Building Nebraska Families

Building Nebraska Families is an educational developmental program that helps families transition from welfare to work. This University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension program, funded by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, is one leg of the journey Employment First families travel as they assume work responsibilities. In this leg of the journey Building Nebraska Families provides support to at-risk families by promoting self-sufficiency through education.

Goal:

Participants learn skills that help them successfully maintain their families as they assume work responsibilities.

Objectives:

• Participants complete an educational program to strengthen their family management/life skills in such areas as: self-esteem, healthy relationships, child care, parenting, goal setting, problem-solving, decision-making, balancing work and family, money management, anger management, communications skills, nutritional practices, plus more.
• Participants utilize the family management/life skills learned to help them secure and maintain employment.
• Participants give back to their community through volunteer opportunities that will help them become a giver as well as a receiver.

Building Nebraska Families serves 23 counties and is currently located at five sites in Nebraska. Extension Educators in collaboration with other local entities will provide one-on-one or small group educational opportunities for participants.

Audience Targeted:

Participants are referred by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Employment First program.

The community through a community network model engages in a development process to identify opportunities for program participants.
 
 
 

Building Nebraska Families Personnel List

 
 
 

University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension educational programs abide with the  non-discrimination policies of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the United States Department of Agriculture.