The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), in partnership with Casey Family Programs and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign School of Social Work, presents the inaugural Family First Act Summit, Strengthening Illinois through Child and Family Well-Being in Champaign, Illinois. The event brings stakeholders together from across the child welfare system, including state agencies, private agency partners and service providers, local community networks and child welfare experts to take part in a transformative conversation to leverage resources available through the Family First Act to better serve families and children and strengthen child and family well-being outcomes in Illinois. The federal Family First Act, signed into law as part of the Federal Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, increased states’ funding and flexibility to operate programs aimed at strengthening and supporting families to keep children safely at home and out of foster care. Illinois’ Family First Title IV-E Prevention Plan was approved by the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau in October 2021. Illinois’ five-year plan outlines how the state will support families in crisis by mobilizing and broadening the array of evidence-based interventions for parenting skills, substance use disorder prevention and treatment and mental health services to prevent children from entering foster care; encouraging and supporting kinship care; improving services to pregnant and parenting teens; and shortening lengths of stay and improving the quality of care for children for whom residential care is appropriate.