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Mimi's House Family Advocacy Center

Highwood, Illinois, United States • 1 Employees
Individual & Family Services

Mimi's House Family Advocacy Center provides social, emotional, and tangible resources to those impacted by the Child Welfare system including Foster Parents, former and current Youth in Care, and case managers. Mimi's House strives to make the Foster experience less traumatic for all individuals involved by partnering with Agencies and DCFS to provide: a safe home like environment for children for the time between home removal and Foster or Family placement; meeting space for supervised child / parent / sibling visits; family support specialists to help families with transport or visits, database of emergency foster homes and respite homes.Mimi's House vision is to make the Child Welfare system of Illinois less traumatic and more cohesive. We envision a system where children and families have access to the services and resources they need in order to safely and appropriately accomplish permanency in a timely manner. Mimi's House acknowledges that permanency encompasses reunification, independence, guardianship and adoption. Mimi's House is dedicated to mitigating the effects of trauma on children in care by preventing systemic trauma, addressing the families' trauma histories and providing necessary and appropriate training for caregivers and staff.