Raising Our Voices: Setting Our Compass for the Years Ahead

Check out a recording from our virtual gathering in May 2025

This year, Raising Illinois turns five! To celebrate this milestone, Raising Illinois reflected on our first five years and the process of refreshing our Prenatal-to-Three Policy Agenda to ensure it reflects the current needs of infants, toddlers and expecting families across our state. View the recording above from our event on May 21 in which we celebrated where we've been, reflected on our lessons learned and shared how you can join our collective effort for Illinois.

In watching this event you will:

Hear from the Raising Illinois team as we reflect on the last five years of our work together and set our path for the future
Learn more about our Prenatal-to-Three Policy Agenda refresh and how you can share your experience with us
Learn how you can get involved with Raising Illinois

The need for Early Intervention has grown nationally. We've seen the some of the data and research coming from the CDC shows that 1 in 6 children have some type of developmental delay or disability. So there's a high need, and yet the workforce has remained static."

-Benny Delgado

Chief, Bureau of Early Intervention

Other Events From Raising Illinois

Haven't joined us before? Check out our Raising Our Voices: We Need Early Intervention event!

Raising Illinois' Raising Our Voices: We Need Early Intervention event brought the coalition together to discuss the current state of Early Intervention, what a successful EI system looks like and how a more equitable and adequately funded EI system would impact Illinois.

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Community Conversation Toolkit

Resources created for your community to come together and discuss solutions to challenges families with infants and toddlers are facing today.

Raising Illinois invites you to bring together diverse individuals within your community and discuss the needs of infants, toddlers and expecting families in your area as well as steps that can and should be taken to strengthen your community's early childhood system.

Community Conversations can take many shapes and forms depending on who you invite and the size of your community. It is the conversation that is critical – not the format, size or location. To help get your planning started, Raising Illinois has created a handful of helpful resources.

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