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 [...]
By JOHN LINDENBERGER
Published: Sunday, June 1, 2008 4:17 AM CDT
The North Platte Telegraph
Officials from the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center are currently looking for feedback from Nebraska residents about the effectiveness of substance abuse services throughout the state.
The assessment, which is being conducted for the Nebraska Division of Behavioral Health, includes a survey as [...]
Published Tuesday May 27, 2008
BY ERIN GRACE
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
“Colorblind” federal adoption legislation passed more than a decade ago was supposed to reduce the number of black children in foster care and smooth the path to their adoption.
That hasn’t happened, an adoption advocacy group contends.
In a report released today, the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute said [...]
By JoANNE YOUNG / Lincoln Journal Star
Monday, May 26, 2008 - 06:01:54 pm CDT
Aaron Weaver remembers his last visit — at age 6 — with his biological mother.
Even with the reassurance of his soon-to-be adoptive mother, he dreaded seeing the woman who as a young child made him fear nearly all women.
For six years, his [...]
