Connecting Families to Local Services
for Young Children

This organization offers professional development and family education for the preschool years as well as preschool and kindergarten transition.

This is a park district preschool program through Oak Lawn, and works with children 3-5 years old.

This organization offers counseling for children and teens, as well as parent support.

This organization provides essential education, services, and resources to at-risk pregnant and parenting individuals, and to families with babies who have died, creating a ripple effect that saves babies, supports grieving families, and strengthens BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People Of Color) communities.

This organization offers speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, aural rehabilitation. They also provide feeding therapy, social work, home therapy services, and teletherapy.

Gigi's Playhouse offers free therapeutic educational, and research-driven programs to individuals with Down syndrome.

This is a mental health non profit based out of Park Forest, IL. They offer individual, couples, and group therapy as well as a day program for adults with disabilities. This organization also offers child counseling services and accepts medicare, medicaid and most major insurance plans. They also offer a sliding scale fee for those who don't have insurance. They offer workshops, including a yearly parenting workshop at no cost.

Helping children find their voices in Palos Heights, IL and the Chicagoland Area.

Motivated OT Mama provides holistic occupational therapy services to moms, infants, and children. They also run community support and play groups to support new parent's mental health and infant/childhood development

Advocate Christ Behavioral Health Care provides mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Westside Children's Therapy offers Pediatric & ABA Therapy Clinics

Trestle Therapy Group offers services in speech pathoogy, as well as occupational and physical therapies.

Offers trauma treatment and counseling services

This organization has trained volunteers and service dogs who work with individuals with various needs.

The Arc of Illinois advocates for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, families and community organizations to ensure that people with disabilities can live, work, learn, and play in communities across the state. The Arc offers resources and information, supports families in their individual advocacy efforts and trains and educates people with disabilities, families and professionals among other things. Below is a list of services we also offer.

This organization offers various therapies, including divorce coaching anger managment, seperation & divorce, eating disorders, child & adolescent issues, substance abuse, and co-occuring disorders.

Pillars provides health and social services, through medical and dental care as well as mental health and social services. These

This organization provides occupational therapy, speech therapy, speech and language services, sensory processing disorders, and early intervention services.

This organization offers speech therapy services.

This organization offers speech and occupational therapy services for children and adults with developmental needs.

Every Step Of The Way Resource Center offers respite care, referrals, and resources for intellectually disabled adults.

Provides behavioral support and parental education classes

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This organization offers early intervention services and therapies.

A.E.R.O. is a special education cooperative that provides special education programs and related services to children with disabilities in member districts.

Motivated OT Mama provides holistic occupational therapy services to moms, infants, and children. They also run community support and play groups to support new parent's mental health and infant/childhood development

Provide resources for moms and babies.

This organization offers prenatal care and services for birth to two year olds and their families. They also have services surrounding pregnancy, parenting, home and nurse home visiting, post-poartum care, and early childhood education.

Provides cloth diapers to those in need

Provides diapers, pull-ups, and wipes to families who are homeless, in shelters, half-way houses, or in transitional living centers.

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Provides hospital and medical services.

Nortwestern Medicine Pediatrics offers routine health exams, immunizations, newborn care including care for premature infants, school, camp, and sports physicals, prevention and managment of chronic illnesses, detection, guidance, and referrals for behavioral and developmental disorders, and coordinated care for children with disabilities.

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Provides hospital and medical services.

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The Ingalls Family Care Center provides hospital, pediatric, and medical services to children and families.

Provides hospital and medical services.

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Dance Classes

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Arab American Family Services provides services including domestic violence/sexual assault intervention and prevention and case managent, and has a community health and research center.

The crisis center provides emergency shelter and essential services for individuals and families victimized by domestic violence.

This Catholic Charities site provides ciris assistance, homelessness prevention, and access to food and basic needs.

Beds Plus Care provides Homeless Prevention, Diversion, Short-Term Stabilization, and Food Rescue as well as customized case managment & services.

Anew provides Domestic Violence Services to those in need.

This is a home visiting program for expectant mothers and children two and under.

The Illinois Department of Human Services provides a variety of resources to families, children, and those in need.

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