Community Resources

Parent Training and Information

clewis — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:24:58 -0600

PTI Nebraska is a statewide resource for families of children with disabilities and special health care needs.

Floor Time - Reestablishing The Child's Progress on the Developmental Ladder

clewis — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:18:59 -0600

From Stanley Greenspan, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School. This intervention method revolves around a concept called "floor time" - time which the caregivers (generally the parents) spend entering the child's activities and following the child's lead.

Tools for Coping with Life's Stressors

clewis — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:16:21 -0600

Welcome to Coping.org, home of the Tools for Coping Series - onsite manuals for coping with a variety of life's stressors, authored by: James J. Messina, Ph.D., & Constance M. Messina, Ph.D

Promoting Healthy Families in Your Community

clewis — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:47:33 -0500

For years, the Office on Child Abuse and Neglect and its National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information—now known as Child Welfare Information Gateway—have created an annual Community Resource Packet to support State and local agencies and concerned citizens in promoting public awareness during Child Abuse Prevention Month each April. Previous editions of this packet have described both community strategies and family activities for supporting parents and promoting safe children and healthy families.

Nebraska Statewide Respite Network

clewis — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:59:14 -0500

Nebraska Statewide Respite Network
1-866-RESPITE (1-866-737-7483)

Families often feel high levels of emotional, physical and financial stress when they care for someone with special needs in the home. Because of the demands, many families do not have the occasional short term periods of rest and relief that are so important to everyone's health and family stability.

What is Wraparound?

clewis — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:13:10 -0500

Wraparound is a family centered, community-oriented, strengths-based, highly individualized planning process aimed at helping people achieve important outcomes by helping them meet their unmet needs both within and outside of formal human services systems, while they remain in their neighborhoods and homes, whenever possible.

Nebraska Foster and Adoptive Parent Association (NFAPA)

clewis — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:10:59 -0500

was formed in 1999 to increase the amount of information, resources, and support available to Nebraska's resource families.

National Foster Parent Association

clewis — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:10:00 -0500

o support foster parents in achieving safety, permanence and well-being for the children and youth in their care.

Final Report from the Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care

clewis — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:07:40 -0500

So, this is how it is in foster care, you always have to move from foster home to foster home and you don’t have any say in this and you are always having to adapt to new people and new kids and new schools.from the commission's web site (May 18, 2004.)

Early Development Network and Protection and Safety Collaborate on the CAPTA Process

clewis — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:03:33 -0500

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act requires protection and safety staff to refer children under the age of three, who have been involved in a substantiated case of child abuse or neglect, to the Early Development Network (EDN) for early intervention services.