Home Visiting Coordinated Intake

Coordinated Intake (CI) is a collaborative process that provides families with a single point of entry for home visiting programs within a community.

Trained Coordinated Intake workers serve as a hub for home visiting, assessing families’ needs, referring them to an appropriate home visiting program, and tracking what happens to the referrals.

Best Practices, Tools, and Lessons Learned

Illinois Department of Human Services-Division of Early Childhood Home Visiting (IDHS-DEC HV) program has been invested in coordinated intake and community systems building since the inception of DEC HV.

See below for a Coordinated Intake toolkit, logic model, and reports on best practices.

• Toolkit-Developing Coordinated Intake For Your Community
• Coordinated Intake Logic Model
• Coordinated Intake Issue Brief

IDHS-DEC HV Coordinated Intake Assessment Tool (CIAT)

A Coordinated Intake Assessment Tool (CIAT) is utilized by all Illinois DEC HV communities when recruiting participants. Non-IDHS-DEC HV programs may use it as well.

To learn more about Learning Communities contact Mary Anne Wilson at mawilso@illinois.edu