00:15:32 Sonia Coates: Sonia Coates - Valentine Children & Families Coalition 00:15:46 Anne Herman: Anne Herman - AVA Insights 00:15:53 Jessica Rockemann-she her hers: Good morning! Jess with NC Strengthening Families 00:16:00 Lindsay Bartlett: Lindsay Bartlett - NCFF/C4K 00:16:08 Sam Gross (she/her/hers): Sam Gross - Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders Counties 00:16:11 Shelly Witt, DHHS: Shelly Witt, DHHS Community Support 00:16:17 Lisa Janssen: Lisa Janssen, Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders Counties 00:16:22 Jennifer Skala: Hello! Jenny Skala, Nebraska Children 00:16:29 Margot: Margot Dainowski, DHHS Family Coach 00:16:29 iPhone: Diana Boutwell Sandhills Community Collaborative Central Navigator 00:16:31 Elci Warnell (she/her): Elci Warnell - Eastern Nebraska Community Action Partnership (Sarpy) 00:16:33 Jen Hale (she/her): Jen Hale, Nebraska Children. :) 00:16:34 Collena, Southeast NE Collaborative: Collena Laschanzky, Southeast Nebraska Collaborative 00:16:38 Mariana Schell: Hello, Mariana Munoz de Schell - Nebraska Children 00:16:41 Chris Schroeder: Chris Schroeder, Nebraska Emergency Management Agency 00:16:42 Zachary Nelson: Zach Nelson Consultant, Nebraska Children and Families Foundation 00:16:46 Teresa O'Donnell - Nebraska Strong Region 6: Teresa O'Donnell, Nebraska Strong Recovery Project 00:16:57 Sandy Nation: Good morning! Sandy Nation, Dakota County Community Response 00:17:01 Joanna Murray: Good Morning, Joanna Murray, NCFF Consultant 00:17:02 martha.marfileno: Good morning! Martha Marfileno-Bilingual Central Navigator at Buffalo County Community Partners 00:17:09 Kyle Kinney: Kyle Kinney, Nebraska Family Helpline...Good morning! 00:17:15 Denise Zwiener: Good morning, Denise Zwiener, Buffalo County Community Partners 00:17:18 lauren ward (she|her): Morning! ☀️ Lauren Ward, she/hers pronouns, Nebraska Children Anti-Trafficking Project 00:17:22 Lea Ann Johnson-Kappes: Good Morning. Lea Ann Johnson-Kappes, NCFF Consultant 00:17:27 Deborah Dancer: Hello, Good Morning, Everyone ~ Deborah Dancer - Douglas County CR 00:17:28 Judi Sickler: Judi Sickler, Kearney Area Community Foundation and Buffalo County Community Response Team 00:17:40 Schalisha/ She, Her, Hers: Good morning everyone- Schalisha Walker- Project Everlast Omaha 00:17:45 Hannah Young: Hannah Young she/her, Nonprofit Association of the Midlands 00:17:48 Alexandria Labenz: Alex Labenz, UNL-CCFL 00:17:49 Susanne Shore: Susanne Shore, First Lady. firstlady@nebraska.net 00:17:54 Leonor Fuhrer: Good morning everyone! Leonor Fuhrer, NCFF Community Consultant 00:18:28 Nikia Gunn-Abdulai: Good Morning everyone- Nikia Douglas County Community Response. 00:18:40 Randy McCoy: Randy McCoy, MACCH, he/his 00:18:47 Darla Berger: DHHS: Darla Berger- DHHS 00:18:58 Lindsey Drake: Lindsey Drake, The HUB 00:19:10 Regan Anson: Regan Anson, Nebraska Impact 00:19:29 Tana Miller: Tana Miller, Buffalo Co. Community Partners 00:19:56 Carmen Bradley: Carmen Bradley Eastern Nebraska Community Action Partnership 00:20:01 Rossana Jaeger Fremont Family Coalition: Rossana Jaeger with Fremont Family Coalition 00:22:58 Elci Warnell (she/her): Are The PSSF funds limited to COVID impacted families? 00:23:02 gabriellamctate: good morning Gay McTate, NCFF consultant 00:23:16 Tori Courter: Tori Courter, Central Navigator with Families 1st Partnership in North Platte 00:23:18 Jacki Trujillo-Fremont Family Coalition: Jacki Trujillo- FFC 00:25:47 Stacy Schenk: Stacy Schenk DHHS CFS 00:26:58 gabriellamctate: Are there any of the kinship funds available to help families with legal fees- this has been concern in the past when families outside of the child welfare system have sought custody or guardianshi[ 00:27:03 Jamie Bouslaugh: Good Morning from Norfolk Family Coalition ~Jamie Bouslaugh (Central Navigator) 00:27:50 Jeff Weaver: Jeff Weaver, Sarpy Disaster Recovery 00:29:28 lmacdonald: Liz MacDonald, Supportive Health Services Director, CAPWN. CR was recently moved from another department to mine so I am just here to learn as much as I can. Sorry, I had the wrong link and could not get on right away. 00:30:38 Sonia Coates: What about someone evicted in SD, moving to Ainsworth, are they eligible for the three months rent forward monies? 