Strengthened Home Visiting System
Fostering Equitable Access to High-quality Early Childhood Services
Evidence-based home visiting fosters seamless, uninterrupted and equitable access to high quality early childhood experience and services from the prenatal through early childhood periods.
Through intentional investment and strategy, Illinois can robust home visiting services that support expecting and caring for young children to establish healthy foundations, leverage opportunities for children’s developmental and future successes and achieve their full potential.
How to Get There
- Increase home visiting services to all eligible families in Illinois by improving the infrastructure to deliver services
- Increase state and federal funding to Illinois for postpartum support through Medicaid reimbursement, Managed Care Organization administrative dollars and the Family First Prevention Services Act
- Increase compensation for the postpartum care providers
- Increase recruitment and retention of a diverse workforce that reflects the communities they serve
- Increase access to preparatory education, professional development and job support
- Unify data collection across systems and ensure data can be disaggregated by participant and workforce demographics (i.e., age, race, ethnicity)
- Increase communication to eligible families on the benefits and availability of intensive home visiting services, which results in more families enrolled in services
- Streamline funding and monitoring processes across funders at the state level and create greater coherence in program quality
- Establish a Coordinated Intake process in all communities in which home visiting is available to ensure families can access services seamlessly and at the earliest point possible
Increasing access to
15,000 children &
their families
Projected Impact
- Increasing access to evidence-based home visiting to 15,000 more children and their families by expanding services and removing barriers to currently available services to meet the current demand