Advocacy: What We Champion

These are the issues we advocate for on behalf of children and families:

• Access, quality and affordability of child care for working families
• Maintaining and increasing child care and early education budgets
• Advancing professional development for the early care and education field
• Improving licensing standards for child care programs

Legislative Priorities

Illinois Action for Children advocates work to ensure that public polices support strong families and powerful communities where children matter most. Click below to read about our current legislative priorities and for more information about current policy issues

Child Care Co-Payment Fact Sheet 

Illinois’ Child Care Assistance Program helps low-income families pay for child care they need to work or go to school.  Participating families share in the cost of care by making a co-payment to their provider.  The current structure of Illinois co-payment system creates unnecessary administrative complications. SB1236 would create a simplified and streamlined co-payment system.

Preschool for All Evaluation 

The Erickson Institute recently completed an evaluation of the Preschool for All program.  Click here for a summary of initial results

IAFC Testimony to the House Human Services Appropriations Committee  

The General Assembly invites testimony from state agencies, experts and advocates to learn more about particular programs.  IAFC provided testimony to the House Human Services Appropriations Committee on 3/30/11 on the Child Care Assistance Program.

IAFC Testimony to the Senate Human Services Appropriations Committee 

The General Assembly invites testimony from state agencies, experts and advocates to learn more about particular programs.  IAFC provided testimony to the Senate Appropriations I Committee on 4/12/11 on the Child Care Assistance Program.