Consultation-Capacity Building

CCFL’s faculty and staff bring a unique and comprehensive array of educational backgrounds and skills to support agencies that serve the wellbeing of children, youth, and families. CCFL has provided consultation and capacity-building services to a variety of human services agencies in substantive areas such as training, team development and support, coaching, change management, systems integration, program evaluation, implementation science, and human resource management.

Community Services Division

UNL's Center on Children, Families, and the Law organized the Community Services Division in 2003 to coordinate community and service-system development activities for populations at increased...

Ending Homelessness Planning and Development

In 2010, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness published the first Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness, creating a shared vision for communities where systems...

Homeless Coordinated Entry

Coordinated entry systems are designed to ensure that anyone experiencing or at-risk of homelessness is assessed in a standardized manner, is prioritized according to need, and is referred to the...

Homeless Management Information System

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires all organizations and agencies who receive HUD funding for homeless services to track client information in a Homeless...

Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center

(2008–2013) The Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center (MCWIC) was one of five Child Welfare Implementation Centers established by cooperative agreement with the U.S. DHHS ACF Children’s...

National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative

The National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative (NTI) strengthens the capacity of the child welfare and mental health workforce to use adoption-competent, trauma-informed...

National Center for Adoption Competent Mental Health Services

In 2023, the Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.) was awarded a five-year $20 million cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration...

Nebraska Center on Reflective Practice

The Nebraska Center on Reflective Practice (NCRP) provides training, mentoring, consultation, and evaluation to individuals and organizations in need of reflective practice. The human...

Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Analytics

In 2023, the Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Analytics (QIC-WA) was funded by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children & Families, Children’s...

Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development

The Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development (QIC-WD) was established at CCFL in October 2016 as a cooperative agreement funded by the Children's Bureau, a federal agency under the...

Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth

In October of 2021, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children & Families, Children’s Bureau funded the Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in...