Arden Shore Child and Family Services

"I volunteered for the intact program in hopes to bring my family back together but instead they tore my family apart. They instigated so much drama between me and the father. Causing the kids to suffer, struggle, and be neglected. They dont do home visits, they meet and talk with kids at McDonald's and other local places. They don't care about unity or the best interests of the children. My kids where terrified and frighten from arden shore threats. They threaten our kids with foster care and threatened the kids saying they will bring hardship upon their parents. . I truly regret using they services. I pray to God he help me heal from the pain and heartache this place has brought to me and my family. I trusted them with our kids. Arden shore is full of lies and deception. They told community partners lies in regard to who was responsible for the kids best interests. Arden shore knows that both mom and dad have been responsible for the kids.they destroy the whole concept of co parenting. They have no moral or ethical standards and they make up their own rules. They told my daughter i had mental issues. Do not trust arden shore. They're not an honest company. Beware of their integrity. They discriminate."

"They do not follow the laws of biological parents, mainly the mother's! I had constant consistent, full 3.5 year completed case with a year forced absence of zero, legally binding, DCFS policy & procedural laws to be obtained and met for the care of the children and reunification goals per title lV federal funding so that the agency is held to the fullest responsibility to ensure adequate and appropriate needs be met to preserve natural mother's and their children remain to be reunified as my case has severely corrupt, and neglected. I have had the ENTIRE DCFS laws of the policy guildlines null & void since Feb. 2022- to date, a year not seeing my kids, illegal withholding of all 3 of my children to be any contact as well as not a single code held in handbook under "reunification & permenancy goals & planning". This automatically constitutes a null & void case closed under federal laws. Under every law, be state of IL, natural, constitutional, civil rights, parental rights, fundamental rights etc. My kids need mom. They have no legal right to withhold and deny the goals and policy's and since that happens it can not be continued in the 19th judicial circuit court in Vernon Hills (seperate from Waukegan courthouse due to full blown corruption) I do want to add if ANY parents are in my shoes you have rights to legally take actions. They stole my 4 day old newborn claiming "emergency custody" by Jeanie Anderson, long documented and reported to Lindsay Johnson (fake attorney fired legally by myself for being a fraud and knowledge of being federally sued) Along with the agency itself, Ardenshore for violating every right of mine throughout this horrific and mental/physical damaging game to terminate parental rights and give a stolen baby to "foster mom's" who are set up ahead of time aware that one day that WILL be their adopted child. My son is almost 2 now, I know NOTHING about him! The cook county DCFS agency was to be jurisdictionally & legally responsible for the choices to be keeping my baby and they said they would never have done what Ardenshore did who was supervisor Christine Siwula & McHenry investigator, Jeannie Anderson who set up a plan two months prior to birth that Margaret be his mother. THAT IS KIDNAPPING AND IT IS ILLEGALLY DONE. THE HOSPITAL PROTESTED AND SIGNED LEGAL AFFIDAVITS & ATTESTATION IN WHICH THEY PUT THEIR LICENCE'S ON THE LINE TO ENSURE I KEPT MY NEWBORN AS IT IS AND WOULD BE DETRIMENTAL TO HIS AND MOTHER'S HEALTH AS WELL AS ZERO RISKS TO HIM BEING BEST STAY WITH HIS NATURAL MOTHER BREAST FEEDING AND BONDED! A week later foster parent Margaret fully denied my breast milk as if I had a great time sitting broken home pumping with no baby home. That is damaging!!! He has not been legally removed, nothing was legal. I never deserved anything I've been through and Ardenshore is fully responsible for allowing a child's molestation by her father I tried telling police 15x, Malory from CYN, and TWO DCFS workers of needs to flee which again mother legally are by law to be left to flee WITH HELP from their abuser which was their dad and my ex now in prison but is STILL ALLOWED ACCESS TO THIS CASE! Talk about mental & emotional damages!!! I'd like to warn all please DO NOT WORK HERE, DO NOT ACCEPT BEING A CLIENT HERE, REQUEST IMMEDIATELY TO HAVE DCFS OVERSEEING YOUR CASE AS THEY GIVE CASES HERE TO TERMINATE THEM, ALMOST ALWAYS UNLESS YOU'RE ONE OF THE LUCKY LIKABLE FEW. THEY WILL TAKE NEARLY ALL NEWBORNS, AND GIVE THEM TO "CHOSEN" FOSTERS. DO NOT FOSTER HERE PLEASE PLEASE THESE ARENT FREE GIVEAWAYS THESE ARE BABYS WHO HAVE MOTHER'S WHO DONT ALWAYS NEED TO HAVE TO ENDURE KIDNAPPING AND ALLOW ESPECIALLY THE LBGQA COMMUNITY TO HAVE CHILDREN! I AM BI! THEY SELECT THEM PER THEIR OWN PERSONAL CHOICES PERIOD. **VIEW THE REVIEWS, ITS ENOUGH TO PROVE THAT AS I EXPERIENCED IT NOW IM TELLING MY TRUTH WHICH FALSIFIED DOCUMENTS AND LIES UNDER OATH. PARENTS NEVER EVER ALLOW THEM TO DO THIS, LEGALLY YOU CAN AND NEED TO SUE AND ITS FREE UPON WAVER IN FEDERAL, civil, sue Agency violating right w/ tort."

"I have been in Arden Shore Group Home for Boys in the mid 80's, when it was a campus in Lake Bluff. Spent almost 2 years of my childhood there, it was an experience that ill never forget for the rest of my life. Staff back then abused us, had other group member slamming us on the ground to restrain the individual. But also had some good times there also."

"very unprofessional case workers me and my children's father had got assigned to a caseworker with them and the lady ended up becoming good friends with my children's father they would take selfies together there friends on facebook still till this day and talk regularly very unprofessional and I'm pretty positive a caseworker isn't allowed to develop a relationship with a client of her assigned case I'm gonna be reporting it because it was not right and not professional at all. NO BOUNDARIES"

"We have been working with Arden Shore Child and Family Services to become certified as a foster family. They sent us an initial packet of information, which was missing multiple items. Twice we had to request additional information. My family went through the process of filling out all of the paperwork, getting physicals at our doctor (at our expense), etc. We were then told by Arden Shore Child and Family Services that we would not be considered because we are only considering fostering one child and they are looking for families to foster multiple children. Had Arden Shore notified us up front of their stipulation of fostering multiple children, we could have chosen another agency to work with. Instead, we were strung along and had to spend our time and money completing the steps we thought would lead to our family becoming certified to become a foster family. This experience has left us feeling very skeptical of the entire process. Should you consider becoming a foster family, I would suggest looking at agencies other than Arden Shore."