Building Bright Futures
Task Forces Strategic Priorities
May 31, 2007
Making the Most of Early Childhood
• Ensure that all children eligible for Head Start receive highquality
early care and education.
• Expand education and training opportunities for child care
providers.
• Monitor the quality of child care in Omaha.
• Implement a proven parent education program.
• Explore the potential for a community-wide effort to provide
child care providers with benefit packages.
Providing Academic Support and Career Awareness
Providing Academic Support and Career Awareness
• Provide extended time for struggling learners in elementary
schools.
• Explore a Career Academy high school redesign strategy.
• Ensure that all youth have access to a fully qualified
professional counselor.
• Develop and implement a common data system.
• Communicate career opportunities and pathways.
After-School Mentoring and Tutoring for Excellence
• Ensure that all youth have access to a fully qualified
professional counselor, a tutor, as well as an adult mentor.
• Develop and implement a common data system.
• Create a formal, citywide network of youth-serving
organizations.
• Establish a mechanism for providing ongoing assistance to
youth development organizations.
• Develop the next generation of youth-service providers.
Reducing Truancy and Recovering Lost Youth
• Develop a common truancy enforcement protocol for
Douglas/Sarpy County schools.
• Develop a pilot truancy intervention program that
incorporates evidence-based best practices.
• Evaluate truancy approaches currently in use.
• Roll out truancy intervention programs in middle and high
schools.
• Develop and implement a program of individualized services
delivered by professionals.
• Increase information sharing among public and private
agencies to better coordinate youth services.
Addressing Adolescent Behavioral Health
• Encourage greater participation in the Youth Risk Behavior
Survey.
• Create an adolescent mental health care facility.
Financing Higher Education
• Provide funding for a post-secondary education for every low-income high school graduate from Douglas and Sarpy County.
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