Welcome to Family Focus!
Browse our site to see how Family Focus promotes the well-being of children from birth by supporting and strengthening their families in and with their communities.
Foster Parents honored: Families participating in Family Focus training receive certificates (more...)
Summer jobs program a success: Results and comments - Family Focus's Put Illinois to Work program (Click here for employer and employee comments.)
Preventing violence
- Click here for Chicago Tribune video about how our parenting program helps break the cycle of violence. More...
- Talk with Dr. Eitan Schwarz about things we can do to lessen the impact of violence on children.
- Learn about Family Focus's Take Ten program
- Read Chicago Department of Public Health's Violence Prevention E-Brief
Help fight hunger - Click here to see a clip from recent ABC- 7 news coverage of our food distribution program in Lawndale.) More...
Parenting Help
Join informal, guided discussions at Parent Cafés to talk about positive parenting behaviors. More...
Help for Foster and Adoptive Families
Find out about parenting support for foster and adoptive families. More...
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This site is maintained and supervised by the following Family Focus staff: Lisa Yondorf, Editor; Ellen Canter, Director of Development; Kevin Limbeck, Executive Director. Please send all communications concerning the site to Lisa Yondorf..
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