October 18, 2023

Duckworth Announces More Than $900,000 In Congressionally Directed Spending to Support Expanding Healthcare Access for Chicagoans

 

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today announced that $978,000 she secured through a Fiscal Year 2023 Congressionally Directed Spending Request will be sent by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago (IWS Family Health). The funding Duckworth secured will help IWS Family Health expand its integrated and coordinated healthcare home to meet the urgent needs of under-resourced communities in Chicago’s Belmont Cragin, Hermosa and Logan Square neighborhoods.

“Our state and our nation are stronger when we invest in our communities and families—and that’s one of the things Congressionally Directed Spending allows us to do,” said Duckworth. “I’m so proud I was able to secure this critical support to help expand healthcare access for children and families in Chicago. Every family deserves high quality care, and making sure our children have what they need to be healthy and grow shouldn’t be dependent on their parents’ income level, the neighborhood they live in or the color of their skin.”

“All of us at IWS Family Health are humbled and thrilled to receive crucial support that improves the services that we’ve provided to children and their families for over 115 years,” said IWS Family Health CEO Jerry Isikoff, PhD.

With this support, IWS Family Health will renovate and improve their clinic at 3600 West Fullerton Avenue in Chicago and establish a new location on Chicago’s West Side or nearby suburb to expand medical and behavioral health services.

In FY22, Duckworth and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) secured $211 million through Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) for Illinois and another $182 million for Illinois in FY23. A map detailing where funding has gone throughout Illinois can be found here.

The CDS process does not represent new spending, rather it enables Members of Congress to allocate existing funding for specific local projects by units of government, nonprofit organizations and other organizations that meet strict eligibility requirements.

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