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The Collaborative Coordinator participated throughout 2024 on the Region V Opioid Settlement Steering Committee. This committee makes decisions on how to spend opioid settlement dollars coming through Region V Systems. Having the 4 County Collab Coordinator there provides a voice for our rural area counties' needs and helps to ensure that not only are urban areas awarded funding through these dollars, but rural areas as well.
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C-ACT-1122
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Meetings of the Collab members to discuss updates and carry out work towards Collab strategies.
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C-ACT-1176
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Coalition Coordinator participated in all Regional Prevention Coalition meetings in 2024 (hosted by Region V Systems). These meetings are required for continued award of Federal Block Grant funds (as well as other grants as they become available) for the Collab. At the meetings, work and discussion focus on substance abuse prevention and mental wellness/suicide prevention efforts for communities of southeast Nebraska.
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C-ACT-1121
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Work with UNL BOSR to oversample NE SHARP in Buffalo County (history of this partnership and data collection since 2003) schools to ensure every school has a county wide data report to utilize in building local prevention strategies, engage promotive and protective factors, engage community stakeholders, parents and students. Accountability, Impact and Measurment Committee (AIM) will review county specific data results, forward data in bite sized reviews (data snap shots) to the Engagement Committee who will design 'data briefs' and engage community in conversations around the results. Quarterly community conversations will be hosted by the Collaborative and Community Work Groups designing prevention strategies will be present to report progress to community, prioritizing those with lived experience to share. Outcome: number of data reports, number of data briefs, number of new volunteers, number of schools sharing data with students and parents, number of community conversations, number of prevention strategies shared, number of emerging issues disclosed, sustainable funding for prevention strategies and partnership building between community stakeholders and those with LE.
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C-ACT-1048
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Youth review Buffalo County Data Briefs, finalize content for release to the community, discuss with caring adults to support strategies that impact promotive and protective factors and build capacity to design best practices for youth. Youth will present data to schools, parents and other community stakeholders. Data will be utilized in reporting on success of prevention strategies. Stories of youth work will be highlighted in social media, monthly eblasts, donor in person meetings, specialized communication to donors and funders of lived experience informing the work. It is youth hope to build policy development in partnership with Coalition for a Strong Nebraska.
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C-ACT-1049
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A lived-experience community member trained herself in the use Benefit Cliff caluculator tools developed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: https://emar-data-tools.shinyapps.io/clifftool/ We then compensate her for working with individuals who want to forecast their benefits, examine different career ladders, etc.
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C-ACT-1003
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Continue to increase communications to ensure all partners, community members, service organizations, receive equitable information to ensure collaboration with all
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C-ACT-1186
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Continue to build relationships with law enforcement in our area. This way law enforcement knows that they can refer families to our office and have DCFP help with services in hopes of prevention of higher services.
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C-ACT-1184
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*Met other community collaboratives for Norfolk gathering. *Shared ideas with other community coordinators and Central Navigators. *Learned about new strategies to promote Collective Impact.
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C-ACT-1149
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*Seek ways to increase community knowledge of diversity, inclusion, and equity. *Give lived-experience voice input in identifying minority and underserved population needs.
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C-ACT-1087
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Central Navigators are liaison between hospital, public schools, Dhhs, manufacture and community. Central Navigators bring community resources into community entities along with bridging communication. Central Navigators meet people in need where the present to address the needs along with tracking client until services cycle is complete. Central Navigators are essential with creating understanding between formal entity and community members in need.
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C-ACT-1278
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Provide, connect and support identified training and support needed for individuals, partners and community at large. Examples would be Inclusive communities training that was offered community wide and within sectors. Another would be School Resource Officer training for our new positions within the school system. Coordinated community life skill classes. This is an area that community relies on lived experience experts to guide.
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C-ACT-1279
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• Nov. 2024 - Lead Family Coach began coaching 3 families.
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C-ACT-1035
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• Sept - October 2024 - Developed family coaching procedures and policies.
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C-ACT-1034
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• January 2025 - Family Cafe the importance of attendance and routine
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C-ACT-1036
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•August 2024 - An Article was shared with the TFSC group around top schools and good attendance was one of the contributors. We brought in a representative from the SSC schools to share information about local attendance and confirmed it had been an issue. Our TFSC group has developed videos and plans to distribute education cards about the importance of attendance.
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C-ACT-1033
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The Norfolk Family Coalition holds bimonthly collaboration meetings. At each meeting there is an agency highlight, community sharing, and agency updates. We work together to address gaps in the community and problem solve.
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C-ACT-1214
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Coordinator will visit each county and bring up the work of the collaborative. Coordinator will also promote the collaborative by partnering with local county organizations to see what each county needs are.
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C-ACT-1020
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To provide a safe supportive alternative to less healthy and productive choices, the Society of Care and the collaborative joined forces with many other community entities in sponsoring a celebrative New Years Wacipi (pow wow). In addition to fellowship and an embrace of traditional dance & drumming, the Wacipi provided an opportunity to reinforce positive decision making and educateionon matters such as sobriety, wellbriety, Dakota Language, Murdered & Missing Indigenous People (MMIW/MMIP), and suicide awareness -- major issues that directly effect children, future children, young adults, mothers, fathers, grandfathers, grandmothers and everyone else who works or is a part of the community. The Society of Care also utilized the event as an opportunity to survey community members on their understanding of protective factors and preferences in service delivery.
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C-ACT-1344
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To provide a safe supportive alternative to less healthy and productive choices, the Society of Care and the collaborative joined forces with many other community entities in sponsoring a celebrative New Years Wacipi (pow wow). In addition to fellowship and an embrace of traditional dance & drumming, the Wacipi provided an opportunity to reinforce positive decision making and educateionon matters such as sobriety, wellbriety, Dakota Language, Murdered & Missing Indigenous People (MMIW/MMIP), and suicide awareness -- major issues that directly effect children, future children, young adults, mothers, fathers, grandfathers, grandmothers and everyone else who works or is a part of the community. The Society of Care also utilized the event as an opportunity to survey community members on their understanding of protective factors and preferences in service delivery.
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C-ACT-1343
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Utilizing support from the Urban Indian Health Institute and collaborating with Nebraska Indian Community College, we hosted community forums and film screenings reinforcing that data is an Indigenous value. We assisted participants to know and feel that they can reclaim that value by providing training on new ways of thinking about data, that data is also stories, traditional ways of knowing, plant medicines, star knowledge, knowledge of the land and waters, and more. This sets the stage for full community embracing of data driven approaches. One cummunity member noted the impact by stating that "Data isn’t merely numbers or facts. Data can narrate our stories from various cultures and communities. I genuinely appreciated how this project urges us to contemplate whose voices are represented in the data we utilize daily. It makes me realize that there are multiple perspectives available, and not just one way to perceive things. This project has influenced me and surely soon, my community."
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C-ACT-1229
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1. Increase awareness and recruitment of lived experience members participating in ACT. 2. Identify potential ways of incentivizing lived experience people to participate in ACT and identify potential barriers to participating in ACT.
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C-ACT-1131