Thanks for helping make 2016 a great year to be a kid in Nebraska. The numbers don’t lie. This year, Nebraska received a 9th place ranking of best state to be a kid. We’re proud of the ranking, but we’re aiming to be the best. Thanks to your ongoing support, here’s how we…...
Cutting Our Future: ACCESSNebraska
Every two years, state agencies in Nebraska publish a biennial budget proposal outlining potential priorities for funding and budget cuts. This year, in light of projected reductions in state revenue receipts, Governor Ricketts has asked state agencies to identify general fund budget cuts amounting to 8 percent in laying out…...
The 2016 Kids Count in Nebraska Report is almost here!
We have been busy this fall compiling data and putting together the 2016 Kids Count in Nebraska Report – our biggest and best yet! This year’s book contains data in each of our 5 issues areas: health, education, economic stability, child welfare, and juvenile justice as well as population level demographics,…...
Cutting Our Future: Domestic Violence and Child Welfare
Every two years, state agencies in Nebraska publish a biennial budget proposal outlining potential priorities for funding and budget cuts. This year, in light of projected reductions in state revenue receipts, Governor Ricketts has asked state agencies to identify general fund budget cuts amounting to 8 percent in laying out…...
Judicial Branch Advocacy
In all of our policy work, Voices for Children seeks to break down barriers to opportunity for children. Most of the time, that involves public education, community engagement, and administrative and legislative advocacy: working with the public to highlight and understand issues facing kids and families, and working with the…...
The Ordinance, or the Little Town that Could
Thanks to all who attended the film screening of “The Ordinance” on Wednesday evening. “The Ordinance” is a documentary about the efforts of faith leaders and service providers in small town Temple, Texas to rein in the worst abuses of payday lending in their community. After the film screening, Traci…...
Cutting our Future: Juvenile Justice
Every two years, state agencies in Nebraska publish a biennial budget proposal outlining potential priorities for funding and budget cuts. This year, in light of projected reductions in state revenue receipts, Governor Ricketts has asked state agencies to identify general fund budget cuts amounting to 8 percent in laying out…...
Cutting Our Future: Child Welfare
Every two years, state agencies in Nebraska publish a biennial budget proposal outlining potential priorities for funding and budget cuts. This year, in light of projected reductions in state revenue receipts, Governor Ricketts has asked state agencies to identify general fund budget cuts amounting to 8 percent in laying out…...
Voices for Children Testimony on LR 523
Yesterday, Voices for Children Policy Coordinator Juliet Summers testified on LR 523, an interim study on the gaps in services, legal protections, and access to public benefits available to youth who are eighteen but have not reached the age of majority. Voice for Children testified on the need to address this…...
