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.

Since 2004

$110 Million Awarded

  • Oral Health 38 million

  • Mental Health 58 million

  • Other 14 million

642 Grants Awarded

  • 222 Oral Health Grants

  • 229 Mental Health Grants

  • 191 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

Grant Spotlight: New CSWI Grants

Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation Invests $8.3 Million In Children’s Mental Health ILCHF’s COVID School Wellness Initiative Funds 29 Grants Statewide  (Oak Brook, IL) – December 9, 2021 – The Covid-19 pandemic has fully exposed and exacerbated the children’s mental health crisis in Illinois and nationally.  The Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation (ILCHF) has responded with the COVID-19 School Wellness Initiative (CSWI) – a statewide effort to address the mental health needs of children, their caregivers and teachers in communities hardest hit
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Grant Spotlight: New H2O On the Go Grants

For Immediate Release: November 29, 2021 Media Contact: DeRondal Bevly Email: derondal@rubyrosestrategies.com  Program Contact: Bob Egan Email: BobEgan@ilchf.org   55 Illinois schools to receive new water bottle-filling stations Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation and Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation award a second round of H20 On the Go grants  Oak Brook, Ill. (Nov. 29, 2021) – Fifty-five Illinois schools will receive new water bottle-filling stations to encourage students to drink more water as part of H2O On the Go, a grant
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For Immediate Release: November 29, 2021 Media Contact: DeRondal Bevly Email: derondal@rubyrosestrategies.com  Program Contact: Bob Egan Email: BobEgan@ilchf.org   Providers Statewide Receive Grants to Improve Children’s Oral Health Care $7.3 million awarded statewide by Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation and Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation Oak Brook, Ill. (Nov. 29, 2021) – Nearly forty healthcare organizations are among those statewide recently awarded grants through two programs that together provided $7.3 million this year to help improve the oral health of Illinois
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Open RFPs

Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation Announces New Health Equity Grant Program

(Oak Brook, IL) – June 28, 2021 – Today, the Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation (ILCHF) and Delta Dental Foundation of Illinois (DDILF) announce the creation of new health equity grant program to assist organizations working to improve the oral and overall health of children impacted by poverty. Both foundations are contributing approximately $2 million dollars each in order to support the new initiative. In total, grant allocations of up to $200,000 will be awarded to each organization and must be used within two years (up to $100,000 per year). Eligible organizations must work in Illinois communities where children may not be able to access quality, comprehensive oral health services as a result of systemic health and social inequities. 
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Recent Publications

Healthy Minds, Healthy Children, Healthy Chicago

Spring 2020

Commitment. Community. Collaboration. Change. These four Cs were the vision for ILCHF as it pursued the goal of developing models for integrated children’s mental health in the Healthy Minds, Healthy Children, Healthy Chicago initiative. (Full Report)

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Children’s Mental Health Initiative (CMHI 1.0)

December 2018

The Children’s Mental Health Initiative, Building Systems of Care, Community by Community (CMHI 1.0) was designed to enable four communities to find local solutions to these critical challenges. (Full Report)

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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)

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