Through the Eyes of the Child Initiative

Filed on November 29, 2011
Not designated for permanent publication, A-11-356
SUMMARY: A preponderance of the evidence established that keeping the newborn with the mother in a prison nursery is contrary to the child’s welfare based on the mother’s past criminal and child welfare history. 
Kenyetta, DOB 3/11, was removed from the mother, Crystalynn, immediately after birth after [...]

Filed on July 5, 2011
Not designated for permanent publication, A-10-1114
SUMMARY: Reasonable efforts offered to a parent in a prior proceeding that are close in time to the later removal and reasonably related to the circumstances causing the removal are sufficient to satisfy the reasonable effort requirement for the later removal. 
Amari A., born in September 2010, [...]

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 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 [...]