A longtime partner of the Public Policy Center, The Lancaster County Adult Drug Court, has been named to the exclusive list of national mentor treatment courts by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP) and the U.S. Department of Justice. To celebrate the distinction of joining...
On Tuesday, March 29, Dish it Up will feature Tania Israel for an interactive discussion on political polarization. Join the conversation from Noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Unity Room at the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center or via Zoom at go.unl.edu/dish. The Office of Academic Success and...
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Aline Abayo has been awarded a full-time research internship at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. Aline, one of the PPC's outstanding undergraduate research assistants, has been selected as one of 13 new Junior Fellows in a...
An app to anonymously report concerns about school safety became available Sept. 1 to all Nebraska schools who opt in, and now a grant will pay for an evaluation of Safe2HelpNE. The $1.28 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice could be key to winning future support for the system that can...
Every summer, students from the University of Nebraska live and intern in Washington D.C. and gain valuable experience in fields including public policy, international affairs, advocacy, non-profit administration, STEM, business, finance, and the humanities. The Washington D.C. Professional...
A new app aims to reduce youth suicides. University of Nebraska Public Policy Center Senior Research Specialist Quinn Lewandowski, who serves as the current president of the Nebraska State Suicide Prevention Coalition, helped developed the app with partners Bryan Health, The Kim Foundation -...
Video voiced by Matthew St. Cin. In 2021, the Public Policy Center (PPC) impacted thousands of people spanning the entirety of Nebraska and beyond. PPC's efforts were aimed at improving community support and outreach through disaster recovery, behavioral health services, public health programs...
Dr. Mario Scalora, director of the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center and professor of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, recently spoke with CBS news about the current landscape of threat assessment and violence prevention with respect to members of congress and other public...
“Nebraska needs you. “We need your smile, creativity, ideas, kindness, care and spark. There is only one you, and we need you here.” As of late September, some 5 million people were exposed to that and similar positive, empowering messages through a campaign via digital, print, TV and radio. More...
For this month's partner highlight, we spoke to Barbara Bartle, who has served as president of the Lincoln Community Foundation (LCF) for the past twelve years and will be retiring later this month. LCF has been a longtime partner of the PPC, collaborating on Prosper Lincoln and Lincoln Vital Signs...
When Michelle Fries thinks about her Panhandle communities’ needs during the pandemic, she remembers people asking for housing or utility assistance, for food and for emotional support. “It’s been humbling to me because you don’t realize what your neighbors might be going through,” said Fries, the...
A project that aimed to connect residents in 17 west-central Nebraska counties to crisis counseling services and other resources found that being out at public events that drew crowds sometimes missed those most in need. “A lot of times, if someone is in need, depressed or fearing covid, they’re...
LINCOLN, Neb. – A new Nebraska Public Media television program produced in partnership with the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center will focus on support during stressful times. “Nebraska Strong: Well-Being During Trying Times,” will air at 7:30 p.m. CT, Thursday, Dec. 30 and 12:30 p.m. CT...
One day it was Loup City’s Polish Days or Grand Island’s Husker Harvest Days. Other days it was a college campus visit on game day, a preschool reading session or one of Two Rivers Public Health’s vaccination clinics. In all of those places across 22 counties in south-central Nebraska, the Nebraska...
Verdigre librarian Katie Hollmann believes few people in the state’s 22 northern-tier counties served by the Region 4 Nebraska Strong Project team do not know who the team outreach workers are and what services they provide. When the project formed after widespread flooding in 2019, Britt Foster...
When senior facilities closed to visitors in 2020 to protect residents from COVID-19, the isolation of residents weighed heavily on outreach workers for the Nebraska Strong Recovery Project. Charged with providing crisis counseling and other resources to help people cope with the pandemic, the...
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? I am from West Omaha and grew up in Elkhorn. I graduated from Elkhorn High. My family are Afghans, and my mother fled the Soviet invasion in 1981 and came to Omaha. What are you studying at the university and what are your future plans? I’m a double major...
When Nebraska Strong Recovery Project outreach workers got the chance to transition from virtual contacts to in-person contacts, the struggles people were dealing with from COVID-19 became more obvious. People were having trouble sleeping, businesses were wondering if customers would ever come back...
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? I’m currently a junior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln majoring in political science and mathematics with a minor in leadership and communications through the ALEC Department! On campus, I’m involved in NHRI Leadership Mentoring and the University...
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? I am currently a junior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I am a member of Pi Beta Phi on campus and am the Social and Recruitment Chair for the club MEDLIFE. In my free time, I love reading, going to coffee shops with friends, relaxing and watching...