Publications
First Five Nebraska publishes policy and issue briefs, original research and other resources to keep you informed and up to date on a variety of early childhood topics.
Legislative Highlights & Testimony
- Nebraska Legislative Highlights 2023
- LB58: Provide sales tax exemption on diapers | 2023
- LB271: Change reporting requirements for child abuse and neglect | 2023
- LB814: State biennium budget bill—section that addresses backlog of fingerprinting background checks required for the child care workforce | 2023
Policy & Issue Briefs
- Issue Brief | Child care and the CHIPS Act: Guidance for Nebraska sites | 2023
- Policy Brief | LB754: Child Care Tax Credit Act and School Readiness Tax Credit Act | 2023
- Issue Brief | Fingerprinting/background checks for child care professionals | 2023
- LR378: Child care subsidy reimbursement rates | October 2022
- Investing ARPA funds to strengthen Nebraska’s early childhood professional workforce | October 2021
- Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) | September 2021
- Coronavirus state and local fiscal recovery funds for ECE | July 2021
- Key provisions of the American Rescue Plan for Nebraska children and families | March 2021
- Nebraska’s prenatal-to-age-3 policy goals | 2021
- Nebraska’s prenatal-to-age-3 plan | 2020
- What the ‘fadeout effect’ really means for quality early learning | December 2018
Reports & Research
- Setting child care subsidy reimbursement rates (FFN/Pillars Research) | October 2022
- LR162: Efficacy of the School Readiness Tax Credit | February 2022
- Innovative financing solutions to expand quality early care and education in Nebraska | August 2021
- Using tax credits to help address child care challenge | February 2021
- Council for a Strong America: Early childhood programs’ scarcity undermines Nebraska’s rural communities | February 2021
- The Bottom Line: Economic impacts of inadequate child care in Nebraska | August 2020 Overview | Full Report
- Step Up to Quality—perspectives on the year one evaluation | 2016
Business & Economic Development Resources
English
- Understanding LB840 funding for child care
- Business leadership in child care advocacy
- No cost/low cost ways to support working parents
- How to talk to your employer about child care
Español
Newsletters
- June 2023: Highlights of the 2023 Nebraska legislative session, including improving maternal mental health, alleviating financial pressures on parents and child care providers and strengthening availability of access to child care; expanding Medicaid postpartum coverage; 2023 interim studies we’re working on with senators; Nebraska’s delegate takes part in Strolling Thunder on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; FFN’s Katie Bass selected for the upcoming Leadership Nebraska class.
- May 2023: FFN is accepting applications for the 2023-2024 Policy Leadership Academy through June 30; legislation that includes tax credits for child care workers and programs, households with children in child care and entities that contribute to growing child care in the state passes in the Nebraska Legislature; FFN leads impact study on LB485 which expanded the income eligibility requirement for the child care subsidy program; FFN hosts Dr. Jack Shonkoff, founding director of the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, in Nebraska.
- April 2023: Child care-focused tax credit package advances in the Nebraska Legislature, State Senator Eliot Bostar authors Lincoln Journal-Star op-ed: “A Crisis in Child Care”; Policy Leadership Academy graduates sharpened their strategic advocacy skills, learned how to leverage local movements to help drive early childhood policy change; The ‘Iron Triangle’: Why child care programs struggle to break even; thank you former State Senator John Stinner.
Press Releases
- New online dashboard shows public transit access to child care in Omaha, Lincoln | August 15, 2023
- Mitch Clark joins First Five Nebraska | November 4, 2022
- LB1203 proposes investment of ARPA dollars in initiatives to strengthen Nebraska’s early childhood system and professional workforce | January 20, 2022
- LB485 becomes law, widens access to subsidized child care and transitional child care assistance for working Nebraskans | May 27, 2021
- Passage of LB351 promotes child care quality, capacity in Nebraska | April 7, 2021
- Appropriations Committee’s budget proposal includes strategic investments in infants and toddlers | April 1, 2021
- Sara Howard joins First Five Nebraska | February 1, 2021