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  • Safe haven baby in good health
    By Maunette Loeks
    World-Herald News Service

    SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — A newborn dropped off at Regional West Medical Center here under the safe haven law is healthy, hospital officials said.

    The baby girl is the second child dropped off under the state's revised safe haven law, approved in 2008. <

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  • Omaha Girl Wishes For Adoption
    Kyle McClellan
    KETV Omaha

    The little girl peppered beauty salon workers with questions as she visited an Omaha salon recently for a special mini-makeover for the 8-year-old.

    “What color is that? Did you use that pink on your nails? Does that hurt? Is it dry already?” said 8-year-old Jaelyn, a child featured on KETV Newswatch 7 as part of a special segment on adoption. <

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  • Truancy: It takes a village
    By Christopher Burbach
    WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

    To the right of youth worker Ricky Smith, a 16-year-old boy looking sharp in a ponytail received an old-school dressing down from an Omaha police officer.

    She talked to the youth like she was his aunt, and not just a school resource officer who bumped into a kid she knew during a mass truancy hearing at Omaha's Douglas County Juvenile Court.

    Meanwhile, to Smith's left, a 14-year-old girl walked toward an exit with her mother. She wore a big smile after meeting with juvenile probation officers and Juvenile Assessment Center workers to begin working on a plan to stay in school. <

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Priorities

  1. Reduce the time to reunification
  2. Improve systems effectiveness with parents with substance abuse issues
  3. Improve the use of parenting time to improve permanency