Program areas at Central Plains Center for Services
Preparation, transition, independent living Services and connected youth initiative. Preparation, transition, independent living Services program is designed to provide youth support and guidance with the challenges of becoming independent. The connected youth initiative seeks to build connected youth communities and collaborations across rural Nebraska to help unconnected young people with experience in the foster care and juvenile justice systems, those struggling with homelessness, or who are disconnected from a family structure.
Outreach and coaching - Central Plains Center for Services provides one- on-one, youth-driven, strength-based coaching, a rapid response project that functions both as a diversion program, preventing youth that are not yet in a literally homeless situation from ever entering, and as a rapid rehousing program to quickly move those youth that are recently homeless into permanent housing, and a system of supports and Services for children and families to prevent the unnecessary entry into the child welfare system and/or other high-end systems of care.
Education and training voucher program provides financial assistance, as well as one-on-one support, for current and former state wards to attend the college of their choice. The etv program provides students up to 2,600 per year for tuition, fees, and books. A hallmark of our etv program is the direct support each youth receives.
Passthru grants to promote quality childcare and preschool development