The Infant Welfare Society of Chicago received a capital grant of $200,000 in support of its 2004-2005 capital campaign, Opening Doors to Community Health, from the Searle Funds at the Chicago Community Trust.
Opening New Doors to Community Health is a two-year, $3 million capital campaign led by the Board of Directors to support the acquisition of the new location for the Infant Welfare Society and surrounding property and its transformation into a full-service community health center.
The Infant Welfare Society of Chicago is relocating and opening the Angel Harvey Infant Welfare Society of Chicago Community Health Center at 3600 W. Fullerton Ave. in Logan Square to be nearer to those it serves and make health care more accessible to children and women in need. The move will enable Infant Welfare to expand and improve upon its array of medical services for children and women. The transformation of the building into a community health center is underway with completion projected for March 2005.
The new center will continue to provide pediatric care, dental care, women's health care, mental health care and counseling, and literacy and language programs to patients who typically have no health or dental insurance and struggle to make ends meet, even while working full-time jobs. The programs and services provided by Infant Welfare are available to all communities in Chicago, and the center serves all children and women who come in for care, regardless of their ability to pay.
Founded in 1911, the Infant Welfare Society was an early pioneer and advocate for child and maternal health. Infant Welfare provides pediatric care; obstetrics, gynecology and preventive health care for women; pediatric dental care and orthodontics; family counseling and therapy; and educational programs in parenting, child development and literacy. Specialty pediatric services include asthma management, lead poisoning prevention and treatment and hearing and vision screenings. Last year, Infant Welfare provided services to more than 8,600 children and women, and dental services to an additional 5,000 children.
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