The Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation (ILCHF) has a single vison: to ensure that every child in Illinois has the opportunity to grow up healthy. Working through grantee partners across the state, the Foundation focuses its grantmaking on identifying and funding solutions to the barriers that prevent children from accessing the ongoing health care they need.
The Foundation allocates most of its dollars toward two specific areas:
Improving oral health of Illinois' children
Addressing the mental health needs of children, including developmental screening
In 2007, ILCHF announced amajor initiative in its grantmaking efforts to more directly target oral health improvement. At least $20 million will be focused over five years on efforts related to three overall strategies.
In the area of children's mental heatlh, ILCHF has directed funding in the area of integrating mental health services into a primary care setting. The Foundation recently announced a new mutli-million dollar initiative to improve children's mental health services in Illinois.
In addition, the Foundation monitors emerging and other compelling health issues that the Board of Directors may select as focus areas in the future.
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