00:31:02 Denise Zwiener: Buffalo County, we put together an agreement with a local attorney that we could refer Community Response clients immediately to his office for $500 per client. We just received our first three referrals and all three were prevented from evictions. Working really well. 00:31:06 Brady Rhodes - Collaborative Coordinator CIN: Regarding the situation in Hastings, a good lesson learned from that one is that the property managers are such a key communication portal: if the property manager had known about us and what was available it would have impacted the end result. 00:31:26 Brady Rhodes - Collaborative Coordinator CIN: So we are working on creating a property manager database 00:31:59 Denise Zwiener: Buffalo County is hosting a landlord workshop on May 24 in Kearney to share all the resources available to residents in our community. 00:32:02 Judi Sickler: We are setting up a landlord clinic on May 24 in Kearney. 00:32:02 Deborah Dancer: Thank you, First Lady! 00:32:42 Elci Warnell (she/her): Recently, we were told that HPS funds can't be used if they are COVID impacted until they go through the ERA-Program. If this is a retroactive policy or just going further? 00:33:04 Deborah Dancer: How was Tribal Affiliation a problem? 00:33:05 Collena, Southeast NE Collaborative: Southeast Nebraska will have a landlord clinic in June. 00:33:40 Julie Nash: H3C will be holding another clinic in June as well. 00:34:16 Deborah Dancer: Please unpack the landlord clinics. I can do bullet point summaries. 00:34:50 Chandra Essex - Central Navigator: Thank you First Lady! One challenge we are seeing is the time between when the application is completed, to when it is matched to the landlord, and then when the payment comes. I have shared this information with John at NIFA. 00:38:02 Brady Rhodes - Collaborative Coordinator CIN: Regarding the Resource Night: we had a pre-registration that worked well in giving us some pre-contact with folks (we called and talked to each registrant and that handled several issues and had them prepped well for the night. We also then got to hear about childcare needs, translation, etc.). The other notable success was making a point to ask specific people to share it out and hold them accountable to that. 00:38:05 Alexandria Labenz: Alabenz@unl.edu 00:38:24 Denise Zwiener: Are there any communities who are bringing in staffing resources to host clinics within public access agencies (i.e. Salvation Army, homeless agencies) to help build the response for those in need within the current community infrastructure? Example, we are thinking of expanding Jubilee Center hours on Saturday mornings for people to come in for assistance and adding some staffing time to Salvation Army to set up appointments for people to come in. Then surrounding those agencies with supports?? 00:39:39 Deborah Dancer: Can we have Communication TA for each CR to reach out at these public events to allow parents/families/providers to access concrete supports? 00:39:45 Emily Kluver: If you want DHHS to staff your clinics, please reach out to me (Emily.Kluver@nebraska.gov) or your local community support specialist (Shelly Witt, Darla Berger, Darniece Amos and Stacy Schenk) 00:40:09 Jamie Bouslaugh: I have seen that also. In the Portal for the for the tenant says Payment complete and the landlords still says In review. 00:40:25 Elci Warnell (she/her): In my experience the biggest deterrents for our families -using the ERA-Program is that they have a 7day notice and don't feel confident that the process will be completed in time to prevent eviction. They don't believe the CDC stay will be honored by their landlord They also feel overwhelmed by having to prove COVID impact if it was middle of last year or a job loss with no unemployment claimed. Lastly, a lot of families are facing eviction due to divorce where the mom was staying home to care for the kids but now the husband has left . They are not responsible with all the bills and they have to quickly find a job on top of everything else. 00:40:53 Jacki Trujillo-Fremont Family Coalition: Brady-- would you share that google document 00:42:20 Brady Rhodes - Collaborative Coordinator CIN: Pre-registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdXZt1bkShnL-BRPrHTmG_10FmSSWOPp3KBLh9-VJkhYlZmRg/viewform?usp=sf_link 00:45:12 Christy Fiala: I understood the request to use an attestation form is to explain COVID impact not to attest to what your rent amount is. 00:45:20 Judi Sickler: I will send by email. 