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CNE's Home Visiting Program is a Head Start/Early Head Start program that serves families with young children ages birth to five through weekly home visits and twice-monthly group socializations. Each eligible family is paired with one of the CNE's Parent Educators/Home Visitors. They use research-based curricula (Parents As Teachers and My Teaching Strategies) to support parents in becoming their child's first teachers. As a team, parents and Parent Educators work collaboratively to establish educational and developmental goals for each child. Parent Educators then prepare individualized lesson plans to help each child/family transition to a Head Start program or Kindergarten and position them for school success and readiness.
Concordia Place offers the Home Visiting Program which works to assist parents in ensuring their child's health and well-being while working to improve the relationship between parent and child.
Kids Above All's Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program improves school readiness for 3- to 5-year-old's, empowering parents with the necessary skills and tools to serve as their child's primary educator and most effective advocate. The Family Educators go into the home and use a nationally-recognized, evidence-based curriculum to make sure our kids are ready to succeed in kindergarten and beyond. The curriculum focuses on developing the child's early math, reading and science skills.
Concordia Place offers the Home Visiting Program which works to assist parents in ensuring their child's health and well-being while working to improve the relationship between parent and child.
Shelter's Healthy Families is a nationally recognized home visiting program that offers five years of free, one-on-one support for first-time parents who face multiple challenges. The Shelter's multilingual staff works with parents during a child's formative years-from birth through age 5-to create safe and healthy environments for their babies. Through regular home visits, Shelter staff support parents in achieving fundamental skills such as stress management, effective discipline, health care, and nutrition while connecting them to critical community resources.
Young moms are paired with a Family Coach who visits with young moms in their homes to share parenting resources, tools, child development tips, and most of all - social connection and encouragement.
Healthy Families is a voluntary home visiting program that helps new and expectant parents strengthen their family's functioning and reduce their risk for child abuse or neglect. The program is a prevention program that works to improve the safety of children while providing support to the family. Home visitors help new moms and dads be better parents by teaching them how babies grow and develop, how to keep babies safe and healthy, good parenting skills, and goal setting.
The Children's Center of Cicero-Berwyn provides weekly or bi-weekly home visits and monthly group socializations for low-income families with children from birth to 3 years old.
SGA, by way of funding through Start Early, offers Early Head Start and Head Start programs. They use the 'Parents as Teachers' home-based curriculum, which focuses on motor coordination, language and literacy, and social-emotional and cognitive learning through an individualized approach. Services include parent workshops on childcare, health, and transitioning to kindergarten, as well as weekly group socializations and field trips.

Services

School Readiness Programs
Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
Concordia Place offers the Home Visiting Program which works to assist parents in ensuring their child's health and well-being while working to improve the relationship between parent and child.
Concordia Place offers the Home Visiting Program which works to assist parents in ensuring their child's health and well-being while working to improve the relationship between parent and child.
The Medical Examiner makes referrals through the Illinois Department of Public Health to local health departments for the families of infants who have died of SIDS. A Cook County Department of Public Health Nurse will make a home visit to ensure the family has social support resources, grief counseling, and primary health care.
CCAC provides free home visitation, support groups, and supportive services to income qualifying pregnant women and parents with children from birth to age three.Families are visited in their home by a parent coach who support parents as their child's first teacher. Parents learn about healthy child development and practice parenting techniques to enhance bonding and family well-being. Pregnant women are provided support and resources as they prepare for the birth of their child.

Services

Home Based Parenting Education
General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Parent Support Groups
Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
Early Childhood Professional Learning (ECPL) provides a broad range of early childhood professional development and support services through its program. The Early Childhood Developmental Enrichment Center (ECDEC) and FIND Prevention Initiative provide infant and toddler home visits and preschool to more than 1,200 at-risk families in the northwest Cook County (Illinois) region.

Services

Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
Community Based Preschools
School Readiness Programs
The Unidos Formando Un Futuro Teen Mom's Program provides 13 to 19-year-old teenagers with information and support for their new role as parents. Program goals include strategies that facilitate the development of positive parent/child relationships and improve the health and emotional well-being of both the child and young mom. Regular home visits provide convenient access to services while also allowing observation of teen parents and their emerging skills within the natural environment.
Midwest Healthy Start Initiative is a federally-funded program that works with Chicago's West Side communities to reduce infant mortality, improve infant health, and increase access to maternal and newborn care. They hold weekly breastfeeding education and support groups as well as "dancing for birth" classes. Some of the free services provided include prenatal care coordination, smoking cessation, health screening tools, and behavioral health. This program educates the community about child development, effective parenting, HIV and STDs, domestic violence, sickle cell disease, and doulas.
Healthy Families Illinois (HFI) is a voluntary home visiting program that helps new and expectant parents strengthen their family's functioning and reduce their risk for child abuse and/or neglect. It is a prevention program designed to keep children safe and make sure families have the support they need.
CCAC provides free case management to income qualifying pregnant women and children under the age of one. Support includes home visiting, referrals to health care, assistance obtaining public benefits, and prenatal and parenting classes.CCAC's Better Birth Outcomes program provides free case management to income qualifying pregnant women residing on the south side of Chicago who are deemed "High Risk."

Services

Pregnancy Complications
Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Low Income
Transitional Case/Care Management
Pregnant Individuals
General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
The Children's Center of Cicero-Berwyn provides weekly or bi-weekly home visits and monthly group socializations for low-income families with children from birth to 3 years old.
The Center serves parents of, and professionals who work with, young children with special needs through STAR NET Region II, including North and West Suburban Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, and McHenry counties in Illinois. Services include a broad range of resources and information for parents and professionals, including workshops, on-site presentations, technical assistance, and funding for training.

Services

Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
Community Based Preschools
School Readiness Programs
CCAC provides free home visitation, support groups, and supportive services to income qualifying pregnant women and parents with children from birth to age three living in and around Maywood, Hilside, Westchester, Broadview, and Melrose Park.Families are visited in their home by a parent coach who support parents as their child's first teacher. Parents learn about healthy child development and practice parenting techniques to enhance bonding and family well-being. Pregnant women are provided support and resources as they prepare for the birth of their child.

Services

Home Based Parenting Education
Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Parent Support Groups
Chinese American Service League - Child Development Center provides classes to help parents and caregivers develop the skills needed to enhance child and family well-being.
Kids Above All's Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program improves school readiness for 3- to 5-year-old's, empowering parents with the necessary skills and tools to serve as their child's primary educator and most effective advocate. The Family Educators go into the home and use a nationally-recognized, evidence-based curriculum to make sure our kids are ready to succeed in kindergarten and beyond. The curriculum focuses on developing the child's early math, reading and science skills.
The Children's Center of Cicero-Berwyn provides weekly or bi-weekly home visits and monthly group socializations for low-income families with children from birth to 3 years old.
A House in Austin (AHIA) offers home visiting to all families with children under 5 on the west side of Chicago regardless of age or economic status of guardian.