This program provides low-interest loans to individuals with disabilities for the purchase of assistive technology devices and services. This includes mini-loans, larger loans, and loans for telework.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
This program helps individuals served by Nebraska VR to take full advantage of available state and federal work incentives and make an informed decision about working while disabled.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
CPAP enables individuals with disabilities to explore and access opportunities to advance in their employment through a combination of classroom and on-the-job training. It focuses on equipping participants with recognized postsecondary credentials required for advancement within the high-demand industries of Architecture and Construction, Healthcare, Information Technology, Manufacturing and Transportation, Distribution and Logistics (TDL). Employers are then provided access to this group of potential employees.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Department of Education, Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Client Assistance Program (CAP)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation and the Nebraska Department of Education's Special Education division offer enhanced transitions services for students with disabilities, including around benefits planning in relation to career choices, communicating disability-related work support and accommodation needs, and finding and requesting support or accommodations in education, training, and employment settings.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
The program provides mentorship and work experiences to transition-age students who are blind or have low vision by connecting them to blind and visually impaired adults in various occupations who can help them navigate the transition years. Participants interact weekly with mentors, develop leadership skills, and participate in work-based experiential learning opportunities. The program is a collaboration between the Nebraska Commission for the Blind & Visually Impaired and the National Federation of the Blind (NFB).
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
This program provides youth with disabilities with a unique recreational experience that prepares them for school, work, and life inclusion. Participants learn about their disabilities, understand the importance of communication and listening skills, explore and share their talents and strengths, understand accommodations in the school and workplace, learn about independent living, and learn about the services necessary for job seeking and secondary education.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 16 midwestern and western states. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: WI FACETS
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program provides ongoing employment support to individuals with disabilities for one full year. Employment Monitors check in and can assist with transportation, job retention, career advancement, financial wellness, and more.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program includes a series of community trainings for people with disabilities, family members, and concerned citizens and professionals who are interested in promoting the best outcomes for individuals with disabilities and their families in Nebraska. It focuses on leadership and advocacy training regarding systems of services and supports to individuals with disabilities and their families. It is a collaboration between the Munroe-Meyer Institute University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) and the State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
This program includes numerous trainings for youth with disabilities and their families, including around Self-Advocacy, Person-Centered Planning, and Transitions.
Operating Entity: The Arc of Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Family Engagement, Youth Development & Leadership
This program includes eighteen short-term programs that provide career exploration, job readiness, and work-based learning opportunities to students with disabilities. Topics include self-advocacy, independent living, workplace readiness, job exploration, and more.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Department of Education, Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
This paid internship focuses on disability advocacy and leadership and will include self-study, seminars, experiential learning, and position-shadowing opportunities. Preference is given to adults with disabilities and their parents and family members, with the goal of enhancing trainee’s skills and knowledge regarding intellectual and developmental disabilities history, philosophy and practice.
Operating Entity: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Munroe-Meyer Institute
Entity Type: College / University
WAGES is a six-week work-based learning experience program held annually for blind and visually impaired youth ages 16 to 21. Participants live on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus and engage in work opportunities, professional skills training, self-advocacy activities, transportation practice, and more.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Commission for the Blind & Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
This webpage contains seven ways to manage pandemic-related stress and four ways parents can support the mental health of their children in managing COVID-19 stress.
Operating Entity: University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Rural Wellness
Topic(s): Mental Health
This bill appropriates funding to a rehabilitation hospital to establish a model system of care for individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 but have persistent symptoms. The model system of care must include post-COVID-19 research; post-COVID-19 clinics; mental health services expanded to address cognitive and psychiatric needs of post-COVID-19 patients; and educational materials for health care providers and the public.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Legislature
Topic(s): Long-COVID
This webpage contains several links to relevant mental health resources, including for parents in supporting children in response to the pandemic, focusing on coping with stress and developing resilience. A dedicated section for youth and young adults also contains links to mental health resources.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Children
Topic(s): Mental Health
Launch Nebraska is the Nebraska Department of Education's re-opening plan that focuses on mitigating student learning loss through system considerations, high quality instruction, diagnosis of unfinished teaching and learning and professional development of educators while meeting the social and emotional needs of students.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Department of Education
Topic(s): Mental Health
This document contains links to information, support groups and potential medical services and links to resources for managing Long-COVID symptoms. Links to mental health resources support mindfulness and managing stress and anxiety.
Operating Entity: Clarkson College
Topic(s): Long-COVID
This article describes MIS-C, a condition linked to COVID in children. The article details symptoms and treatment.
Operating Entity: Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Omaha
Topic(s): Long-COVID
This is a document with guidance for parents and providers along with Q&A on special education during COVID-19. It includes links to webinars discussing best practices for virtual instruction of students with disabilities, a comprehensive list of all disability policy changes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and resources for both schools and students to help adjust the virtual learning environment to a student's disability needs.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Department of Education
Topic(s): Distance Learning, IEP
Nebraska Department of Education board members approved a contract with the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools to conduct research on the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly on education.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Department of Education
Topic(s): Mental Health
The Buffett Institute conducted research surveys on the long-term impact of COVID on early child care and education providers to gain insights on how the pandemic affected small children and those providing them with care. Surveys focused on mental health and also addressed Long-COVID, with the goal of providing guidance to early child care providers and educators on pandemic-related needs. The survey landing page also includes links to articles from the Buffett Institute and outside resources for parents and educators about the impact of the pandemic on student mental health.
Operating Entity: The Buffett Institute
Topic(s): Mental Health
This article includes a video discussing Long-COVID symptoms and includes information about lung, brain and heart damage as a result of COVID-19.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Medicine
Topic(s): Long-COVID