Funding Recipients

The Home currently provides support to charitable organizations that provide care, education and other services in community-based settings to expectant mothers, mothers, infants and children.

Rush adolescent family center

The Rush Adolescent Family Center serves a vital role in improving the physical and mental health status of children and adolescents by providing accessible, affordable prenatal and reproductive health care on the Rush campus. The comprehensive model of wellness in the AFC focuses not only on the physical care of expectant mothers and parents, but on mental health, health education, resource linkage, and asset building. The AFC provides health care to those who face significant challenges to accessing these services, including being uninsured or underinsured. These centers are in a unique position to link children and adolescents to the health care system and play a vital role in providing preventive services that support lifelong good health and success.

mercy Home for Boys & GirlsHo Home

Mercy Home for Boys & Girls has been a solution for kids in crisis since 1887. Through its residential, aftercare, and mentoring programs, Mercy Home provides safety, therapy, education, and life-changing opportunities for more than 900 young people and family members every year. It helps children heal from the traumas of abuse, neglect, poverty, housing instability, and community violence while giving them the tools they need to build brighter futures.

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sOS children’s villages - illinois

SOS Children’s Villages Illinois provides a stable home in a supportive, community environment designed to help children in need grow into caring, productive, and self-reliant adults. SOS Illinois unites brothers and sisters in foster care and provides a safe space to heal for at-risk youth. The SOS Children’s Villages model differs from traditional foster care in emphasizing the following four components: 1) Children live together with their siblings, 2) Children receive care and support from a full-time, professionally trained Foster Parent, 3) Children grow up in a private, single-family home, and 4) Children are supported by the Village, designed as an intentional community of care.

New Beginnings prenatal program

New Beginnings offers prenatal care to moms-to-be with limited financial resources, including obstetric care, education, counseling and emotional support. Services are offered in fifty different languages and also assist patients with filing Medicaid & All Kids forms. Prenatal care is offered in the New Beginnings Clinic at AMITA Health Holy Family Medical Center in Des Plaines. Labor, delivery and postpartum care take place in the Family Birthplace at AMITA Health Resurrection Medical Center in Chicago, with advanced care in private, cozy birthing suites.