child maltreatment

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, which is a good reminder that although it is often easy to get wrapped up in attention-grabbing headlines on cases of child abuse and neglect, these stories often leave behind other aspects of a child’s life that are equally important to consider. The…...

In order to better understand the dramatic drop in the number of Nebraska children entering the child welfare system and becoming state wards,  we have to dive a little deeper into the data.  Two interesting trends pop out when we look a little deeper. By region The Nebraska Department of…...