Relational Intervention® Collaboration
Virtual TBRI® collaborations for practicioners serving in adoption agencies, schools, foster care, and other services are available through The Baby Fold. If you are a TBRI® Practitioner interested in joining the TBRI® Illinois: Connecting to Collaborate Group, please click here to learn more.
Newsletters and Resources
- Attachment Strategies in the Classroom
- Dads Support Group
- Developmental Trauma and the Brain
- Evening Parent Support Group
- Flu Shot Poster
- Not Too Young to Talk About Race
- Parent Support Group
- Portillos Partnership
- Sensory Systems and Intervention Link
- Single Parent Support Group
- Social Media and Teens
- SSI Referral Information
- Toxic Stress Developing Brain
- What Teachers Should Know About Adoption
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Contact
Theresa Lawrence
The Baby Fold
612 Oglesby Avenue
Normal, IL 61761
(309) 557-1127
Testimonials
“My daughter was encouraged to voice her feelings rather than just acting out when she was angry or worried or anxious. She is much better at this than she was previously. The counselors encouraged her own ways to calm her anxious response to new situations. She was able to go on two field trips this past semester without the usual anxious build-up in the days prior to the trips. She is facing new situations with more confidence and less anxiousness.”
“Thank you so much for your services. {Staff} was a God send to me. Many Blessings!”
“Staff is a great and wonderful lady. Thank her for everything and may God Bless her and the whole Baby Fold organization!!!”
“I just want to take the time to thank you for all you have done. The times you gave us a break and we knew our kids were in good hands. Thank you and God bless you!”
“Your services are great. I send some difficult families to The Baby Fold. Your staff is always professional and goes above and beyond helping these families. Staff is very knowledgeable and making helpful suggestions to the families. Staff has the patience of a saint and is always cheerful as she works with some of the most difficult clients and family members. She sees things out to the very end for her client. She adjusts her hours to see them day and night. Staff is very knowledgeable and helpful to her clients and keeps me informed of events, which I appreciate very much. Staff is a absolute dream. She is so concerned and caring about her clients and families. She works around the family schedule, day and night as well. She has a wealth of information that she brings to her families and clients. She too has the patience of a saint and is willing to assist the families in being successful. Staff is very intelligent and has wonderful ideas she sets up with her clients to teach them other ways of handling their emotions. She also home, school, or where ever she needs to go to see her client. Staff has a very calm and peaceful disposition. I truly enjoy the work each therapist does to work with these difficult clients as well as families. I would not suggest any improvements.”
–Referring DCFS caseworker
Current Needs
There are ongoing needs to help support the programs and services of The Baby Fold. The document below contains specific needs for Adoption Support and Preservation.
