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Omaha Gives!

On May 22, Voices for Children in Nebraska will be participating in the Omaha Community Foundation’s Omaha Gives! 24-hour challenge. Make a gift to Voices for Children (or one of the other 300 participating nonprofits) and show off Omaha’s spirit of giving. To learn more about the event, visit http://OmahaGives24.org [...]

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Voices for Children: The Lifelong Impact of Poverty

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Individual Development Accounts

All Nebraska families deserve the opportunity to live “the good life,” but for many years, policies that encourage families to build & sustain assets as a means of financial security have left lower income families out. New ways to help families build assets have demonstrated success and are a potential tool in helping more families [...]

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Time for a change: Locking youth up in Nebraska

In Nebraska we pride ourselves on having built the good life for our kids and families. Nebraskans can be proud of having made wise investments that have helped our state, children, and families weather recent tough times better than most. Unfortunately, when it comes to juvenile justice, we have a lot more work to do [...]

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Kids Count in Nebraska 2012 Report

The 20th annual Kids Count in Nebraska Report continues to provide pertinent information on the well-being of all children in areas of health, education, safety and economic stability and features a commentary on the Nebraska child welfare system. The report has a new look and a new focus on visual representation of the data — think graphs, [...]

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Cutting Our Future: How Budget Cuts Affect Nebraska’s kids

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” We all know that preventing something bad from happening is better than fixing a problem after it starts. Time and time again, best practices and research show that intervening early in the lives of vulnerable children can prevent problems from getting bigger and costing more [...]

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