Children's health insurance

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If your children do not have health insurance, there is a good chance they can get it. If you have kids who are 18 and younger, Beacon’s CHIP Program will help you get ALL KIDS!

What is All Kids?

Formerly known as Kid Care, All Kids is Illinois’s no cost or low-cost health insurance program for kids. ALL KIDS insures every child regardless of medical conditions, immigration status, or income. With ALL KIDS the parents or caretakers of insured children may be eligible for coverage too!

A few examples of the covered benefits for ALL KIDS are:

• Dental Services
• Regular Checkups and shots
• Emergency room services
• Maternity Care
• Prescription Care
• Transportation for emergency medical care
• Eye glasses
• Mental Health Treatment
• Substance abuse/ early intervention service

Call to learn more about Illinois’ ALL KIDS Healthcare Program and get help applying and our incentives for signing up!

A Beacon representative is available to visit your Facility or make a private appointment to assist individuals or groups in the ALL KIDS health insurance application process. If you are interested please bring the following documents with you and we can begin the process immediately:

• PROOF OF IDENTITY (if available) – Certified Copy of Birth Certificate or a Picture ID (state issued or school ID)

        AND

• PROOF OF INCOME (if available) – Most recent check stubs or Unemployment checks/Benefit Letter

Want more information? Have questions? Contact Mrs. Dunne or Ms. Ward at 773-233-3821

CHIPRA Outreach Team

The purpose of the CHIPRA Outreach Team is to assist families in need in obtaining health insurance, and helping to connect them with an accessible health care resource.  The team visits families in a variety of locations including shelters, community centers, schools, and homes.  We are trying to reach families that have fallen through the cracks of the health care system.  Additionally, we are working to overcome barriers that prevent families from obtaining health coverage, including lack of transportation, transience, cultural and linguistic barriers, lack of knowledge and/or understanding of services, and stigma and fear associated withreceiving public services.

While our original target group was families living in shelters, we have found other high need areas where we have extended our services, including;

• Teens that are doubled up, couch surfing, sheltered, and on the streets – Chicago’s 2011 Point-In-Time Homeless Count documents increasing numbers of homeless teens - we developed teen focused materials and facebook page to target this group,
• Working class families affected by the economic downturn who are accessing public services for the first time and lack knowledge of available services/benefits,
• Families that are further away from the city and have more difficulty accessing services,
• Latino Families who may be afraid of accessing medical benefits for their children

Our CHIPRA Team has conducted over 100 presentations in the past year in a variety of locations including, Shelters, Libraries, Health and Service Fairs, Food Pantries, and Community Centers.

Service Collaborators

In order to best serve and reach as many in-need families and teens as possible our Team has collaborated with a variety of service providers including;

Chicago Public Schools, Students In Temporary Living Situations Program
• Chicago Department of Family and Support Services
• Chicago Public Libraries
• Chicago Police Department Central Control Group – 1st and 18th Districts
• DCFS LAN Meetings
• 24 Family/Teen Shelters Outstation Sites
• Chicago Federation of Labor