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Holiday Open House

      Warm up at our Annual Holiday Open House Please join us for Cocktails and Hors D’oeuvres...

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Cutting our Future: Hastings Regional Center

  Here’s a question for you: How can we best meet the behavioral health needs of Nebraska’s children? Or better yet: How do we do this, given our limited resources? This question becomes especially important as we dig into the DHHS budget request and it’s list of possible modifications and cuts.…...

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Five things Nebraska’s kids have to be thankful for this year

A everyone prepares for their Thanksgiving celebrations and time with friends and family, we’ve been thinking a lot about what it is that Voices for Children and Nebraska’s kids can be thankful for this year.  Turns out, there are quite a few things for them to be thankful for: 1.)…...

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Cutting Our Future: Behavioral Health Services

  In 2008 during our state’s Safe Haven crisis, parents relinquished custody of 36 children to the state of Nebraska. Most of these children were struggling with behavioral health challenges that had left their families feeling helpless. The message was clear: Nebraska’s families and children weren’t getting the help they…...

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Child’s View “Summer” 2012

Our latest issue of Child’ View is available online (and should be arriving in mailboxes shortly). In this issue: KIDS COUNT National Data Book  Letter From the Executive Director 25 Years, 25 Milestones Spotlight Gala Celebrates 25th Anniversary  Issue Brief: Children’s Behavioral Health Voices Welcomes New Staff [issuu width=420 height=272 embedBackground=%23000000 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=121029153104-b5a5e6f9040b413bb2a314b71aa207d1 name=cv_summer_2012-web__1_…...

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Virtual Candidate Forum

In an effort to educate and motivate Nebraskans for the upcoming Unicameral election Voices for Children has put together a candidate forum so that the people of Nebraska can better know their candidates and where they stand on children’s issues in this state....

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Cutting Our Future: The Need for Juvenile Justice Reinvestment

Nebraska’s juvenile justice system may just be on the verge of a dramatic transformation. It’s not only the reform initiatives that are underway in certain parts of the state that signal change being around the corner. Buried on pages 419-429 of the recent Health and Human Services preliminary budget, is…...

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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…...

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Juvenile Justice Summit

Join juvenile justice system stakeholders for a one-day summit to learn from national experts in juvenile justice systems and help lay the groundwork for future investments and reform in the systems that serve our vulnerable youth....

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Does your child have what it takes to be on the next Kids Count cover?

Update:  We’ve received a few awesome photo submissions for the cover (see our mock-up at right) but there is still room on our next Kids Count Cover for a few more! Get your photos in by Friday, November 2 Tuesday, November 6 for a chance to see them on our 2013…...

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