Kids Unable to Live at Home
For those kids who are unable to live at home due to abuse, neglect, homelessness, running away or family crises, CEDARS provides an array of safe places to stay that offer structure and support while working to facilitate a successful transition to a more permanent living situation.
Foster Care & Kinship Families
CEDARS foster families provide a welcoming home to children and youth, ages birth to 18, who are unable to live safely at home. Our foster care program helps kids move from a state of crisis to stability while working to either return home safely or find permanency in the form of adoption, guardianship or independent living.
CEDARS Emergency Shelter
CEDARS Pioneers Center provides short-term care to youth ages 12-18, who do not have immediate access to a safe or more appropriate living arrangement. The center serves male and female clients and can provide care for up to 16 total youth at one time. CEDARS Basic Center provides short-term care for parents who need a break from their kids to continue to provide effective care.
CEDARS Reception Center
CEDARS Reception Center offers a safe, community-based facility for probation officers and law enforcement to conduct initial assessments and access expanded intake assessments, as well as support any referrals for youth and their families. The center operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with immediate intervention services conducted on-site as needed. Youth may remain at the Reception Center for up to 24 hours. Law enforcement officers will be able to leave youth at the center with CEDARS staff and a probation officer.
Bridges Transitional Living Program
CEDARS Bridges Transitional Living Program offers safe housing and supportive services to homeless youth (ages 17-22), probation and state ward youth (ages 17-19 and pregnant and parenting youth who are homeless (ages 18-24), for whom independent living is identified as the service goal. Additionally, permanent supportive housing is available in the Southeast Service area for youth (ages 19 - 24) who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
Street Outreach Services and Youth Opportunity Center
CEDARS Street Outreach Services (SOS) provide street-based assistance to runaway, homeless and at-risk youth between the ages of 13-21 in Lincoln, Nebraska. CEDARS Youth Opportunity Center is a place where those youth can "drop-in" to receive a hot meal, do laundry, follow hygiene routines, complete job and housing applications, receive educational support and relax.
