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UPCOMING EVENTS


IMCHC Southern Illinois Chapter Meeting
Wednesday, July 15th
12:15pm-2:15pm
Municipal West Building
200 Potamac in Mt. Vernon

For questions and to R.S.V.P. please contact Lilah Handler.


IMCHC’s Lake County Chapter Meeting
Wednesday, August 19th
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
University of Illinois Extension
100 South Highway 45,
Grayslake, IL

For questions and to R.S.V.P. please contact Sara Howard.


Inaugural Junior Fundraiser

 


 

ANNUAL MEETING 2009

 

 

 

NEW

 

IMCHC is looking to hire a Project Director to lead the Illinois Coalition for School Health Centers. Click here for a job description.

 

 

Policy Forum - Friday, March 6th 

Thank you to everyone who attended the March 6th policy forum on CHIP reauthorization and the economic recovery package. Special thanks to Michelle Saddler from Governor Pat Quinn's office who provided a response to the presentations from IMCHC and Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.

 

Click here to download a copy of IMCHC's CHIP presentation, a handout on anticipated CHIP effects on Illinois  and the Shriver Center's presentation on the recovery package.

 

Contact Kathy Chan with any questions.


 


Family Case Management Fact Sheet

IMCHC has produced a fact sheet on Family Case Management with promising practices and recommendations click here to view.

 

Join IMCHC’s new project Campaign to Save Our Babies, which seeks to reduce racial disparities in maternal and infant mortality by 50% in ten years and completely by 2033. Click here to download our endorsement form.

 

ACTION ALERTS

 

Urge your legislators to protect children and families!

 

Urge your legislators today to support a fair budget that will:

1.  Increase the personal income tax to 5% to create a more consistent revenue source to support health care, human services and education;

2.  Protect low and moderate-income families with an increase in the state earned income tax credit (EITC); and

3.  Expand and update the state sales tax base to capture additional revenue from services.


Click here to see how your legislators voted on key tax legislation. Thanks to Voices for Illinois Children for providing this roll call list.
 

Your urgent action is needed TODAY to help protect our states' most vulnerable populations!


 

 

 


 

NEWS & MEDIA
  

Robyn Gabel, IMCHC Executive Director and Co-President of the Campaign for Better Health Care, was recently featured on ABC Channel 7’s health segment, where she discussed health care resources for the uninsured. You can view the clip, courtesy of ABC Chicago.

 

You can also download IMCHC’s health care resource list here.

 

 

 

IMCHC Executive Director Robyn Gabel was invited to present testimony to the joint committee of the Chicago City Council’s Human Relations and Health Committees on June 18th. She talked about the physical, financial and emotional toll being uninsured has on individuals and their families. She also urged city council members to fight for affordable, high-quality health care for all at the state and federal levels.

 

Read her testimony here.


 

Dr. Reshma Dhake & Kathy Chan on the Illinois Maternal & Child Health Coalition call-in show.

To contact Dr. Dhake, visit the Complete Care Dental website.

 

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