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Advocate Corner
eAdvocate March 2013: State Budget Update, Federal Budget Update, and more
Making the Grade: A Report Card on Child Care Licensing: A new project is underway to support child care providers in Illinois! Click here to learn more!
Calificaciones: Evaluando el Sistema de Licencia de Cuidado de Niños: ¡Un nuevo proyecto está en marcha para apoyar a los proveedores de cuidado infantil en Illinois!
Child Care Works Campaign Spotlight! Learn about a center/provider's Child Care Works story and find out how you can tell yours.
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Latest News
Illinois Action for Children featured in Daily Chronicle article about IAFC’s Day of Action – 5.13.13
Illinois Action for Children’s Choua Vue Named to Asian-American Employment Plan Advisory Council – 4.18.13
Happenings
- Monique Draper, Illinois Action for Children’s Director of Provider Programs, will be a featured speaker at the Women's Business Development Center's 15th Anniversary Child Care Business Expo on June 1st, 2013! For more information on the Child Care Business Expo and how you can attend, please click here.
- Illinois Action for Children’s latest report, Choices in the Real World, has been released. Click here to download and read about the use of family, friend and neighbor care by single Chicago mothers working nontraditional schedules.
- Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Grant – Illinois has won a $34.8 million Federal grant to integrate and improve the quality of early childhood programs for children and families. Grant funds will help connect children most at risk to high quality early learning programs. For more information, please click here.
- The Early Care and Education Resource Guide (Spring 2013 Course Catalog) is available.
- Babies haven’t changed but the way we put them to sleep has. Click the following link for recommendations on keeping babies safe while they sleep. All they need is Safe, Simple, Sleep!
