Home Visiting Programs

Family Focus Evanston https://www.family-focus.org/center/evanston/ 2010 Dewey Avenue

Evanston, IL 60201

Services available include early childhood home visiting, Family Advocacy Center, after school, Grandparents raising Grandchildren, and community partnership initiatives such as the Foster Street Urban Agriculture program.

Infant Welfare Society of Evanston www.iwse.org

2200 Main Street

Evanston, IL 60202

The Family Support Program offers weekly, intensive home visits using a research-based curriculum, regular goal setting for the family and its members, twice monthly family events that offer education and parent child activity time, yearly developmental screening, assessment, and intervention, on-going assistance through referrals and connections to other agencies and programs.

District 65 Family Center

www.district65.net/domain/522

1500 McDaniel Ave.

Evanston, IL 60201

The District 65 Family Center is home to family resource and support programs that serve qualifying Evanston and Skokie families with children ages birth to three years-old. The Family Center provides parenting education, parental support and education, educational training for parents and their children, and case management services.

Childcare Network of Evanston www.childcarenetworkofevanston.org

1335 Dodge Ave.

Evanston, IL 60201

CNE’s Home Visiting Program is a Head Start/ Early Head Start program that serves families with young children ages birth to five through weekly home visits and twice-monthly group socializations. As a team, parents and the Parent Educators work collaboratively to establish educational and developmental goals for each child.

Metropolitan Family Services https://www.metrofamily.org/community_center/ evanston-skokie-valley/ Phone: (847) 425-7500

The mission of Metropolitan Family Services (MFS) is to provide and mobilize the services needed to strengthen families and communities. Family Support and Prevention is an intensive home and community-based program that works with families who are at risk of entry into the child welfare system due to abuse or neglect of their children. Clients with the program receive individual and family counseling, advocacy and case management services to learn more effective parenting skills and to access needed resources. The goal of the General Counseling Program is to support and strengthen families and individuals through counseling services that are offered in the agency’s community-based centers, clients’ homes and school settings. MFS counseling services are available to low and moderate income clients. Each client‘s fee is determined by the agency’s sliding fee scale and goes through financial registration at the time of intake.