00:45:31 Judi Sickler: The flyer for our upcoming landlord clinic. 00:46:01 Alexandria Labenz: yes, that is what my understanding is on the self attestation as well. it is to show covid impact but lease is still required 00:46:15 Chris Schroeder: For Emergency Rental Assistance, as of noon yesterday: Omaha had more than 2,100 applications in the review process, with an average payment of $4,300 per household. Douglas County had already paid roughly $226,000 in assistance. Lincoln/Lancaster County had paid more than $2.3M in direct assistance. And the Balance of the State had more than $2.4M awarded to households (roughly $1.2M paid just this week). 00:47:38 Jen Hale (she/her): Dee, are you talking about CR packets available at Landlord clinics? 00:47:58 Tera Kucera: The attestation form "under penalty of perjury" is to provide documentation of financial impact of Covid, when other documentation is not available 00:48:30 Deborah Dancer: Perhaps, Jen. I think having something available if other needs exist beyond housing. 00:48:49 Denise Zwiener: Randy -- Do you have a list of resources for landlords that we could use to help inform them of the variety of resources available to our community beyond ERA? Kearney/Buffalo Co 00:48:56 Chris Schroeder: There is also Homeowner Assistance Funds for mortgage assistance on the way from Treasury, details are still forthcoming 00:50:31 Mary Pinker:  All Share in Chat Box: • Are there resources, such as local libraries, that are offering hot spots to school kids and other community members? access to high-speed internet? Are they being utilized?" Are hospitals or supports providing devices or access to connectivity? • Who else absolutely needs access to devices and the internet but doesn't currently have it? How are they making it work currently? • Are businesses, such as childcare providers, able to access internet resources? If not, why? How have they been impacted by this? 00:51:53 Randy McCoy: I don't have a list of resources specific to communities outside Omaha/Douglas Co. I can point you to Macchconnect.org. it is a website that we built last year that we try to keep updated with available resources. Most of it focuses on Douglas and Sarpy Counties, but there are others that are more general to the entire state. I will add that the site is down for updates and maintenance today, so you might wait until tomorrow to check it out. 00:53:47 JoAnn Gieselman: JoAnn Gieselman-Growing Community Connections 00:56:16 Elci Warnell (she/her): We have 1 library in Sarpy County that is providing hotspots that families can check out for 3 weeks but there are only 10 available. 00:56:43 Deborah Dancer: Elci - I love that. 00:57:38 Lindsay Bartlett: Also, a challenge is the professional development requirements for educators (including early childhood) and their need for devices, etc. 00:59:53 Susanne Shore: Lindsay: need for devices by childcare/educators or by parents/families? 01:01:02 Lindsay Bartlett: child care /educators 01:02:12 Elci Warnell (she/her): One tech issue that we've seen is that they have internet and device they can make work but not a printer to be able to complete/return paperwork. It's not always easy to print at the local library. 01:02:25 Chris Schroeder: County by county map of broadband access nationwide, broken down by percentages of persons currently using broadband speed: https://www.theverge.com/22418074/broadband-gap-america-map-county-microsoft-data 01:02:36 Sonia Coates: I can vouch that the rural area has REAL BAD internet. Mine is so sketchy most of the time. 01:02:48 Lindsay Bartlett: An example happening in Douglas County, there are PD opportunities happening but a child care provider only had their cell phone to participate. A provider's phone broke, so they were unable to complete their required hours. Nebraska Early Childhood Collaborative has been working on loaning a laptop, but there are issues with licensing of software as well as the loaning and availability of devices 01:03:31 Susanne Shore: Lindsay - great example that helps me understand. Thank you!! 01:03:45 Lindsay Bartlett: Many early childhood providers throughout the state have only a landline and/or snail mail, so for receiving the CARES Act funding stabilization opportunity, there was a lot of challenges in getting funding available to them 01:03:55 Margot: In Lincoln County, access to printers is an issue. Not every family has ability to get to library or DHHS office where I can assist them with printing. 