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More than a Memory: Looking Back at Changemakers and Forward to the Changes We’re Making
Tagged with: Changemakers, early childhood, early childhood education, education, middle childhood, prevention
Posted in Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Posted in Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Newly Released Interactive Map Puts Vital Community Data at Users’ Fingertips
ree, interactive tool, the Nebraska Community Opportunity Map, is now live, ensuring that policymakers and other stakeholders will have centralized, easy-to-navigate access to data that’s vital to making decisions about resource allocation, service delivery, emergency planning, city planning, and other critical functions.
Tagged with: community prevention system, community response, Nebraska Children, policy
Posted in Early Childhood, News and Events, Systems, Teen/Early Adulthood
Posted in Early Childhood, News and Events, Systems, Teen/Early Adulthood
Changemakers Pre-Party: Celebrating the People and Organizations Who Create Positive Change
What celebration doesn’t have a pre-party? In honor of our upcoming Changemakers celebration, we look back in gratitude at our community members that have facilitated positive change for Nebraska’s children and families. As we look back at these past few…
Surviving Versus Thriving: The Young Families Thrive Summit Brings Questions and Possible Solutions
“Thrive” is a word we use a lot here at Nebraska Children and Families Foundation, especially in October. Our 2019 Changemakers keynote speaker, Michael Bonner said in a recent interview, “I don’t want to survive. I want to thrive.” During the Young Families Thrive Summit on…
Bouncing Back: Dr. Ginsburg Faciliates Two-Day Resilience Building Workshop
Nebraska stakeholders; including community organizations, youth practitioners, and young adult leaders; gathered in Omaha for a two-day workshop hosted and facilitated by Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, MD, MS Ed. This workshop focused on building the strengths of young people through a…
Posted in Teen/Early Adulthood, Uncategorized
Metro youth explore alternative career paths at Non-Traditional Career Fair
For many young people, a four-year college degree is out of reach due to family obligations or financial restrictions. With that in mind, a collaborative group of service providers in Douglas, Sarpy, and Pottawattamie Counties came together to host a…
Legislative Days 2019 encourages civic engagement in young people
More than 50 young people from across the state gathered for the Nebraska Children’s annual Legislative Days at Camp Carol Joy Holling in February to learn about the legislative process and voice their opinions on bills before the legislature. The…
2018 Conservation Management Internship Program Field Journal, part 3
Over the past few weeks, Nebraska Children has been sharing Field Journals highlighting experiences from the Conservation Management Summer Internship program. Building on the past two installments from Dakota Staggs and the boys group, we pick up with our group of youth…
2018 Conservation Management Internship Program Field Journal, part 2
Over the next several weeks, Nebraska Children is sharing Field Journals highlighting experiences from Nebraska Children’s Conservation Management Summer Internship program. Building on last week’s blog, we pick up with Dakota Staggs and our group of youth from Native Futures as…
Tagged with: beyond school bells, Conservation Management Internship, Girls Inc., internship, Native Futures, Rowe Sanctuary
Posted in Cradle to career, News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Posted in Cradle to career, News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
2018 Conservation Management Internship Program Field Journal, part 1
This summer, Beyond School Bells, a statewide partnership of Nebraska Children, worked with a coalition of partners to host its second annual summer internship program in conservation management. The program has multiple goals: to expose high school students to careers in the…
Tagged with: beyond school bells, Conservation Management Internship, Girls Inc., Native Futures, UNL
Posted in Cradle to career, News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Posted in Cradle to career, News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Growing the Good Life 