The Family Case Management (FCM) program serves pregnant women, infants, and children with high risk medical conditions, DCFS wards of the state, and pregnant and parenting teens.
If you are pregnant, have a child under the age of one, are on Medicaid, or part of a low-income family you may be eligible.
The Family Case Management program can help with:
- Finding a doctor for you prenatal care to make sure you have a healthy baby
- Find a doctor for you children’s care
- understand the stages of your child’s development
- get information on how to become a better parent
- understand the importance of prenatal care
- learn the signs and symptoms of 0-term labor
- understand the importance of regularly scheduled doctor visits
- understand the importance of immunizations
- assist pregnant women in obtaining medical cards
FCM CONSIST OF THREE PROGRAMS THAT SERVES EAST ST. LOUIS, BROOKLYN, PARTS OF CASEYVILLE, FAIRMOUNT CITY, WASHINGTON PARK, ALORTON, CENTREVILLE, AND CAHOKIA. THESE PROGRAMS
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TARGETED INTENSIVE PRENATAL SERVICE (TIPS)
Target Intensive Prenatal Case Management Program enhances the Family Case Management Program by providing intensive prenatal case management services to pregnant women determined by assessment to be at high risk for pre-term delivery. TIPS works closely with pregnant women who are at risk of having a low birth weight or premature infant and ensures that they have access to a physician. The program works to ensure the probability that participants will deliver healthy infants weighing 5.5 pounds or more and helps pregnant women receive prenatal care and other needed medical and social services.
The program enhances Case Management by:
- Adding community-based outreach and retention strategies
- Lowering caseloads to 40 and increasing the number of contacts between case manager and client
- Using public health nurses or licensed social workers as case managers
- Developing explicit linkage to medical care, substance abuse, mental health care, smoking cessation, domestic violence, etc.
- Adding access related services such as transportation, child care, and translation services.
To ensure that women receive individualized assistance, each staff person works with no more that 40 families at any one time. Case managers must have a least two face-t-face contacts with each client each month the client is enrolled
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TEEN PARENT SERVICES (TPS)
Teen Parent Service (TPS) is a program that help pregnant and parenting teen receive an education (high school diploma or GED), training, and delay subsequent pregnancy so they can take care of themselves their families and become a better parent.
Who is eligible for TPS?
You may be able to enroll in the TPS program if you:
- Are under the age of 20 years old
- Are pregnant or a parent
- Do not have your high school diploma or GED certificate
- Receive TANF Cash or KidCare Assist (white medical insurance card)
In addition to the primary goal of completion of High School or its equivalent, the TPS program works with the community partners to ensure that the young parent meets the following goals:
- Decrease subsequent pregnancies
- Increase the use of family planning and preventive healthcare, including well baby checkup and immunizations
- Ensure that children have access to age-appropriate developmental screening by their twelfth and twenty-fourth month
- Increase young parent’s parenting skill by ensuring that young parents have curriculum based parental skills.
- Practice healthy lifestyle
- Learn to budget money
- Assist clients with drugs, alcohol, depression, and relationship problems
T.P.S. can also assist in
- Transportation costs to go to school
- TANF clients may receive reimbursement for school uniforms, books, school supplies, and GED test fees
Clients enrolled in the T.P.S. program can be assured their case manager will help you then set up a step by step plan to finish school, become better parents, and live a healthy life style
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HEALTH WORKS OF ILLINOIS (HWIL)
East Side Health District provide health services to the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services (DCFS) wards from birth to age 21. These wards are in substitute care and the primary goal is to ensure children in foster care receive comprehensive health services. Staff can assist foster parents in finding a physician, understanding a child’s health problems and ensuring that children receive the routine and specialized health care services they nee.
HEALTH WORKS of Illinois (HWIL) is a collaborative effort between the Illinois Department of Human Services and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
The program has six key features:
- An Initial Health Screen must be completed within 24 hours of a child entering custody and before placement into substitute care;
- A Comprehensive Health Evaluation is conducted within 21 days of custody, which includes an Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment program (EPSDT) examination and a vision, hearing, and dental screening when appropriate. Mental health, developmental and alcohol and substance screening are performed when appropriate.
- A Primary Care Physician is selected for the child by the substitute care giver. Participating physicians are required to complete a residency that includes pediatric training, offer 24 hour availability and have hospital admitting privileges.
- Specialty and subspecialty care is made available including dental care, optometry services and other pediatric subspecialty care;
- Medical case manager promote strategies directed at improving access to services identified in the individualized care plan created for each child;
- A Health Passport containing information about the child’s diagnosis, services provided, immunization records and diagnostic studies serves as “portable” medical record and follows the child. In addition, physicians use standardized age-specific medical forms
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