Prevent Child Abuse Illinois

Home visitation is a strategy that is essential to enhancing support for our country's youngest children. Program staff work with all types of home visiting services including Parents As Teachers, Early Head Start, Healthy Families Illinois, Nurse-Family Partnership, Baby Talk and others. Staff serve on the Healthy Families Illinois Workgroup, its Executive Committee, and co-chair its Public Awareness Committee. Staff facilitate regional networking groups, provide training, provide specific home visiting workshops and other opportunities at our annual conference, and support multiple partnerships working on Early Childhood Education and home visiting collaboration including maintaining federal funding for home visitation services.

The Annual Prevent Child Abuse Illinois Statewide Conference is a 2-day conference with 3 plenary sessions, 24 breakout sessions, an awards luncheon, resource tables, and professional networking opportunities. It also provides a home visiting track of workshops embedded within the conference breakout sessions. The conference offers access to national speakers and cutting-edge information in the field of child abuse and neglect prevention, intervention and best practices and provides eligible attendees with continuing education credits. The conference rotates between Springfield and the Chicago area and is attended by over 450 participants.