What's New
NACC Conference Scholarships Now Available! The Nebraska Court Improvement Project is again offering six (6) full scholarships to attend the 2008 NACC Juvenile and Family Law Conference in Savannah, Georgia on August 3-6, 2008. More information on applying for a scholarship is available here. For details on the conference, please visit the NACC website.The deadline for scholarship applications is June 1, 2008.
"Complex Issues in Juvenile Court Practice", a seminar being hosted by Creighton University School of Law and Continuing Legal Education, will be held on Friday, May 16, 2008. This training opportunity has been approved by the Nebraska Supreme Court Administrator to meet the three (3) hour advanced training requirement for guardians ad litem and by the State of Iowa for 6.25 hours of CLE credit. For more information about topics and registration, click here.
"Know Your Rights: A Guide for Youth in Nebraska's Foster Care System" is now available on line.
A new report on 2007 Separate Juvenile Court Annual Caseloads has been released by the Nebraska Supreme Court Administrative Office of the Courts.
Registration is now open for the 2008 Through the Eyes of a Child Spring Lecture Series in Lincoln, Nebraska. View the brochure for the lecture series here. To learn more about the 'Helping Babies From the Bench' presentation, please click here. Registration for the Grand Island (Visitation for Children Placed Out of Home: Goals, Objectives and Strategies) and Sidney (Helping Babies From the Bench) lectures is now closed.
The Safety-Permanency Balance: A View of Three Counties was held by Andy Barclay of Fostering Court Improvement on February 29, 2008. To view the powerpoint presentations from each of the presentations, click on the appropriate location: the Sarpy County presentation , the Douglas County presentation , the Lancaster County presentation. Data discussed during the presentations is accessible on the Fostering Court Improvement website . This data has been extracted from Nebraska's NCANDS and AFCARS databases with the cooperation of NDHHS. The intent of the data is to allow local teams to analyze local data to determine areas of need within the abuse/neglect court system. To view a summary of the findings from the presentations, click here
Read Judge Inbody's article "Nothing Stays the Same" to learn more about the changes made to the termination of
parental rights appeals process with the Nebraska Court of Appeals. (c) 2008 The Nebraska Lawyer
Magazine. Reprinted with Permission.
Read about Zero-to-Three reasonable efforts in Judge Johnson's article "Babies Cry for Judicial Leadership: Reasonable Efforts for Infants and Toddlers in Foster Care."
The Nebraska Supreme Court has approved the Caregiver Information Form. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 43-1314.02 (2007 Neb. Laws, L.B. 457, § 1) requires courts to provide a Caregiver Information Form to foster parents. The form is now uploaded to the Internet and available by following this link.
