Governor Ricketts signed a proclamation declaring April Child Abuse Prevention Month in Nebraska. Here, DHHS CEO Dannette Smith (left) poses with First Lady Shore (right) who is holding the proclamation.
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Prevent Child Abuse Nebraska Recognizes Every Community’s Role in Supporting Thriving Families
Tagged with: Bring Up Nebraska, child abuse, Child Abuse Prevention, child well being, dhhs, prevent child abuse, Susanne Shore
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We All Thrive Together: Mary Jo Pankoke, First Lady Susanne Shore, and Partners Explain How You Bring Up Nebraska During the Pandemic
Our first virtual event, “Thrive Together,” ended yesterday. While we’re sad that we couldn’t get together in person, we still raised more than $100,000 to support our mission and celebrate the communities we serve. Thrive Together isn’t just a fundraiser.…
Building Communities of Hope: Casey Family Programs Recognizes “Bring Up Nebraska”
On January 15, 2020, Casey Family Programs, the largest private foundation whose aim is to minimize the need for foster care while creating communities of hope, awarded Bring Up Nebraska with the Jim Casey Building Communities of Hope Award.
Nebraska Children and Families Foundation is proud to lead this prevention partnership.
Tagged with: Bring Up Nebraska, child well being, community collaboratives, community prevention system, community response, Connected Youth Initiatve, foster care, foster youth, jim casey, jim casey youth opportunities initiative, Mary Jo Pankoke, prevention, resilience, Susanne Shore
Posted in Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Posted in Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
New Beginnings and Homes: Connected Youth Initiative Supports a Young Woman
A young woman was temporarily homeless. How did she use her resilience, resources, and a little support from a Central Navigator and KAJ Hospitality to find a place she now calls home?
Rewriting the Script: Mental Health Outreach Services Provide Support, Remove Stigmas and Take a Holistic Approach
We’re delighted to play a part in funding the Community and Family Partnership’s efforts, which speaks to our model of community well-being and larger statewide prevention initiative of which we are involved, Bring Up Nebraska. The new mental health outreach service, moreover, fits into our strategy of organizations working together to create the changes we wish to see. Read more.
The Giving Community: Nebraska Children Joins Fremont’s COVID-19 Task Force
Picture a rainy, cloudy day. The sky is a pale gray. Torrents pelt down like ball peen hammers. Suddenly, a man twirling fire walks through the rain, then a clown parades through the puddles. A line of cars slowly forms to watch the performance. This is not a dreamscape; this is the positive change that we envision at Nebraska Children, of which we’re delighted to take part. Read more.
Tagged with: Bring Up Nebraska, community collaboratives, community prevention system, community response
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No Picnic: Saffron Buettner Reveals her Community’s Strategy to Deliver 175-Gallons of Milk and 175 Loaves of Bread to 70 Providers in Two Weeks
When early care providers experienced a bread and milk shortage, how did Saffron Buettner (pictured above) and her fellow community members help? Find out.
Coming Clean: During COVID-19, Community Members Help Early Care Providers Find Disinfectant
Despite COVID-19, many families need to work, and their children need quality care. Without childcare, there can be no essential workers. Without these essential early care workers, there can be no thriving community.
Julie Nash wholeheartedly recognizes this connection. She and her organization serve on a committee that works with children ages birth through 11 and their providers. Through the professional grapevine, Julie caught wind from Shonna Werth, Assistant Vice President of Early Childhood Programs, that a provider in St. Paul, Nebraska needed disinfectant. In fact, if this provider couldn’t find some sanitizer soon, she would have to close her doors.
Learn more about Julie’s hunt for disinfectant.
Tagged with: Bring Up Nebraska, community collaboratives, community response, early childhood, early childhood education, preschool
Posted in Early Childhood, News and Events
Posted in Early Childhood, News and Events
Bring Up Nebraska Partners Working to Meet Needs: First Lady Shore, Motherboard and Generous Funders Refurbish Over 80 Computers for Families in Colfax/Platte Counties
Schuyler, Nebraska, with the help of our First Lady and other generous organizations, provided a terrific example of a community that cultivates positive change through engagement. When families in the Platte/Colfax Counties who were pursuing distance-learning were left with no available technology, the Community and Family Partnership, one of Bring Up Nebraska’s community collaboratives, reached out to its partners for assistance.
Find out what happened next.
Tagged with: Bring Up Nebraska, community collaboratives, community response
Posted in News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Posted in News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Collaboration in Action: Nebraska Flood Relief
When flood crisis calls, what does Community Response, a voluntary system that’s available to all youth and families, do to answer? Find out.
Tagged with: Bring Up Nebraska, community collaboratives, community response, Lift Up Sarpy County
Posted in News and Events
Posted in News and Events
