Christian Heritage Childrens Home is focused on establishing and supporting high quality foster homes for the large number of kids in the Nebraska foster care system. The Family Finding unit also has great success in finding previously unknown family members who can become vital in helping a lonely child who is yearning for connection with real family. The challenge is huge. Each year Christian Heritage must turn away needy children due to financial constraints and the limited number of qualified foster parents.
Another facet of Christian Heritage is their efforts in Nebraska Prisons to educate and equip incarcerated parents to focus on their own children in order to preserve families and reduce the cycle of children following their parent(s) into the prison system. Classes on Fatherhood, Healthy Relationships and Parenting Skills using evidence based curriculum are taught to each participating inmate. Follow on training and in home help for the families of incarcerated parents is also being offered.
Christian Heritage staff are expanding the vision as time goes on hoping to expand their programs into other states to keep families together and reduce recidivism rates in participating prisons. Ongoing research is being done to measure and refine their efforts in order to show state and local institutions the veracity of the programs in meeting the intended goals and outcomes.
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- EIN 47-0632613
- (402) 421-5437
- 14880 Old Cheney Rd Walton NE 68461-9662 USA
- www.chne.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Foster Care, Group Homes, Human Services
Mission: To provide homes for at-risk children and programs to strengthen relationships and restore families.
Programs: Foster care: program designed to provide compassionate care and instruction to at-risk children by placing them in safe and loving foster homes.
family outreach: includes destination. . . Dad program designed to promote the importance of fathers and restoring families by sponsoring an annual father-of-the year banquet, statewide media promotion, and teaching curriculum to incarcerated dads to prepare them for reunification with their children. Also includes resources such as love for life to help couples prepare for marriage and to strengthen and support relationships that will last a lifetime. Love for life is based on the prevention and relationship enhancement program (prep), which was founded on extensive research in the field of marital health--including studies on what happy couples do right and what unhappy couples do wrong.
family finding: the family finding model seeks to build or maintain the youths lifetime family support network for all youth who are disconnected or at risk of disconnection through placement outside of their home and community. The process identifies relatives and other supportive adults, estranged from or unknown to the child, especially those who are willing to become permanent connections for him/her. Upon completion of the process, youth have a range of commitments from adults who are able to provide permanency, sustainable relationships within a kinship system, and support in the transition to adulthood and beyond.
unification services: to provide foster homes for at-risk children, unification services to keep "at risk" families together, family finding services to locate relatives of children who have been languishing in the foster care system and outreach services to strengthen and restore the relationships of incarcerated fathers with their children and families.