Significant collaborative efforts have emerged to promote children's healthy physical, cognitive, social and emotional development in Illinois, with which Illinois' ABCD II Project was closely coordinated. For example, the ABCD project collaborated with the Illinois Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics (ICAAP) and the Enhancing Developmentally Oriented Primary Care (EDOPC) project to develop training curricula on social emotional development and perinatal depression.

This section contains resources for "Engaging Leaders" developed by Illinois.

• Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD II): Illinois’ Healthy Beginnings: Overview of ABCD II and the Pilot Project, Powerpoint presentation
  Illinois ABCD II Advisory Committee. (October 19, 2005). This resource is an ABCD project update/overview for the Pilot Project Advisory Subcommittee meeting.
  IL Attachment 1 Advisory Committee Power Point Oct 2005_1.ppt

• Strategic Plan for Building a Comprehensive Children’s Mental Health System in Illinois.
  Illinois Children’s Mental Health Partnership (ICMHP). (June 2005). This document contains the full set of recommendations and strategies included in the ICMHP Children’s Mental Health (CMH) Plan. The ICMHP was mandated by the Children’s Mental Health Act of 2003 to develop a CMH Plan. Members of the ICMHP and its six standing committees–over 200 individuals and groups–worked and deliberated for over a year to develop the recommendations and strategies included in the plan which is a statewide strategic blueprint for promoting children’s social and emotional development and improving the children’s mental health system. (From Executive Summary)
  http://www.ivpa.org/childrensmhtf/pdf/ICMHP_Strategic.20050908.pdf

• Illinois Healthy Beginnings: Advisory Committee Structure
  Illinois ABCD Project. (2007). This document (shared at the June 18, 2007 ABCD TA call) describes how the Illinois ABCD Project (Illinois Healthy Beginnings) engaged stakeholders by creating an Advisory Committee and five subcommittees.
  Illinois Healthy Beginnings-Structure of Advisory Committee for ABCD II.doc

• Engaging and Working with Stakeholders
  Scott Allen, Lori Smith, Carrie Fitzgerald (2007). This presentation (shared at the June 18, 2007 ABCD TA call) describes why stakeholder engagement is important and details how three states (Illinois, Utah, and Iowa) reached out to stakeholders and structured their advisory groups.
  Engaging & Working with Stakeholders 6-18-07.ppt

• Illinois Healthy Beginnings Advisory Committee
  Illinois Healthy Beginnings (2007) One-page discussion of issues Illinois faced developing their Stakeholder Advisory Committee
  Stakeholder Illinois_Healthy_Beginnings-Structure_of_Advisory_Committee_for_ABCD_II.doc