Caregiver Resources
Since 1999, Almost Home Kids has been at the forefront of providing transitional and respite care for children with complex medical needs. Our mission is to deliver high-quality transitional care in a warm, home-like environment, while equipping families with the training and confidence they need to successfully care for their child at home.
Our experienced, highly skilled team is dedicated to addressing every aspect of your child’s medical and developmental needs with compassion and expertise. We understand the challenges that come with caring for a medically complex child, and we are here to support you at every step — providing guidance, education, and hands-on care with one clear goal: helping your child safely transition home as soon as possible.
Contact Nursing Staff
Chicago Location: Call 312.229.0170, and select option 1
Naperville Location: Call 630.271.9155, and select option 1
Peoria Location: Call 309.573.0700
Online Resources
Browse a listing of online resources below. You may also be interested in our listing of Governmental Agencies.
Dedicated to the Health of all Children, this physician-run academy provides an excellent source of information to parents.
Visit www.aap.org
Whether your child has just been diagnosed with cancer, is going through treatment, or is trying to stay well after treatment, we can help you find the answers you need.
This statewide health organization has the state’s leading experts on lung disease as members. The mission is to make a world free of lung disease and to promote lung health.
Statewide Health Information Resource for Families of Children and Youth with Special Needs. It is committed to empowering persons with disabilities to achieve full participation in community life through informed choices.
Visit:
www.thearcofil.org
www.thearcofil.org/about-us/programs/family-support-network/
We equip people with disabilities with the tools to overcome societal barriers to inclusion by imparting independent living skills, teaching economic self-sufficiency, and enabling people with disabilities to transition to autonomous community living.
Visit: www.accessliving.org
The Chicago Bar Association founded this nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the legal rights of low-income persons with disabilities and senior citizens in Cook County.
Visit www.cdelaw.org
Provides unique intensive group method of special education which expects and demands active learning and participation by the child in attempting to overcome his/her motor disability (i.e., cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury), The founder’s motto: When you do not educate the child to be independent, you educate the child to be dependent. Dr. Andras Peto.
Children’s Respite Homes of America (CRHA) is an awareness program of the National Center for Pediatric Palliative Care Homes (NCPPCH). Our shared mission is to scale, strengthen, and sustain community-based home care models that provide a temporary haven for families with children who have medical complexities to receive much-needed overnight respite and support.
A private not-for-profit service agency that initiates provides and promotes services for people with developmental disabilities and their families, within their communities.
Easter Seals DuPage and the Fox Valley Region provides services for infants, children and adults with disabilities to achieve maximum independence, and to provide support for the families who love and care for them.
Visit: www.easterseals.com/dfv/
Ever Thrive Illinois works to improve the health of women, children, and families over the lifespan through community engagement, partnerships, policy analysis, education, and advocacy.
Visit: www.everthriveil.org
Since 1980 this foundation has enriched the lives of children with life-threatening medical conditions through its wish-granting work.
Visit: www.wish.org
Providing “Trusted Health Information for You” this government website has topics and news on conditions, diseases and wellness.
Visit: medlineplus.gov
Special Education Services for students with learning disabilities are covered under the Individuals with Disabilities Learning Act (IDEA) which provides states with federal funds to help make special education services available to students with disabilities.
Visit: www.ncld.org
Helping parents of children with critical illnesses by providing support to them in the home, in hospital and via web resources.
Visit www.normalmoments.org
An independent Services Coordination Agency in DuPage County, providing individual service coordination for people with disabilities.
Visit: www.pactinc.net
The Kids Equipment Network
We are a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to connecting children with special needs, from birth to 21 years of age, who have little or no funding, with needed durable adaptive equipment.
Visit: www.tken.org
Governmental Agencies
Your resource for many Health Services: mental health, community and environmental health.
Visit: dph.illinois.gov
WIC is a federally funded program to aid low income pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women and children up to the age of 5 who are at nutritional risk. The Food and Nutrition Services branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture makes grants to states to provide supplemental foods, health care referral and nutrition education to women, infants and children.
Visit:
https://www.dhs.state.il.us/page.aspx?item=30513
Use their Office Locator for a listing of local agencies providing WIC services: https://www.dhs.state.il.us/page.aspx?module=12&officetype=11&county=
This site provides resources on immunizations for children from Illinois Department of Health.
Visit: https://dph.illinois.gov/topics-services/prevention-wellness/immunization.html
Illinois Department of Human Services provides services to help families meet basic needs and to become self-sufficient.
DSCC information library and resources for families and children with special health care needs.
Visit: http://dscc.uic.edu/
The DSCC Facebook page is always being updated with resources, new products and local events.
Visit: https://www.facebook.com/dscc.uic.edu
