Vision: Every child in Illinois grows up healthy.
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Children’s Mental Health Initiative Symposium
On September 19, 2019, ILCHF hosted a full day symposium focused on integrating mental healthcare into community based settings. PowerPoint presentations from the symposium are available here.
Children’s Mental Health Initiative Symposium
ILCHF Hosts Children’s Mental Healthy Symposium, Dec. 6, 2018 Stakeholders from dozens of IL communities gathered to discuss lessons learned from 8-year, $12 million CMHI project. Podcast and searchable written transcripts from the symposium are available here.
Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation
Accomplishments and Lessons Learned:
Children’s Mental Health Initiative, Building Systems of Care,
Community by Community
Since 2004
$81.15 Million Awarded
Oral Health 33 million
Mental Health 37 million
Other 11 million
499 Grants Awarded
184 Oral Health Grants
174 Mental Health Grants
141 Other Grants
ILCHF is the only private Illinois foundation that funds children’s healthcare statewide.
ILCHF Grants Touch All 102 Illinois Counties
We work collaboratively with organizations to improve community-based systems of care that treat children holistically and focus on prevention, wellness and education. We partner with grantees to increase children’s access to mental and oral health services.
Quite simply we want to ensure that kids get the care they need, when they need it – regardless of where they live or what insurance card, if any, they carry.
— Jim Ryan, Former Illinois Attorney General
News
Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation and Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation Partner for New H20 On The Go Grant Program Oak Brook, Ill. (May 6, 2020) – Recently, the Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation and Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation partnered to launch a new grant program to provide new water stations in Illinois schools. The program, H2O On the Go, aims to replace existing water fountains with new water bottle-filling stations at elementary, middle and high schools throughout Illinois. The program
Open RFPs
Teacher Child Interaction Training – Universal (TCIT-U) RFP Proposals due on February 28, 2020.
This RFP invites proposals to initiate a second round of Teacher-Child Interaction Training-Universal (TCIT-U) in Illinois. In April 2020, an Illinois public school district ($20,000 grant) or two adjacent districts ($30,000 grant) will be selected to implement TCIT-U beginning in summer 2020.
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation (ILCHF) is partnering with Learn Ventures, LLC to strengthen teachers' positive impact on the social-emotional and behavioral learning of young children in their classrooms. Toward this end, ILCHF will support three Illinois public school implementations of TCIT-U, a manualized, train-the-trainer, professional development model for teachers designed to improve both children's behavioral outcomes (pre-K through second grade) and teacher's skills and confidence in interacting with children.
Recent Publications
Mental Health Initiative Project Findings
CMHI 1.0 was an eight-year, $12 million initiative that awarded grants to four communities to bring together schools, medical, and community health organization to establish a sustainable children’s mental health system of care. The report was released today at a day-long conference intended to pass along initiative successes and challenges to stakeholders from across the state, including mental health, medical and school professional.
Influencing the Dental Workforce in Illinois: A Case Study of the Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation
Influencing the Dental Workforce in Illinois: A Case Study of the Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation
ILCHF partnered with Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine and University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry to implement the Pipeline Project. This Study conducted by researchers at Loyola University at Chicago Center for Urban Research and Learning captures key learnings related to dental workforce development strategies. The eight-year study involved relevant constituents, i.e., students, alumni, faculty, deans, admissions committees and extramural site
Oral Health in Illinois
October 2016
This assessment provides a foundation for understanding and strengthening the oral health infra- structure in Illinois. The assessment indicates numerous opportunities to move the system forward. (Full Report)