Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services released new numbers on significant changes underway in Nebraska’s child welfare system. Over the past few years a number of reform efforts, both administrative and legislative, have been enacted to better serve Nebraska’s children and families. The new numbers show that…...
Race for Results: White Children in Nebraska
Over the last several weeks we have been reviewing the Annie E. Casey foundation’s “Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children” policy report. This report explored the intersection of kids, race and opportunity and debuts the new Race for Results Index. So far in this series…...
Race Matters Conference Set for December
For more than 28 years, Voices for children has been working on issues facing children in the areas of juvenile justice, child welfare, economic stability and health. We are passionate about fairness and justice for all kids. Through the data in our annual kids count report, we have become increasingly…...
Mind the gap in educational achievement
All students should have the opportunity for academic success, but long-standing inequities in the educational system—like racial segregation and unequal school resources and academic opportunities—lead to greater challenges for students of color. Our latest infographic takes a look at where those gaps in academic achievement:...
Are All Nebraska’s Children Equal?
Earlier this year, the University of Nebraska – Omaha released a comprehensive report on youth of color in our juvenile justice system. For those who know the juvenile justice system well, perhaps it’s no surprise that what the study found was that youth of color are disproportionately represented at every level of the juvenile justice system…...
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…...
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