Resources

Nebraska Children administered grants that fund programs aimed at improving outcomes for at-risk babies and toddlers.

Nebraska Children's C4K initiative is dedicated to ensuring that communities, primarily rural areas, can grow and prosper by strengthening and sustaining a quality early childhood care and education infrastructure. The primary work includes partnering with communities to prioritize child care, delivering essential resources, and offering expertise.

National leader in early childhood development research and policy, the goal of this Chicago-based organization is that every American child have high-quality early childhood care experiences.

The Center aims to improve life outcomes or children all over the world through its groundbreaking reserach, communications and development of childcare best practices.

Based at Vanderbilt University, this center was created to increase the capacity of Head Start and other early childcare programs, thereby improving the social and emotional outcomes for vulnerable children.

Educare is a research-based childcare program that prepares at-risk children for success in school and nurtures early learning.

Compendium of information from the Department of Health and Human Services, including a breakdown of the Protective Factors and how they work.

This program is based in Chapel Hill and funded by the Children's Bureau. It provides service through a coordinated effort with four other national organizations and initiatives with the aim of preventing child abuse and neglect and supporting families.

PCA America builds awareness, provides education and inspires hope to everyone involved in the effort to prevent the abuse and neglect of America's children. Nebraska Children is the home of Prevent Child Abuse Nebraska, the state chapter of PCAA.

This article provides groundbreaking concepts for building effective prevention systems in communities. Among its authors is Deb Daro, Ph.D. of Chapin Hall, whose work is being used by state-level policy makers and funders to support community-based prevention efforts.

Nebraska Children's initiative focused on improving early childhood mental health by training caregivers.

NAIMH is a collaborative group of caring adults who have a common interest in the well-being of young children and their families.

WAIMH promotes the mental well-being and healthy development of infants throughout the world, taking into account cultural, regional, and environmental variations, and to generate and disseminate scientific knowledge.

Nebraska Children's initiative to improve access to and quality of afterschool and summer learning opportunities.

The Expanded Learning and Afterschool Project is a 50-state initiative harnessing the power of networks and leaders to help schools and communities leverage the time beyond school to accelerate student achievement by

The National AfterSchool Association is the leading voice of the afterschool profession dedicated to the development, education and care of children and youth during their out-of-school hours.

This innovative, youth-led, evidence-based initiative has achieved success addressing the policies affecting young people with life experiences like foster care, juvenile justice, homelessness, and human trafficking and that are otherwise disconnected from family support. Within Connected Youth Initiative programs, we work with young people to help them increase Protective and Promotive Factors, achieve educational goals, slow dual-generation cycles of systems involvement and poverty through economic stability, and support them to engage meaningfully in their own community.

This initiative, part of the BRIDGE Family Resource Connector Network, is a hub—connecting families with resources through a dedicated Community Navigator. Led by the client, the Navigator works to tailor services that will meet individual needs.

Nebraska Children's summer camp that reunites siblings who have been separated by foster care or adoptive placements.

Most recent report from the Nebraska Foster Care Review Office, including recommendations for improvement.

The mission of the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative is to ensure that young people—primarily those between ages 14 and 25—make successful transitions from foster care to adulthood.