Nebraska Children And Families Foundation

Connected youth communities: connected youth initiative (cyi) is an innovative, youth-led initiative that has achieved success addressing the policies affecting youth aging out of foster care. Cyi works to actively remove barriers that keep youth in foster care from achieving permanence, educational achievement, employment, housing, physical and mental health, personal and community engagement, and economic success. We're currently assisting in the development of connected youth communities and collaborations across rural nebraska to help young people with exxperience in the foster care and juvenile justice systems, struggling with homelessness, or who are disconnected from a family structure.

Child well-being communities: assist in the development of child well-being communities to make progress on child well-being indicators child well-being communites are community-owned collaborations that seek to optimize the prevention of adverse childhood experiences by activiely promoting protective factors within the community context, across the community prevention system, and through parent-child interactions.