CEDARS mission is to help children and youth achieve safety, stability and enduring family relationships. CEDARS has a wide variety of services which includes child development centers, child learning centers, foster care, housing and life skill development for aged out youth, emergency shelter, diversion, reporting center, in home services and counseling.
Christian Heritage’s mission is to change the future of child welfare in Nebraska by mobilizing a Gospel-centered community to support vulnerable children and families. Programs included are Beyond Prison, Families Together and Foster Care.
Project Everlast Lincoln works with four primary partners to provide transitional services. These types of services handle basic needs – like housing, health care and mental health programs – to make the a successful transition to adulthood possible. Nebraska Children’s Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP) initiative utilizes a collective impact approach to ensure young people are supported in…
Lund-Ross was again selected for a third project with Girls Inc., the Protege House that provides transitional housing and support to young women in the Omaha community. Formerly a convent, the renovated building will house 15 women between the ages of 18 and 24.
Compass provides foster youth educational support, school assistance, 24 hour support, adult living skills, independent living assessments, and other individual assistance.
Providing unconditional support and programming for young people as they become productive, independent, active members of the community. They help youth attain their high school diploma or GED. They help youth develop job skills. They help youth build confidence in themselves.
The Bike Union is dedicated to providing workforce and personal development to youth aging out of foster care and to strengthening our community as a whole. Let’s achieve positive social change together, one coffee cup and bike at a time. All of our revenue from bicycle sales and service is dedicated to supporting our mentorship and employment programming.
A 151 acre campus/community where all focus is on the success of the youth and building a safety net for them in the future. AS will provide an environment for learning vocational and life skills, provide jobs, mentoring, and promote self-sufficiency.
We give youth the support they need to meet the day-to-day demands of adult life. We pay for their Driver’s Education so they can learn to drive safely and legally and earn their license. Youth-led and adult-supported, RYAC provides mentors and professionals to teach life skills.
Think of Us is a web and mobile life-coaching platform that helps foster youth navigate their transition to adulthood. The platform is like Asana or Trello for foster youth, and it ensures that they are aware of all the steps they have to take to navigate the foster-care system and they are prepared to live independently after they turn 18…