Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health

For nearly four decades, the Illinois Caucus on Adolescent Health (ICAH) has organized and trained young people to advocate for issues that directly affect their lives and communities. Since launching in the late 1970s, it has had a focus on building youth leadership skills and serving marginalized populations, including low-income, immigrant, homeless, LGBTQ, and pregnant and parenting adolescents. Today, ICAH operates as a network of empowered youth and allied adults working to transform health care and other systems to support the sexual health, rights, and identities of young people, all of which intersect with and affect their mental health and overall well-being. It engages youth, ages 16-22, and their communities through peer education, gatherings, and campaigns for systems change and culture shift. This general operating support grant enables ICAH to expand its programming for youth in Chicago, restructure and re-launch its professional development for educators and other adults who work with young people, and to conduct strategic planning to re-imagine its work in Chicago and across the state post-pandemic.

To support the Youth Advocacy Project.

To support the Youth Advocacy Project.

To support the Youth Advocacy Project.

To support youth advocacy and policy efforts.