The Child Saving Institute awarded their A.W. Clark Award to Nebraska Children and Families Foundation at their November 5th Luncheon. The award is named for CSI’s founder, and is given to an organization that has demonstrated vision and continuing outstanding…
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Nebraska agencies come together to launch System of Care planning
This morning, DHHS, behavioral health, the department of education and many other agencies convened in Lincoln to kickoff planning for the System of Care. The goal of the system is to provide more streamlined, organized access to mental and behavioral…
Nebraska’s Child-Welfare Report Card
At the Nebraska Children and Families Foundation, we monitor 8 risk and well-being indicators across the state to assess the overall condition of children in each county. This is one of the ways we determine which communities have the greatest…
Federal grant funds empower Nebraska to create a System of Care
By Betty Medinger, LCSW, Vice President of System Integration The US Department of Health and Human Services’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) has awarded a “System of Care” planning grant to Nebraska. The state effort will be led…
Tagged with: mental health, SAMHSA, SOC planning, substance abuse, system of care grant
Posted in Cradle to career
Posted in Cradle to career
How does Nebraska stack up on Adverse Childhood Experiences?
A few weeks ago, we talked about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) from a national perspective. After looking at the national numbers, we started wondering how we, as a state, measured up. Did Nebraska’s kids experience more ACEs? Or did we…
Tagged with: ace, child abuse, Child Abuse Prevention, early childhood mental health, home visitation
Posted in Cradle to career
Posted in Cradle to career
5 Ways to Keep Your Kids Learning For The Last Month of Summmer
According to the Afterschool Alliance, less than 25% of Nebraska’s students attend any kind of summer learning program. And the studies are clear – when students suspend learning activities over the summer months, they fall behind. But don’t worry –…
For your consideration: Could Canada’s Roots of Empathy program work in Nebraska?
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…
Tagged with: Child Abuse Prevention, roots of empathy, social emotional
Posted in Cradle to career, Middle Childhood
Posted in Cradle to career, Middle Childhood
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
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…
Growing the Good Life 