INCCRRA

The Illinois Department of Human Services Division of Early Childhood is requesting the completion of surveys about Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (I/ECMHC) throughout the state. The surveys will help us collect critical data about the consultant's role and requirements, caregiver experiences with consultation services, program administrator engagement with consultants, and home visitor collaborations with consultants. The survey responses will help support the placement of qualified consultants in underserved areas and the allocation of resources to provide comprehensive services. The surveys will be available through Tuesday, April 30th, 2024. 

Surveys

Program Leadership Survey
The purpose of this survey is to gather information about the utilization of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant (“Consultant”) services throughout Illinois. Your voice and opinions are important because you are part of a leadership team that has a consultant in your program. The information from this survey will be used to increase understanding about how consultants serve in your program, what additional support you might need, how data is reported, and how to strengthen the work that consultants provide.
Encuesta de Liderazgo del Programa
Ankieta dla liderów programu

Consultant Survey
The purpose of this survey is to determine how best to support Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultants throughout Illinois. Your work is important and your feedback (including the demographic data) is necessary to ensure that consultants from various backgrounds, programs, and geographic areas have their voices heard.
Encuesta a Consultores
Ankieta dla konsultantów

Family Survey
The purpose of this survey is to determine how best to support Illinois families with young children through Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (I/ECMH) Consultation. Your feedback will be helpful in determining what services you need and how best to provide the services. You and your family’s well-being is a priority and we want to make sure that we hear from families from various backgrounds, programs, and geographic locations.
Encuesta familiar
Ankieta dla rodzin

Child Care/EI/HV Staff Survey
The purpose of this survey is to gather information about the utilization of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant (“Consultant”) services throughout Illinois. Your voice and opinions are important because you receive support from a consultant in your program. The information from this survey will be used to increase understanding about how consultants serve in your program, what additional support you might need, how data is reported, and how to strengthen the work that consultants provide.
Encuesta sobre el personal de cuidado infantil /Intervención temprana /Visitadores del hogar
Ankieta dla personelu działającego w ramach programów Opieka nad Dzieckiem / Wczesna Interwencja / Wizytacje Domowe

Need Help?

If you have any questions about the survey, please email Rachel Salrin at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

INCCRRA is committed to protecting the security and privacy of our data. Regrettably, we recently learned of an incident that occurred at one of our third-party accounting vendors, Blackbaud, Inc., that may have involved INCCRRA data.

What happened?
We were recently notified by our third-party accounting service provider, Blackbaud, of a security incident. At this time, we understand they discovered and stopped a ransomware attack. After discovering the attempted attack, Blackbaud’s Cyber Security team—together with independent forensics experts and law enforcement—successfully prevented the cybercriminal from blocking their system access and fully encrypting files; and ultimately expelled them from their system. Prior to locking the cybercriminal out, the cybercriminal removed a copy of our backup file containing personal information. We immediately took steps to understand the extent of the incident and the data involved.

What information was involved?
It’s important to note that the cybercriminal did not access credit cardholder data. However, we have determined that the file removed may have contained name, address, social security number, and in some instances bank account number. This information was in a Blackbaud database that was used by INCCRRA until 2008.
Because protecting customers’ data is their top priority, Blackbaud paid the cybercriminal’s demand with confirmation that the copy they removed had been destroyed.
Based on the nature of the incident, their research, and third party (including law enforcement) investigation, we have no reason to believe that any data went beyond the cybercriminal, was or will be misused, or will be disseminated or otherwise made available publicly.

How are we responding?
We want all affected to know that we are taking this matter very seriously.  We are notifying those affected so they can take action to protect themselves.  Blackbaud is offering single bureau credit monitoring, protective fraud assistance, and identity theft and fraud resolution services to those affected.  
Ensuring the safety of the data is of the utmost importance to us.  While Blackbaud has informed us that it has no reason to believe any data was or will be misused, disseminated or otherwise made publicly available, we recommend affected individuals review credit reports and bank statements. If individuals see services they did not receive, please contact the provider immediately. 

To help prevent something like this from happening again, we are evaluating our arrangement with Blackbaud and its security safeguards.  We sincerely apologize for this incident and regret any inconvenience it may cause.

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If you received an invitation by email or postal mail to complete the Salary and Staffing Survey, please follow the appropriate link below. Have your invitation email or letter nearby as you will need to reference the password you were sent for the survey. For more information about the Salary and Staffing Survey, you can review the Frequently Asked Questions below or view the previous Illinois Salary and Staffing Survey report.

If you are a Licensed Child Care Center, click here to go to the Licensed Child Care Center Survey 
(haga clic aquí para ir a la Encuesta de Centros de Cuidado Infantil con Licencia)

If you are a Licensed Family Child Care Home, click here to go to the Licensed Family Child Care Home Survey 
(haga clic aquí para ir a la Encuesta de hogares de cuidado infantil familiar con licencia)

Need Help?

If you would prefer to receive a paper and pencil copy of the survey to complete and return in a postage-paid envelope, or if you have any questions about the survey, please contact Betty Akamani at (309) 430-6380. You can also This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Salary and Staffing Survey?

The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) is required by legislative rule (20ILCS505/5.15) to conduct a survey of child care facilities every two years to assess the wages and fringe benefits earned by child care practitioners in the state. It also measures other factors related to wages and the staffing of child care programs. The results of this survey are submitted to the Governor and the General Assembly. IDHS has contracted with INCCRRA to conduct the survey. Results will be analyzed by an institution of higher education.

Who receives the survey?

All active, licensed providers in the statewide Child Care Resource & Referral provider database as of December 31, 2024 will be contacted inviting them to participate in an online survey. For those providers who cannot access the internet or who would rather complete a paper-and-pencil survey, one can be mailed to them.

When is the survey being conducted?

In April 2025, providers with email addresses will be sent an invitation informing them how to access the survey. Shortly thereafter, invitation letters will be mailed to all providers on the statewide database. These letters will give the survey web address and also include information about how to request a paper survey. Providers are asked to complete surveys by May 31, 2025. Follow-up postcards will be mailed to encourage providers to respond to the survey.

Why are there numbers on the survey?

Each provider's survey responses will be completely confidential, but to help track who has and has not completed surveys, an invitation code will be assigned to each provider. Once a survey is completed, a separate ID will be assigned to the survey (not the provider) for data entry purposes, thus making providers' responses to the survey anonymous.

Why should providers complete the survey?

Provider participation is vitally important to the child care community. Data from previous surveys have been used to support projects such as Great START and the Gateways Scholarship Program. This survey provides information critical to enhancing the field for child care professionals in Illinois.

The data sources and references for briefs and infographics produced by INCCRRA can be found in the listings below.  For full reports, references are included within the report either as footnotes or as an appendix.

Poverty and Young Children in Illinois [Infographic]

 February 2015

1. Denavas-Walt, Carmen and Bernadette D. Proctor, U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population
        Reports, P60-249, Income and Poverty in the United States: 2013, U.S. Government
        Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014
   
   
2. "Poverty." WIRE. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Jan. 2015. http://wire.cjc.net/related-data/poverty/
   
   
3. U.S. Census Bureau, Small Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, December 2014
   
   
4.  U.S. Census Bureau, 2013 American Community Survey
   
   
5. Yeung, W. J., Linver, M. R., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2002). How money matters for young children’s
        development: Parental investment and family processes. Child development, 73(6),
        1861-1879.
   
   
6. Yeung, W. J., Linver, M. R., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2002). How money matters for young children’s
        development: Parental investment and family processes. Child development, 73(6),
        1861-1879.