When early care providers experienced a bread and milk shortage, how did Saffron Buettner (pictured above) and her fellow community members help? Find out.
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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
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…
Changemakers 2018 celebrates the power of prevention
October 23 was a day of laughter, empathy, and inspiration as nearly 500 people gathered at the Embassy Suites in La Vista to reflect on the progress made in the past year for vulnerable children and families in Nebraska. The…
Tagged with: Bring Up Nebraska, Changemakers, Grace Abbott, Grace Abbott Award, Mary Jo Pankoke, prevention, Susanne Shore
Posted in Cradle to career, News and Events, Uncategorized
Posted in Cradle to career, News and Events, Uncategorized
What are Protective Factors?
Protective Factors are essential for children, families, and communities to thrive and buffer against Adverse Childhood Experiences. Understanding and implementing the five Protective Factors, such as knowledge of parenting, parental resilience, social connections, concrete supports, and children’s social and emotional competence, is crucial for fostering well-being and preventing child abuse. Prevent Child Abuse Nebraska advocates for these measures through the Bring Up Nebraska initiative.
Tagged with: Bring Up Nebraska, Child Abuse Prevention, PCAN, Prevent Child Abuse Nebraska, protective factors
Posted in Cradle to career
Posted in Cradle to career
Growing the Good Life 