my name is lorean wordlaw im 26 years old and im a single mother of four beautiful children camari(7) cayden(5)carter(4)cayvion(3) i have been in a battle with Dcfs since 2017 my purpose in writing this petition is to gain awareness and help people who are being taken avantange of by the system and to get help! because i believe the system has failed me and my children i am hoping that with this petition i can get help with getting full cusody of my children and to get dcfs held accountable for violating my civil rights i am from chicago illinois and i decided to move because chicago is becoming extremely violent and innocent kids are losing their lives and i didnt want the streets of chicago taking my kids lives so i found housing in beardstown illinois  i met this lady who goes to a Nazarene church and she is well known in that small town and seemed like a really nice lady she always called checking on my kids and always inviting us to her church and over her house well later down the line i found out she was a foster mother and she know people who work for dcfs and has been making reports on me behind my back because she wanted my kids and she still has them until this day before i found this out about the foster lady from the Nazarene church dcfs took my 3 kids at the time because they got a phone call saying that i went across the parking lot for 5 minutes with my oldest son and left the other 2 kids asleep in a play pin. Dcfs didn’t give me any warnings they just automatically removed my kids the foster lady went with me to the first court hearing and they offered her cusody without asking me and didnt allow none of my family members to step in to get custody i would think that family come first but they never went through with family. im not a perfect mother i admit that was a foolish mistake but thats all it was a (mistake) but this has been ongoing for 5 years! i never physically mentally or emotionally abused my children in any way i always loved them and made sure they felt loved and supported i have missed so many important mildstones in my kids lives over the mistake of walking across a parking lot! im not on drugs i never failed a drug test i always had a roof over my kids and i heads and a job and a car i never missed visits with my kids and my kids beg me almost every time they see me to come home. i tried getting a personal lawyer but all the lawyer did was just take my money and made no progress in helping me and stood quiet in court when he was my family voice to speak up. dcfs put me in counceling and my councelor was a member of the foster parents church. the foster parent and her family has contiuned making false reports and dcfs just kept believing things she was saying and putting more and more time away from me and my children. I have had so many caseworkers who sided with foster parents and never took time to help me gain custody of my kids. I’m never allowed to really speak up in court I feel like because I had no family or friends in beardstown and because I am a young single black mother I was a target and they took advantage of me my kids are not scared of me i am a good mom and im hurting every day of my life because my mother hood was snatched away from me my kids cry out for my help and i cant do anything to save them. my cell number is 708-691-2419 my email is lwordlaw337@gmail.com my story may be all over the place but please guys i am begging for any legal help any advice anybody may have i do not want to give up on getting my kids back i just need help! i feel like i am alone in this situation i can better explain by phone. i need help to get a good lawyer to look over my case! dcfs is trying to terminate my parental rights when I have did absolutely everything they have asked me to do