01:04:08 Sandy Nation: Almost every family has a smart phone but completing a job application or Community Response application on a phone is almost impossible. 01:04:34 Julie Nash: Hall County continues to check out iPads and hot spots for individuals and families to be able to access services. We also have child care providers that do not have access to reliable technology. 01:06:11 Mary Pinker: o Immigrant Families and Non-English speaking needs: Community Sharing, All Share in Chat Box  Training Needs for local workforce  Barriers/gaps for non-English speaking families  Increased capacity for translation/interpretation/outreach services 01:06:17 Denise Zwiener: Buffalo County - Connectivity Our primary goal is to get devices into hands of those in need. We identified very early on that long term care homes needed more devices. Our partners were able to get 15 refurbished laptops from MotherBoard about a year ago. We then connected with Kearney Works and Central Community College to get laptops into hands of adults/youth working on GED's. Then we decided we needed to get more refurbished laptops. We have hosted a Fall and Spring laptop take back with Motherboard. We have purchased almost 80 refurbished laptops back from MotherBoard after recycle event for about $200-$350 per laptop. They are going to families of Migrant Parents and now we are working to get all our child care center directors as we are discovering they have been doing an amazing amount of work from the phones for over a year, excited to offer them about 10-15 laptops this spring for our last takeback. 01:06:56 Denise Zwiener: We still hear from families with loved ones in care homes, that the devices we provided helped them stay connected over this last year. 01:07:59 Collena, Southeast NE Collaborative: We've provided 30+ Chromebooks and 10 Eclipse hot spots to senior citizens who were in isolation due to covid. Our older youth also provided tech support for the seniors. We're still providing Chromebooks to CYI youth - 18 so far since December. FYI the Eclipse hot spots were just recalled by Verizon. Connectivity has been for seniors to connect to services and family and for older youth it's been primarily for employment applications and services. 01:08:09 Margot: As DHHS Family Coach, I am hoping yo alleviate some of the technology issues families / individuals face with my state laptop. I am waiting for a charger cord. Printing will be a bit more entail a little more logistical thought. 01:09:35 Margot: Yes. 01:09:53 Lindsay Bartlett: For Spanish speaking/bilingual needs in child care, our educators have next to no trainings available in their home language. Even if they speak English, we know that the retention for the trainings is enhanced if provided in their first language. Issues include regulations on who can offer a training in the first place based on state requirements, and the digital needs to participate in trainings at all at this point. And, the usual barriers we know already exist in early childhood such as the time and capacity available for providers to take trainings. Unfortunately this means that particularly with our Spanish speaking providers throughout the state, they are operating in an unlicensed capacity. 01:09:53 Mariana Schell: Another good resource in Lincoln, is the app called MyLNK that has all the different resources available for families and is in different languages. Families need wifi to download it to their phone for the first time, but can use it without it once they have it. 01:12:58 Lindsay Bartlett: The trust/access/connection brought up for non-English speaking families is certainly true for the early childhood providers in communities as well, which again increases the likelihood that early care is operating in an unlicensed capacity. These children will enter our public school system regardless, and without high quality care, will create a higher burden on the local public schools 01:13:10 Susanne Shore: Denise: so is a thought that we try to utilize the Motherboard model to help with childcares? 