Cedars Youth Services
Cedars Youth Services
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About this organization
Mission
CEDARS helps children and youth achieve safety, stability, and enduring family relationships.
About
Out of Home ServicesFor children and youth unable to live at home due to neglect, abuse, homelessness, runaway, or other family crises, CEDARS provides an individualized array of emergency and supportive housing to protect their safety, promote their healthy growth and development and facilitate their successful transition to permanency. Services are provided through the following programs: Foster Care, Youth Emergency Shelter, Street Outreach, Transitional Living and Family Support.CEDARS Pioneers Center houses the only short-term emergency shelter for youth, ages 12-18, who do not have immediate access to a safe living arrangement in Southeast Nebraska. Youth may be referred to the Pioneers Center because of: family homelessness; hospitalization of a parent; history of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence; for interruption of a foster care placement; short-term respite care or as a detention alternative. This program has been in operation since 1947. A variety of levels of care are offered at the Pioneers Center. Crisis Stabilization is a more intensive level of care that involves the support of a CEDARS therapist. To prevent youth from being placed outside the home, CEDARS also offers Basic Center services to families in the community who are not involved in the Child Welfare or Juvenile Justice System.Bridges Transitional Living Program offers supervised, community-based apartment living and life skills education for youth, ages 16-21, who have been homeless or are learning independent living skills. Youth may live alone or with a roommate, or with their child(ren) if parenting, with access to 24-hour staff support.Street Outreach Services (SOS) offers street-based assistance to runaway, homeless, and at-risk teens, including support, referrals, and crisis intervention. SOS staff focus their efforts on high risk schools, homeless shelters and on the streets of Lincoln to connect with homeless youth.The Youth Opportunity Center (YOC) is located in downtown Lincoln to provide our community's homeless youth with a safe, welcoming environment where they can have a meal, get basic hygiene items, do their laundry, and obtain other resources.Family Support Services provide specialists who work with children and their parents to help families gain the knowledge, skills, and tools they need to successfully achieve their goals. These services are intended to facilitate parent participation in child-directed interactions, where positive social praise and introduction of parent-directed activities are used.Foster Care staff work closely with children, biological parents, and foster families to build and maintain relationships. Individual families, who are either licensed or child-specific provide foster care and emergency placements for children, ages birth-18. Permanency is the goal for each child, which may include reunification, adoption, guardianship, or independent living. Respite care, support groups, and extensive training opportunities are also available for children and families, as well as 24-hour support for the foster family and youth.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The mission of the non-profit, as stated in the filing, is “To help children and youth achieve safety, stability, and enduring family relationships. cedars founding and enduring priority is safety for children and youth who have experienced, or are vulnerable to, abuse, neglect and/or homelessness.”.
When referring to its tasks, they were described as: “To help children and youth achieve safety, stability, and enduring family relationships. cedars founding and enduring priority is safety for children and youth who have experienced, or are vulnerable to, abuse, neglect and/or homelessness.”.
- The non-profit is operating legally in the state of NE.
- The non-profit's address for the year 2020 is listed as 6601 Pioneers Boulevard, Lincoln, NE, 68506 in the filing.
- The form submitted by the non-profit organization for 2020 reports 271 employees.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $153,410.
- The organization has 15 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1947.
- The organization pays $7,453,863 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $0 in fundraising expenses.
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