By Mary Kate Gulick I walked into the second grade classroom at West Woodland Elementary School in north Seattle with no defined expectations. My sister and her 10-month-old baby girl, Stella, had been participating in “Roots of Empathy” here since…
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For your consideration: Could Canada’s Roots of Empathy program work in Nebraska?
Tagged with: Child Abuse Prevention, roots of empathy, social emotional
Posted in Cradle to career, Middle Childhood
Posted in Cradle to career, Middle Childhood
Program success story: Omaha’s PALS
The PALS Program (Preparation for Adult Living Services) helps at-risk young people transition to a successful adulthood. Managed by the Central Plains Center for Services and funded by Nebraska Children and Families Foundation, PALS has helped the youth it serves…
Keeping Adverse Childhood Experiences at the center of prevention efforts
At Nebraska Children and Families Foundation, we talk a lot about prevention. How do you keep kids out of the child welfare system? Prevention. How do you curb the drop out rate and encourage success in school among kids at…
Tagged with: ACEs, adverse childhood experiences, Child Abuse Prevention, PIWI, prevent chlid abuse nebraska
Posted in Cradle to career
Posted in Cradle to career
Case Study: Housing for Julia and her newborn
Project Everlast has been providing grants to partner organizations in Omaha since the program began. One of these partners is Heartland Family Service. Their Passages program, which is funded 100% by Project Everlast, provides housing assistance to homeless state wards…
Two sisters. One great weekend at Camp Catch-Up
This weekend, Rivercrest Camp hosted Camp Catch-Up. This unique camp reunites brothers and sisters who have been separated by foster care or adoptive placements. Tiffany Cheval and her biological sister Kayli Naeve have attended the camp for the last few…
Nebraska Impact: the model for change that actually works
By Jenny Skala, Vice President of Community Impact Every nonprofit organization has a mission. And the more focused that mission is, the easier it is to see the way forward. I mean, if your mission is to ensure that the…
Feedback from the Field: Success in the Chadron FAST Program
Families and Schools Together (FAST) is a program that NCFF provides grant funds and program support to in an effort to strengthen school-community relationships as well as support healthy family interactions. The program gives parents a structured time to bring…
Posted in Early Childhood
Nebraska is part of the national foster care conversation
By Amy Peters, Statewide Training Advisor for Project Everlast At Project Everlast, we place great value on the perspectives of people who have experienced the foster care system first hand, and we work diligently to make sure that their voices…
The Resilience of Youth: Part III – Traci’s Story
It’s been 20 years since Traci aged out of foster care. And her story illustrates one universal truth. Support makes the difference. Supportive families mean the difference between school success and academic underachievement. Supportive relationships are the difference between recovering…
Developing social capital: A key to successful adulthood
Those who work with youth in foster care often talk about transitioning to an independent adulthood. But is any successful adult really independent? We have our friends, our study groups, our churches, our book clubs, our professional connections and many…
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Growing the Good Life 