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Mission
The Ounce of Prevention Fund is a nonprofit organization in Chicago that promotes healthy early childhood development of children in impoverished communities across Illinois. They base their programs off of privately-funded research done in the area of early childhood development.

Home Visiting for Homeless Families Demonstration Project
Ounce of Prevention partners with providers of home visits and homeless shelters to bring medical resources to homeless families Started in Fall of 2013, the program focuses on helping homeless children and their parents get the medical attention and health-related resources they need.

Educare Chicago
Educare Chicago is an school started by Ounce of Prevention Fund in 2000 that children who live in severe poverty from birth to age five. The school provides stimulating classrooms that help the children develop in the early stages of their lives while also involving the parents in the process as well. The model used for this school has been expanded to 24 other schools in the country.


 * work on parents and children in order to reduce the gap between children in poverty and others