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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.

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Since 2004

$110 Million Awarded

[pie_chart3 width=”250px” height=”200px”]35,#03a8b6,Oral Health 38 million; 53,#2bb24f,Mental Health 58 million; 12,#f69a3a,Other 14 million[/pie_chart3]

642 Grants Awarded

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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

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UIC College of Dentistry Dedicates Pediatric Dentistry Outpatient Care Center to ILCHF

UIC College of Dentistry hosted the dedication of the Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation Pediatric Dentistry Outpatient Care Center (ILCHF PD-OCC) on March 10, 2022 A year and a half after its soft-opening in September 2020, the UIC College of Dentistry proudly hosted the dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation Pediatric Dentistry Outpatient Care Center (ILCHF PD-OCC) on March 10, 2022. The formal dedication was delayed out of an abundance of caution due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
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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: ILCHF and Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation Announce New Oral Health Nitrous Oxide Sedation Initiative

Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation and Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation Announce New Oral Health Nitrous Oxide Sedation Initiative Approximately $1 Million Dollars in Grant Funding Available to Help Illinois Children (Oak Brook, IL) – February 2, 2022 – The Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation (ILCHF) and Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation announce the creation of the Oral Health Nitrous Oxide Sedation Initiative, a new oral health program aimed at improving the oral health of children in Illinois. Both foundations are contributing
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Open RFPs

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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
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Recent Publications

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Mental Health

2015

An Investment in Our Future examines the accomplishments and lessons learned from the Children’s Mental Health Initiative, Building Systems of Care Community by Community. (Full Report)

An Investment in Our Future examines the accomplishments and lessons learned from the Children’s Mental Health Initiative, Building Systems of Care Community by Community. (Executive Summary)

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Impact on Children’s Oral Health in Illinois

An interim report 2004 – 2010

Through extensive research and convening of stakeholders, the Foundation adopted three overall strategies for impacting children’s oral health in Illinois. This report examines progress and lessons learned. (Full Report)

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