01:14:05 Denise Zwiener: We have been talking about developing a local chapter in Kearney/Buffalo County from the Nebraska Translators and Interpreters (NATI). Building a pool of local talent and also housing this chapter with a part-time coordinator without Kearney Works. Our hope is to have some scholarship funds for businesses/agencies to hire services. Also by hosting this work in Kearney Works, we are talking about how to engage the pool of interpreters and translators in educational opportunities, for example, support to engage an translators career goals to become a mental health therapist or nurse, etc. 01:14:18 Leonor Fuhrer: May Immigrant Families Taskforce Meeting: Thursday May 20th @ 10:30am leonorfuhrer@gmail.com 01:14:38 Denise Zwiener: within not without Kearney Works... Ugh 01:14:52 Schalisha/ She, Her, Hers: What was the hotline number you referenced? 01:15:55 gabriellamctate: With the support of DCCR - Project Harmony and Lutheran Family Services i have developed training for interpreters around mental health and for therapists using interpreters 01:16:04 Leonor Fuhrer: Those in need of immigration legal assistance can contact NILAH in order to be connected to the non-profit immigration legal service provider that can best meet their needs. 1.855.307.673 Monday thru Friday 9:00am-3:00pm 01:16:35 Schalisha/ She, Her, Hers: Thank you so much Leonor! 01:16:38 Denise Zwiener: Yes Susanne -- We collected about 40-50 laptops at our spring take back with Motherboard. We are buying them back with CWB funds and Communities for Kids grant funds, Rooted in Relationship Funds to get laptops to all child care centers needing a laptop. We are currently collecting the number of child care centers who would want a laptop to build our budget and determine funding needs. Motherboard has been fantastic! Turnaround is amazing. 01:18:34 Denise Zwiener: We have written a grant to host conversations within our Migrant Parent meetings in 01:19:04 Lindsay Bartlett: For incentives, a child care provider in City of Lincoln offered 2 PTO days added to their employees PTO bank if they got the vaccine, and they had 100% participation (versus the 70% other providers are reporting) 01:19:15 Denise Zwiener: Kearney and Gibbon to identify informal child care needs of those families to begin to understand how our community can support education and training. 01:19:19 Anne Herman: This came out yesterday - look what Ohio is doing: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/05/13/996445109/ohio-raises-the-stakes-to-boost-vaccinations-offers-5-1-million-drawings 01:20:25 Lindsay Bartlett: Anne I love that!! 01:21:27 Elci Warnell (she/her): That is amazing Anne, thanks for sharing 01:21:34 Jen Hale (she/her): What an idea, love it! 01:22:21 Sandy Nation: We've had a couple of our local food pantries partner with vaccine providers to have vaccinations available at the food pantry. 01:25:07 Julie Nash: In Hall County the Vaccinate Now Campaign is doing door to door canvassing, targeting underserved populations, informational packets are being delivered to households that include a brochure about the vaccine, hand sanitizer and a flier with dates and times people can go for a vaccine. Information is available in English, Spanish, Somali and Arabic. Tabling events are also being held in the community at events and businesses (for example at the local Cinco De Mayo celebration and outside following a church service) Assistance can then be provided to help people get registered. 01:27:00 Margot: Great work in Hall County!!! 01:27:55 Susanne Shore: https://www.motherboardrecycling.org/ 01:36:55 Mary Pinker: Link to Guided Meditation: https://youtu.be/exLaebgFO_8 01:40:17 Collena, Southeast NE Collaborative: Thank you, Joanna and Gay! Very much appreciated! 01:40:41 Anne Herman: Thank you, Joanna and Gay! I'm excited to use the video later :) 01:40:43 Sandy Nation: Thank you! 01:40:51 Jamie Bouslaugh: Thank you 01:40:54 martha.marfileno: Thank you 01:40:55 Julie Nash: Such a good reminder, thank you! 01:41:03 Elci Warnell (she/her): Thank you :) 01:41:21 Susanne Shore: THANK YOU everyone!!