Care Deeply.
Transform Lives.
Heal Communities.
A trauma and resilience resource for Nebraska's Native youth and their families.
Caring For Native American Youth And Their Families
The Society of Care is a trauma and resilience resource for self-identified Native American youth and their families in Nebraska. We care for our relatives by providing accessible, affordable and culturally sensitive behavioral care. As passionate advocates, we give Native youth a voice, connect them to services, provide wellness education, instill cultural pride, and empower them to build resilience. We believe in a brighter future for our relatives and are guided by caring deeply, transforming lives and healing communities.
Society of Care is Changing Lives and Empowering Communities.
We fill a critical need and are making a difference! Native American families in Nebraska have endured generations of struggle and marginalization. The legacy of this history is seen in disproportionate rates of poverty, illness and behavioral health concerns. Trauma impacts every facet of life, yet Native Americans are strong and resilient. We are honored to work alongside and assist our relatives.
The Core of
Our Care
Guiding Principles
- Care Deeply: The promise to see each individual as a relative worthy of quality time, respect and culturally sensitive care.
- Transform Lives: The lasting impact of clinical and cultural interventions.
- Heal Communities: Building upon the resilience of relatives to unite in building brighter futures.
Core Values
The care is family-driven, with the needs of the child and family dictating the types and mix of services provided. Family driven means that families have a primary decision-making role in the care of their children, as well as in the policies and procedures governing care for all children in their community, state, tribe, territory, and nation. This includes:
- Choosing supports, services, and providers
- Setting goals
- Designing and implementing programs
- Monitoring outcomes
- Determining the effectiveness of all efforts to promote the mental health of children and youth.
Our care is youth guided. Youth guided means that youth are engaged as equal partners in creating systems change in policies and procedures at the individual, community, state, and national levels.
Needed services and informal supports are available within the community, accessible and culturally and linguistically competent. Community-based services are enhanced by building partnerships with service systems and resources in the community and ensuring that management and decision-making responsibility are from community stakeholders.
Our care is delivered with cultural humility, with agencies, programs, and services that are responsive to the cultural, racial, and ethnic differences of the populations it serves. Cultural humility is the integration and transformation of knowledge, behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enable policy makers, professionals, caregivers, communities, consumers, and families to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. Cultural humility is a developmental process that evolves over an extended period of time.
Each child or adolescent has an individualized care plan developed by the family team, with leadership from the child’s parents or legally responsible adult and the child or youth. The family team includes traditional service providers and also engages non-traditional and informal providers and supports. The individualized care plan refers to the procedures and activities that are appropriately scheduled and used to deliver services, treatments, and supports to the child and the child’s family.
Empirically supported treatments (ESTs) and evidence-based treatments (EBTs), both frequently referred to as evidence-based practices (EBPs), are important components of Society of Care. Additionally, there are other practices that may not be empirically based that work in culturally diverse communities that are considered and used if appropriate. These practices may be called practice-based evidence (PBE) or community defined evidence (CDE).
Our behavioral health providers are trained in trauma informed approaches. Our team is also attuned to historical/intergenerational trauma and provides education on it. We offer therapeutic services, cultural support, and re-education.
Culture Is Connectedness
Society if Care is rooted in cultural understanding andrespect.
Our programming is structured to strengthen and reinforce cultural approaches and practices that further wellness. In doing so, we respect the unique legacy of each tribe, community, family, and individual. We strive to avoid making assumptions about cultural norms. There are 562 federally recognized tribes in the United States. Some cultural practices are shared across tribes, while others are not. Society of Care reinforces culture through approaches and services that:
- Respect tradition
- Celebrate the uniqueness of each tribe, community, family, and individual
- Appreciate those we work alongside as relatives
- Engage those with we work as full partners
- Acknowledge trauma
- Foster resilience
- Promote aspirational thinking and direction
- Celebrate individual strengths