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Illinois Action for Children is committed to assisting child care providers and center staff with meeting health and safety requirements. Child care providers must have a minimum of 1 CCAP child in care and…

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Early Head Start programs provide access to real educational opportunities for expectant families and children up to three years old. Early Head Start (both home- and center-based programs) includes Parent-Infant Educator visits to the home once per week, a social¬ization…

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Illinois Action for Children convenes early childhood community leaders and advocates every year for an early childhood policy caucus. This year, we’ll be hosting 4 caucuses throughout the state! At each regional caucus, you’ll learn about upcoming state and federal…

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We are 11 months – eleven months – into this fiscal year and Illinois is no closer to having a FY16 budget…

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Today is the final day of the regularly scheduled session for the Illinois General Assembly. Despite the fact that budget working groups, comprised of legislators from both the House and the Senate, have been meeting…

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While there is still no budget in sight for FY 2016 or FY 2017 years, we wanted to provide an update from Springfield. Yesterday, the House passed a bill, Senate Bill (SB) 2048 that offers a spending plan…

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On Friday, April 8th, Kids in Danger (KID) and Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago (Uptown Primary Care Clinic) are hosting a crib bumper pad exchange. Crib bumper pads are unnecessary crib…

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