How family support and coaching can help

Additional videos addressing other aspects of the Illinois early childhood system – including Head Start, the child care assistance program, Early Intervention, TANF and WIC, and Special Education – can be viewed here. To view the above video in Spanish click here.This series of videos was prepared by Illinois Action for Children.

What is Home Visiting?

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Home visiting is a voluntary service that matches parents with trained professionals to provide family support and parent coaching during pregnancy and throughout their child’s early years of life. Through partnering with home visitors, families learn how to improve their family’s health and provide better opportunities for their children. For more information, click here.

Watch a Home Visit

This photo and audio tour of a home visit between a 24-year-old new mom, her son, and their home visitor, provides an intimate glimpse into these voluntary parent coaching and mentoring programs. The Pew Charitable Trusts prepared this tour so you can experience a home visit for yourself.

Pew has provided other resources about home visiting that you may find of interest; to learn more, please click here.

Find a program

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To find a home visiting program in your community, click here for an interactive map or to see the listing of specific communities that offer coordinated intake for home visiting services.  If you have any questions, or if you are a home visiting program and would like your program’s contact information updated or changed, please contact Ebony Hoskin at (312) 814-6312 or click here to send her an email.

Programs

MIECHV Reauthorization

The main source of federal funding for home visiting – the Maternal, Infant, Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program – is scheduled to expire in September 2017, unless the U.S. Congress takes action to reauthorize it. In Illinois, MIECHV funding has been a vital part of our home visiting system and our broader early childhood system.

If you would like more information about efforts to get MIECHV reauthorized, please contact Rose Gallagher by clicking here

Professional Development

Many opportunities for professional development and training are offered for home visitors and home visiting programs in Illinois.

Please click here to learn more about these opportunities.

MIECHV

The Maternal, Infant, Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program is the main source of federal funding for home visiting. MIECHV was designed to expand voluntary, evidence-based home visiting programs across the U.S. and improve the outcomes for pregnant women and families, particularly those considered at-risk.

Click here to learn more about MIECHV and how this program has positively impacted young children and families in Illinois.

News

Resources for Early Childhood Programs Serving Immigrant, Refugee, Undocumented, or Mixed Status Children and Families

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Using Powerful Interactions with Families

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Webinar on the Reauthorization of the Federal Home Visiting Program

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Partners

It takes a village. Illinois home visiting collaborates with numerous partners in order to support young children and families. These partners include:

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago  •  Children’s Home + Aid  •  Easter Seals  •  Ever Thrive Illinois  •  Family Focus  •  Fussy Baby Network at the Erikson Institute  •  Heartland Alliance  •  Illinois Action for Children  •  Illinois Association for Infant Mental Health  •  Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics  •  Illinois Children’s Mental Health Partnership  •  Illinois Childhood Trauma Coalition  •  Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence  •  Latino Policy Forum  •  Metropolitan Family Services  •  Mothers and Babies Program at Northwestern University  •  Prevent Child Abuse Illinois  •  Robert R. McCormick Foundation  •  Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law  •  The Irving Harris Foundation  •  The Ounce of Prevention Fund  •  Voices for Illinois Children

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Contact

160 N. LaSalle Street,
Suite N-100
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: Call the iGrow office at (312) 814-6312
Fax: (312) 814-0904

This website is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number HRSA-16-172 Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program – Formula. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.