Shelter, Inc.

Since 1996, Shelter, Inc. has provided Healthy Families services free of charge to first-time parents, helping them to build a healthy and secure environment for their children.

The Healthy Families program offers a variety of services through home visitation that may include information referrals to child care, education or health care.  Home visits focus on positive parenting skills, child development, child health information and other aspects of family functioning.

Services are focused on strengthening the family and enhancing the quality of life, thereby improving childhood outcomes.

Healthy Families America Goals:

• To systematically assess all first-time parents in order to identfy their strengths and needs, to refer them to appropriate community resources.
• To enhance family functioning by building trusting relationships, teaching problem solving skills and improving the family's support system.
• To promote positive parent-child interaction.
• To ensure children receive well-baby care and immunizations.

Shelter Inc.'s Healthy Families staff is bilingual, bicultural and trained in prevention services as well as parent education.  The program is voluntary and confidential.  The Healthy Families approach is designed to begin working intensively with families around the time their babies are born and services are available for up to five years.

For more information about Shelter, Inc.'s Healthy Families Program:

• Call us at 847.255.8060
• Email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Complete the Healthy Families Online Information Request Form
• View our Healthy Families Program brochure
• View our Healthy Families pamphlet in English
• Mira nuestro pacquete de Familias Sanas en Español

 Healthy Families is funded in part by the Illinois Department of Human Services.