Parent Education

Parenting, like most life skills, does not come naturally. It is learned through study, discipline, networking, prayer and reflection.

Parent Education is a design for adults to examine the sort of family they want to have in terms of love, respect, healthy interaction, and well-rounded development. Programs are designed for specific purposes. Click here to read more

Illiana Coalition  

Illiana is a dynamic and experienced, although new faith-based, inter-denominational, nonpartisan intermediary organization committed to the revitalization and empowerment of communities through the strengthening of families and the eradication of poverty.

Current Services:

Curriculum Certification for: Foundation for Families® Worth the Wait! Choices 1 + 1 Healthy Marriages and Relationships Organizational Capacity Building Training & TA Administrative Know How

Program Design & Implementation That Pass Audit So You Want To Be A 501 (C) 3 Redesigned for Sustainability Serving With Government Assistance Public Policy for Novice

Programs & Presentations:

• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Child Support
• Remedial Home Training:
• When Parents Need to Make Mid-Course Corrections

Speakers Bureau:
Illiana has a large and diverse cadre of informative, motivational, and in some instances just down right entertaining speakers who can provide programs on a wide range of topics related to the family, family formation, marriage, interpersonal relationships, abstinence, child support enforcement, unemployment insurance, credit and assets development. Contact us directly or visit our web site for more information.

Policy Analysis:
Illiana's public policy experts can review state, county (parish), or local level government policies in support of your identification of gaps in the system or to support your program design initiative, or to assess probable impact for issues related to family formation for low-income populations.

For more information on any of these services, please visit our website, www.illianafcr.org, or call us at 708.206.2448.

Family Support America

Family Support America promotes family support as the nationally recognized movement to strengthen and support families and places the principles of family support practice at the heart of every setting in which children and families are present.

For more information you can call 312.338.0900 or visit there web site at www.familysupportamerica.org.

Active Parenting

Active Parenting Publishers, Inc., was founded in 1980 by Dr. Michael H. Popkin, a former child and family therapist and Coordinator of Child and Family Services for Northside Community Mental Health Centers in Atlanta, Georgia.

APP delivers quality education programs for parents, children and teachers to schools, hospitals, social services organizations, churches and the corporate market. The most popular program is Active Parenting Now, for parents of children ages five to twelve. Active Parenting Publishers is recognized as an innovator in the educational market and is committed to our mission of developing human potential through our programs.

Following the success of APDP, Active Parenting Publishers went on to produce its revised version, Active Parenting Today (revised again in 2002 and released under the name Active Parenting Now). This was followed by:

Free Parenting Newsletter 

The Dibble Fund - Relationship skills for teens

Sooner or later, 90% of today’s adolescents will get married – and half will be divorced within 7 years.

The non-profit Dibble Fund offers a variety of materials for teaching kids and teens how to build more successful relationships – without religious or political agendas.