Illinois Department of Human Services
Division of Family & Community Services
Program Description
Target
DCFS wards under age six, pregnant or parenting, in downstate Illinois and under age 6 in Cook County.
Eligibility Criteria
DCFS wards under age 21 in downstate Illinois and under age six (6) in Cook County.
Purpose
To ensure children in foster care receive comprehensive health services.
Services
HealthWorks of Illinois helps foster parents to meet the health care needs of children placed in their care. Local program staff can assist foster parents in finding a physician, understanding a child's health problems and ensuring that children receive the routine and specialized health care services they need.
Delivery Method
Health care networks are led by twenty HealthWorks agencies responsible for program operation, training medical case managers and recruiting more primary care physicians to serve foster children. Medical case managers from local health departments or community-based organizations work with foster parents and physicians to coordinate health care services.
Program Data
| Program Data |
SFY09 |
SFY10 |
SFY11 |
| Program Expenditures (Numbers in 000's) |
$1,596.8 |
$1,617.5 |
* |
| Number of Grantees |
19 |
20 |
82 |
| Number Served** |
16,668 |
16,196 |
6,019 |
* No grant amount allocated - HealthWorks is part of FCM.
**Includes children age 0 through 21.
Program Accomplishments
This program has proved to be most effective in improving access to health care for children from birth through 5 years of age. In SFY2011, 89 percent of the wards downstate was current with their immunizations and 90 percent were current with their well child visits.
