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IWSE has a legacy in Evanston and the surrounding areas (including the North side of Chicago) of adhering to and
promoting the highest standards of care and support for families with the fewest options. Through our decades of
work in support of infants and toddlers, thousands of lives have been touched and futures improved and made more
secure.
Mission
The Infant Welfare Society of Evanston, Inc is committed to the care and early education of infants and toddlers and to supporting their
families’ efforts to be self sufficient providers and effective parents.
The Infant Welfare Society of Evanston (IWSE) is a multi-service nonprofit social service organization which focuses on
the needs of the youngest, neediest members of our community. By providing full-day child care services as well as
supportive services and parenting support and education to families who are living at risk and who are parenting infants
and toddlers under the age of three, IWSE acts as an advocate, care-taker, and champion for children who live in poverty,
who exhibit developmental delays, who live in situations of homelessness or domestic violence, and who are parented
by teen parents.
While IWSE is a 93-year-old organization, we are constantly improving and building on our successes. We remain on the
cutting edge of best practices and hold ourselves to the highest standards in all areas of practice. Support for the
programs and services of IWSE allows us not only to continue our good works for the community’s most needy and at-risk
families, it allows us to reach more families and touch the lives of more of our community’s tiniest members.
Support for IWSE serves many purposes. It allows us to provide child care for families who could not otherwise afford
this type and quality of care as they work and go to school to improve their futures and the futures of their children.
It allows us to reach more members of our community who are in need of parenting support and assistance in setting and
reaching for family goals. It allows us to adhere to the highest standards of care and service even when government
funding would put us in a position of having to cut corners. To donate through our secure online system,
click here.
Most importantly, support allows us to remain responsive to the needs of the families in our community who need the
most support and care. With General Operating funding, we are able to put resources where they are needed and where they
will achieve the highest impact and improvement in outcomes for children and their families.
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