System of Care: Birth to Eight

FAST – (Families and Students Together) is a family support service currently modeled in Chadron, NE that offers multifamily group interventions designed to build relationships between families, schools, and communities. Families and Schools Together (FAST) is a parent-child evidence based project for children moving from preschool to kindergarten and for elementary aged children and their families.

The TEAMS Program (Together Everyone Achieves More Success) is a University of Nebraska Lincoln Extension project designed to improve middle school and high school students’ likelihoods of staying in school, graduating, and attending college. It is a partnership between UNL Extension, Western Nebraska Community College, Minatare and Scottsbluff School Districts, and the Panhandle Partnership.

- Community Response is the actions a community takes to develop a system of resources and services which strengthen families, build protective factors, and enhance access to prevention resources.

- Community Response dollars are intended to address resource gaps in a community’s existing services and to not supplant these resources. The Community Response process requires the broad-based collaboration of agencies committed working together to access all available resources.

- The intended population for Community Response are families with children 0-14 years of age who are at risk for entering higher end systems of care due to an assessed risk of abuse or neglect.

Assessment and Planning
- Ongoing assessment of community needs is part of the work of Systems of Care: 0-8.