Schalisha Walker

Please join us in welcoming our newest Child Welfare Youth Fellows, Neva and Tyeisha, to Nebraska Appleseed!  Uplifting and creating opportunities for advocacy and support for older youth is an important aspect of my role as Child Welfare Program Coordinator. I am so excited to have Neva and Tyeisha on our team for the next […]

In the Spring, we welcomed Teijah and Billie, two of this year’s Child Welfare Youth Fellows. Over the course of the last few months, our team has had the pleasure of working with both of them on some exciting projects. Their passion and drive came through in coordinating a donation drive of over 300 items

The Child Welfare Youth Fellowship is a five week paid experience where young people with lived experience work on a passion project, write a systemic blog piece and learn about the foster care and juvenile justice systems.  We are so excited to be working with Billie and Teijah right now as our first Youth Fellows

In 2010, Nebraska had the highest rate of children in out-of-home placements in the country. Yet, the majority of Nebraska’s reports of alleged child abuse or neglect are due to “physical neglect,” or poverty, rather than abuse, meaning these families need economic supports rather than removal. Non-Court Involved cases are cases where a report of