LYDIA Home Association

Strengthening families to care for children and caring for children when families cannot.

Our History

Times have changed in our 100 years of existence, and so has our ministry. Few of the children we now serve are true orphans; instead, most are victims of neglect and physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse. As a result, we have expanded our ministry to provide a continuum of services that includes counseling, preschool, foster care placement, short-term residential arrangements and many others

Our Mission

Strengthening families to care for children and caring for children when families cannot.

What We Do

LYDIA’s faith-based approach to helping troubled families and children is unique, reaching people in diverse communities with a continuum of clinical and supportive services, including: Safe Families for Children (short-term housing arrangements for children) Foster Care Residential Treatment Learn & Care Preschool LYDIA Urban Academy (non-traditional high schools in Chicago and Rockford) Counseling Services

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