Prevention Initiative (PI)

Prevention Initiative, along with Preschool for All, is administered by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and funded under the Early Childhood Block Grant (ECBG).

PI funds are distributed to eligible applicants, including school districts, social service agencies, and other entities, on a competitive basis. PI grantees are required to implement research-based, comprehensive, and intensive prevention services to expecting parents and families with children age 2 and under who are at risk of academic failure. All the program models share common components such as home/personal visits, links to community resources, group connections, screening, and individual family service planning/goal-setting processes. PI programs may be center-based (daycare settings, family literacy programs) or provide home visitation services only.

Source of definition: Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE)

IECAM provides data on the number of sites and proposed capacity for PI programs on the Data Hub for years 2020 and later by state, county, Birth to Five Illinois region, school district, and Chicago community area. 

Data for years 2023 and earlier are available by all geographic regions available on the IECAM database and on the Excel spreadsheet for FY2024 service data.

 

Numbers for proposed capacity include children receiving both center- and home-based services. Generally, about 80% of children enrolled in PI receive home-based services.

Note: Prevention Initiative proposed capacity data are reported by the administrative site of programs providing services, not the addresses of children served. Therefore, some programs could be serving children in other geographic areas (counties, school districts) than their administrative site. For example, a program that serves three counties with a proposed capacity of 60 will report all 60 in the county of the administrative site.

Agencies or organizations that have received grants from ISBE to provide or subcontract PI services in their area.

Grantees may serve single county or multicounty area. Grantee data is available upon request.