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ELGIN, IL

Helping you support the foster care community.

Meet Our Team

TFI Advocate

TFI Coordinators

  • Alison Sweet
  • Jennifer Gatsch
  • Jessica McCormick
  • Laura Tebbe
  • Ryan Weiss

We Serve:

Agencies

  • DCFS – Elgin
  • DCFS – Aurora
  • DCFS – DeKalb
  • LSSI – Aurora
  • Kane County CASA

Counties

  • Kane County
  • DeKalb County

Our Church Partners

Because of these Church Partners, we are able to help more people support the foster care community!

  • Apostolic Christian Church
  • Christ Community Church
  • Village Church of Bartlett

If you are interested in becoming a Church Partner, contact us!

Current Opportunities to Serve

If you are interested in serving in any of the following ways, connect with us at [email protected].

First Response

First Response provides a way for immediate, tangible needs to be met through local churches. This program works directly through agency referrals and serves vulnerable families, relative foster parents, young adults, children in foster care, and foster parents. Let us know if you’d like to be on the list to learn of needs as they arise.

Worker Appreciation

Foster care workers’ jobs can be heartbreaking, challenging, and overwhelming with little appreciation. Let’s come together to show these amazing employees that their work in serving families and children is needed and appreciated!

Families Serving Families

Provide a foster family with ongoing support by wrapping around them with physical, relational, and spiritual support throughout the year. Encouragement looks like providing meals, homework help, folding laundry, making birthday cakes, or extending care in ways that would be of help to the family. Learn more about being connected to a foster family you can serve on an ongoing basis.

Replanted Foster Parent Support Group

Foster Parents can often feel overwhelmed, isolated, and unsupported. Replanted Support Group is a place for foster parents to gather together on this journey together. They meet one Saturday morning a month to learn and share with one another. Breakfast and childcare with a bible-based curriculum are included. Connect with us to serve foster parents one time or each month!

Journey Bags

Children often come into foster care with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Journey Bags are bags filled with personal and comfort items for children to call their own so that they know they are loved, prayed for, and remembered! Connect with us to learn more about our current Journey Bag needs!

Christmas Sponsorships

Holidays can be hard on children and families. Support a family by purchasing gifts off a wish list for foster children to know the love of Jesus at Christmas.  We’d love your help with organizing the event as well.

School Supplies

Each year, our agencies reach out with needs during the back-to-school season for children in foster care. Not only at the start of school though, children come into foster care at all times during the year and are in need of supplies as they move schools or simply lack what they need to excel at school. Connect with us if you are interested in filling a backpack with school supplies.

Give a Gift

We depend on generous donors like you! 100% of your donation stays local so that we can continue helping to support the foster care community through awareness, encouragement, and advocacy!

GIVE NOW

Thank you for your generosity!

Request Forms

If you are an agency worker who has a need, use our request form: Link

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FAQs

Where are you located?

Because we are a volunteer based ministry, we do not have an office location locally.

How are you funded?

By generous donors like you! 100% of your donation stays local so that we can continue helping to support the foster care community! Join us by giving a gift today!

Is TFI faith-based?

Yes! You can read our statement of faith here. We want to see people everywhere supporting the foster care community and experiencing Jesus together!

Is TFI a foster care agency?

No. We love our local agencies, and we support them in all that we do through awareness, encouragement, and advocacy.

Is TFI unique to our area?

Our local ministry is part of a national organization, which has advocates all across the nation! Check out all of our locations here.

Your Advocate

Karen Weiss
[email protected]

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People everywhere supporting the foster care community and experiencing Jesus together.

People everywhere supporting the foster care community and experiencing Jesus together.

Who We Support

Foster Parents

Agency Workers

Vulnerable Adults

Children