I don’t know how most people my age were introduced to the issues of money and finance, but I have distinct early memories of my father telling my mother that money was not something to be talked about when the kids were in the room. My family was undoubtedly well-intentioned…...
Early trauma can last a lifetime
When looking at the numbers of kids who are experiencing maltreatment of some kind, we might feel pain on their behalf or outrage at what they’re going through. It’s certainly an appropriate response. Kids don’t deserve to be treated badly, and that’s something that most adults know because we feel…...
Bringing solutions through collaboration
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” – Henry Ford Voices for Children is committed finding solutions to the problems facing Nebraska’s children through strategic collaboration. We have and will work toward collaborative solutions to the most pressing issues for children. At the same…...
Racial Disparities in Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice
You probably already know this, but we here at Voices for Children in Nebraska are passionate about justice and fairness for all of Nebraska’s kids. This passion drives us to examine troubling trends in the hopes that solutions can be found for even the most complicated and longstanding of challenges…...
Assessing ACCESSNebraska
On Monday, Voices for Children partnered with other organizations to host the first in a series of “listening sessions” on ACCESSNebraska. ACCESSNebraska is the state’s new way of providing public benefits like food stamps, Medicaid, and child care subsidies. In 2010, the state changed from a model of providing benefits with an…...
Slow descent in out-of-home care numbers
On Tuesday, Sarah did a great job articulating the notion of “flipping the pyramid” of child welfare. In her blog post, she spoke about Nebraska’s effort to lower its rate of children served in out-of-home care. So we got to thinking: What do the data tell us, historically-speaking, about how many…...