BY MARTHA STODDARD
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
Thursday July 10, 2008
LINCOLN — More Nebraska children left the state’s child welfare system than entered it during the two years since Gov. Dave Heineman issued directives aimed at reducing the number of state wards.
The governor today called the trend a major accomplishment that reversed a steady climb [...]
By NANCY HICKS / Lincoln Journal Star
Thursday, Jul 10, 2008 - 07:18:44 pm CDT
A concerted effort by both the courts and the state human services agency to get children out of the foster care system and into permanent homes is paying off.
In two years, the number of children in the state’s child [...]
By NANCY HICKS / Lincoln Journal Star
Saturday, Jul 05, 2008 - 12:38:52 am CDT
The state’s decision early this year to curb the use of child welfare dollars for adults could make it more difficult for parents to be reunited with children, according to some local human service leaders.
Some agencies and counselors [...]
BY MARTHA STODDARD
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
LINCOLN — The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has earned accolades from children’s advocates and others for its plans to change how the child welfare system does business beginning today.
But officials’ execution of those plans? Not so much.
The plans include new services aimed at keeping [...]
By NANCY HICKS / Lincoln Journal Star
Saturday, Jun 28, 2008 - 12:20:46 am CDT
Omni Behavioral Health will not be one of the private agencies working with troubled families when the state begins its new contract arrangement next week.
By July 1, the Health and Human Services Department will contract with fewer than [...]
By NANCY HICKS / Lincoln Journal Star
Sunday, Jun 22, 2008 - 12:16:10 am CDT
The state is changing the way services are provided to troubled families by dramatically reducing the number of contracts it has with agencies to provide services and making a few private agencies responsible for keeping families together.
Instead of [...]
By The Associated Press
Thursday, Jun 19, 2008 - 09:23:00 am CDT
GRAND ISLAND— The Hall County prosecutor says he can’t file child-abuse charges against the mother of a newborn who tested positive for meth.
Hall County Attorney Mark Young says Nebraska law doesn’t consider injury to a fetus to be child abuse.
Young says [...]
BY MARGARET REIST / Lincoln Journal Star
Wednesday, Jun 18, 2008 - 12:18:32 am CDT
The numbers tell part of the story at 6601 Pioneers Boulevard.
It’s a story of children in crisis, of 382 young people who stayed at Cedars Youth Services emergency shelter last year and of the more than 1,300 cases [...]
Monday, June 16, 2008
Contributed by Ashley Christensen
Family Drug Court Coordinator
The Federal Government has provided a grant to implement Family Drug Courts (FDC) in Iowa. Parents and Children Together (PACT): A Family Drug Court Initiative, in a joint effort from the Court personnel, area and county attorneys, the Department of Human Services, Jackson [...]
Friday, June 13, 2008, 10:52 AM
By Darwin Danielson
The Iowa Supreme Court says the state’s rules involving the adoption of an Indian child are unconstitutional. The case involves a 20-year-old Sioux City woman who is a member of Tyme Maidu Indian tribe in California.
The woman gave birth to a baby girl in [...]
