Organizations Filed Purposes:
Cradle's mission is building families through adoption, Support families through lifes challenges, and Strengthening communities through education.
Social Services: Cradle staff provide emotional support and options counseling for expectant parents free of charge, as well as lifelong emotional and educational support services for birth parents, adoptive families,and adopted individuals. In FY2020, trained Cradle counselors responded to 290 Helpline inquiries from expectant parents, received 92 expectant-parent referrals from professionals, wrote 29 homestudies for prospective adoptive parents, provided 327 counseling sessions, provided 141 post adoption consultaions, and 18 post adoption background reports written.
Outreach and Education: The Cradle's trained outreach staff performed 165 visits with Illinois-based medical and social-work professionals who work directly or indirectly with birthmothers, and made in-service presentations to 137 professionals resulting in the awarding of 137 CE/CU credits. A plan for program expansion to include outreach to community organizations was also approved. In addition, 544 community members attended Our Children programming, The Cradle's initiative to explore the realities faced by diverse families, including roundtables and live webinars.
Nursery and Special Needs Infant Care: In FY2020, 39 infants received 968 nights of care from licensed Cradle Nursery staff and affiliated physicians, and 35 babies were placed with their forever families. Since 1923, nearly 16,000 children have been cared for in The Cradle Nursery-the only one of its kind in the nation-and placed with permanent, loving families. The Cradle accepts any baby referred to its care, whether healthy or medically fragile, and all placements are guided by a philosophy of open adoption. Care in The Cradle Nursery is provided free of charge, affording birth parents considering adoption greater peace of mind and eliminating worry about insurance coverage limits.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Kimberley Perez | President & CEO | 30 | $194,970 |
| Linda Hageman | VP, Social Services | 40 | $141,705 |
| Nijole Yutkowitz | VP, Outreach & Education | 40 | $111,623 |
| Simone Wheeler | VP, Development | 40 | $41,204 |
| Ryan Whiticare | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Barbara Sereda | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Lawrence Rubly | Director | 1 | $0 |
| John Luce | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Heather A Kelley | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Margarita Kellen | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Anna Marie Hajek | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jessica A Garascia | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jeanne Enright | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jane Commins | Director | 1 | $0 |
| James G Connelly Iii | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Eric Conley | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jeff Brown | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Penelope Boardman | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jason Asper | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Angela S Ames | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Kim Simonton | Vice Chair | 1.5 | $0 |
| Talita R Erickson | Secretary | 1.5 | $0 |
| Jerry Biederman | Chair | 1.5 | $0 |
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