Recently, Nebraska Children and Families Foundation announced a $300,000 award over two years to the Fremont Area United Way on behalf of the Fremont Family Coalition. The funding will be used to build a Connected Youth Initiative (CYI) system to…
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Inside Fremont’s Connected Youth Initiative
Tagged with: Connected Youth Initiatve, CYI, foster care, Fremont, juvenile justice, project everlast, SIF
Posted in Teen/Early Adulthood
Posted in Teen/Early Adulthood
Care packages for Nebraska foster youth
For the fourth year, Project Everlast youth councils will be collecting items and donations for care packages. The councils will assemble, wrap and distribute packages to young people in foster care, or who have just aged out, who don’t have family…
Kids need to be kids . . . especially when they’re in foster care
Nebraska policymakers are currently discussing how to implement the Strengthening Families Act (SFA) in our state. While there are many parts to this important legislation, what we believe will be most critical to system-served youth are the components that relate…
More details on the Connected Youth Initiative
What happened? The Corporation for National and Community Service has awarded a Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grant so that the Nebraska Children and Families Foundation. The grant will be used to expand a successful model to rural communities across the…
Tagged with: foster care, foster youth, juvenile justice, project everlast
Posted in Teen/Early Adulthood
Posted in Teen/Early Adulthood
SOCIAL INNOVATION FUND GRANT WILL BRING $15 MILLION TO RURAL NEBRASKA
Nebraska Children and Families Foundation today announced that it will receive a grant from the Social Innovation Fund (SIF) to expand services to unconnected young people in rural Nebraska. The SIF grant – one of the largest ever given to…
Tagged with: foster care, foster youth, juvenile justice, project everlast, SIF
Posted in Teen/Early Adulthood
Posted in Teen/Early Adulthood
Project Everlast Councils Celebrate Foster Youth Awareness Month
This May, Project Everlast youth councils across the state held events to celebrate Foster Youth Awareness Month. Here are just a few of the outstanding events that the young people put together. LINCOLN The Lincoln council held a hot dog…
Project Everlast Lincoln has launched
By Mary Kate Gulick, Associate Vice President As of July 1, 2014, Lincoln now has a fully operational Project Everlast initiative. More than two years in the making, this new network of services will serve youth with foster care experience as…
Celebrating our superheroes – Project Everlast Fremont
By Brenda Weyers, Associate VP, Visual Brand On Friday, May 2, Fremont’s Project Everlast Council gathered at for lunch at the Wooden Windmill to honor their “superheroes.” Their way of celebrating Foster Youth Awareness Month was to call attention…
Project Employment Launches: Job skills for independent living
Project Employment is a 5-day program for young people age 14-24 who are in foster care now, or have been in foster care in the past. In this program, these young adults will get the employment skills that local employers are…
Tagged with: employment, foster care, job readiness, project everlast
Posted in Teen/Early Adulthood
Posted in Teen/Early Adulthood
Unicameral passes LB 853, creating Bridge to Independence program for young people aging out of foster care
Last week, the legislature voted 42-0 to pass LB 853. Known casually as the “LB 216 Cleanup Bill,” this bill was written to implement the Young Adult Voluntary Supports and Services Act that last year’s LB 216 required. Putting into…
Growing the Good Life 