
Family Options III
203 N. Wabash Ave., Ste. 918
Chicago,IL 60601
Phone:
312-786-9255
Fax: 312-855-9001
inquiries@familiesandchildrensnetwork.org
http://www.familiesandchildrensnetwork.org
Project Director
Linda S. Coon, JD
Project Evaluators
James Gleeson
Kimberly Harris
Sponsoring Organization
Families’ and Children’s AIDS Network
(FCAN)
Description:
Family Options, a permanency planning project of the Families’ and Children’s AIDS Network (FCAN), has led the development of new programs and policies promoting permanency planning and family support for HIV-affected families. In Illinois, these new legal options include standby guardianship, standby adoption, short-term guardianship, and a host of other guardianship and adoption reforms.
Based in Chicago, Family Options offers comprehensive, interdisciplinary legal and social work services to families when at least one parent is HIV-positive in order to help them make future care and custody choices for their children. Since its inception in 1996, Family Options has served over 700 caregivers and more than 1400 children. |