Resources for Illinois
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Complex Care at Home for Children
The Complex Care at Home for Children website aims to provide an educational resource for parents and caregivers of children with medical complexity. The site offers information and tools to help facilitate daily care, ensuring...
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Comprehensive Community Based Youth Services (CCBYS)
Comprehensive Community Based Youth Services (CCBYS) serves youth ages 11 to 17 who are involved in the legal system or at risk of crisis (homelessness, etc.). CCBY provides programs to help stabilize families and prevent...
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Congenital Heart Defects (CHDs) Fact Sheets and Articles
Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are conditions that are present at birth and can affect the structure of a baby’s heart and the way it works. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides fact...
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Congenital Heart Disease Information and Resources
The American Heart Association provides information and resources on congenital heart disease (CHDs). It includes details on common types of heart defects, understanding risks, symptoms, the diagnostic process, care and treatment, personal stories, and tools...
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Connections for Abused Women and their Children
Connections for Abused Women and their Children (CAWC) is a Chicago-based nonprofit committed to ending domestic violence. Using a self-help, empowerment approach, CAWC provides a shelter for adults and children, counseling, advocacy, and a 24-hour hotline for...
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Conquering CHD provides awareness, knowledge, community and research to conquer congenital heart disease and defects (CHDs). The Conquering CHD website includes resources to help patients and caregivers understand CHDs from childhood through the teen years...
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Conquering CHD Transition Checklist
Conquering CHD has put together a Conquering CHD Transition Checklist to help youth with congenital heart disease manage their own care as they reach adulthood and move from their pediatric doctor to an Adult Congenital...
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Contact Ministries in Springfield
Contact Ministries is a non-profit, faith-based, social service organization serving the greater Springfield community. It provides free on-site support services and emergency shelter to single women, women with children, families and individuals in poverty. Contact...
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Conversation Guides for End-of-Life Care
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) provides free Conversation Guides to help you have conversations with a family member, friend, or other loved one about your – or their – wishes for care through the...
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Cook For Love is a nonprofit organization providing support, resources and education to individuals, families and clinicians managing phenylketonuria (PKU). The site empowers members of the metabolic disorders community to improve their health through cooking...