Objectives of the Statewide Plan for Community Well-Being
Goal 1: Bring Up Nebraska partners will co-create community-driven strategies together with young people, parents, families, caregivers, and other community members to advance prevention and promote well-being.
Objective 1
Bring Up Nebraska Network community partners—youth, parents, and caregivers—are engaged in every stage of prevention strategy design and implementation, sharing decision-making to ensure programs reflect their priorities.
Objective 2
Strengthen the capacity and knowledge of Bring Up Nebraska Network partners through training and education opportunities that are co-designed and informed by youth, young adults, parents, and caregivers.
Goal 2: Bring Up Nebraska partners will advance statewide collaboration through a collective impact approach; aligning efforts across sectors and communities to support community-driven prevention, promote well-being, and achieve measurable outcomes.
Objective 1
Bring Up Nebraska Community Collaboratives have the infrastructure, practices, training, and capacity needed to maintain a strong local prevention system and ensure ongoing community-driven leadership in decision-making and action.
Objective 2
Community Collaboratives, state partners, community partners, and the Bring Up Nebraska Network backbone (NCFF) demonstrate responsiveness, effective communication, and resource-sharing practices that drive shared accountability and coordinated action.
Objective 3
Bring Up Nebraska Network Community Collaboratives partner with schools, education stakeholders, students, and families to co-design and expand access to integrated wraparound supports that promote student well-being and strengthen local prevention.
Objective 4
Bring Up Nebraska Network partners identify and advocate for legislative and administrative policy and practice changes that strengthen community-based prevention for youth, young adults, parents, caregivers, and families.
Objective 5
Build and sustain data infrastructure for the Bring Up Nebraska Network-including Community Collaboratives, state partners, community partners, and NCFF-to utilize data in shared decision-making that advances prevention and well-being in Nebraska.
Goal 3: Bring Up Nebraska partners will work together to promote greater utilization of services for childcare, education, health, financial literacy, and other community resources that build protective and promotive factors for children, youth, and families.
Objective 1
Bring Up Nebraska Network partners collaborate to ensure that young children, their families, and caregivers have access to high-quality childcare and early learning services within their communities.
Objective 2
Bring Up Nebraska partners collaborate to ensure children, youth, young adults, and their families have access to high-quality education-including family literacy programs, K–12 schooling, postsecondary pathways, and career development.
Objective 3
Bring Up Nebraska partners collaborate to ensure that children, youth, young adults, caregivers, and families have affordable, high-quality physical, mental, and behavioral health services within their communities.
Objective 4
Bring Up Nebraska partners collaborate to ensure that children, youth, young adults, caregivers, and families have essential resources and opportunities that meet basic needs, build financial literacy, and support long-term economic stability.
Objective 5
Bring Up Nebraska partners work together to sustain, strengthen, and scale community-based services via strategic partnership, aligning infrastructure, sharing resources, and building collective capacity for long-term impact.
Goal 4: Bring Up Nebraska partners will strengthen and support a high-quality, collaborative well-being workforce ensuring partners have the resources, skills, and capacity to advance the shared goal of improving well-being for children, youth, and families.
Objective 1
Equip Nebraska’s well-being workforce with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide services that promote Protective and Promotive Factors that build resilience, safety, and well-being for children, youth, and families.
Objective 2
Implement strategies to engage, retain, and support a skilled well-being workforce by offering career pathways and meaningful professional development, and cultivating work environments that prioritize collaboration, recognition, and staff well-being.