Multidisciplinary Education and Evaluation Consortium (MPEEC) Grant

The Multidisciplinary Education and Evaluation Consortium (MPEEC) supports children suspected of maltreatment by providing comprehensive medical evaluations and coordination with law enforcement and social services. Funded by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, MPEEC addresses serious harm allegations in children under 36 months, ensuring a multidisciplinary approach to care. Its services include expert consultations, medical reviews, and educational efforts, making it vital for community health and child welfare.

Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) promotes the well-being of children, youth, and families by responding to reports of potential abuse and neglect and, when needed providing family-centered care and connection to resources.
Multidisciplinary Education and Evaluation Consortium (MPEEC)
Short Description
Grants that provide funding to support the Multidisciplinary Pediatric Education and Evaluation (MPEEC) hospitals in their mission to identify, evaluate and provide care to children at their respective hospitals who are identified for concerns for all forms of child maltreatment. Each site responds to their communities’ needs including all forms of child maltreatment such as medical neglect, failure to thrive, all serious harms, sexual abuse and the spectrum of fabricated caregiver illness and medical child abuse. The services include identification, comprehensive medically directed comprehensive coordinated subspecialty evaluation, formal consultation, formal collaboration with DCFS and law enforcement and expert medical testimony in criminal, juvenile and administrative courts.
Objective
This grant funds the Multidisciplinary Education and Evaluation Consortium (MPEEC) and its clinical, educational and administrative services. Clinical Services: MPEEC clinical services under this contract support the activities to coordinate multidisciplinary investigations involving DCFS and law enforcement investigators and expert Child Abuse Pediatricians of children who are less than 36 months of age, are residents of Chicago and are reported for the following serious harms allegations regardless of the location of medical treatment:
Head trauma (2/52) Bone fractures (9/59)Internal injuries (4/54)Burn injuries (5/55) children must be admitted to MPEEC hospitals for treatment MPEEC provides medical review of the following types of cases: MPEEC Mandated Cases; MPEEC Onsite Cases; MPEEC Offsite Cases; and MPEEC Opinion Cases.
The MPEEC program also provides Administrative and Leadership Efforts as well as Educational Efforts.

Eligibility

Government Organizations; Education Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Small Businesses