Success Stories by State: Nebraska

• The Diabetes Project
  May 2009
  Based on the high incidence of diabetes in these counties, a consortium of agencies was created increase the knowledge of local physicians regarding appropriate management of diabetes, increase patient awareness of the need for treatment and how to manage diabetes properly,and to increase public awareness of diabetes, the risk factors for the disease, and where to go for testing.
• Family Advocacy Network
  May 2009
  FAN was established to raise community awareness and educate providers about child abuse and domestic/sexual violence and to establish the FAN center as a coordinated response agency for victims and their families.
• Frontier Youth Initiative
  May 2009
  The Frontier Youth Initiative (FYI) was conceived as a response to the loss of funding for school nurses in a nine-county region of north-central Nebraska.
• Rural BASICS
  May 2009
  Rural BASICS (Behavioral Access Study Integrating Continuum Services) succeeded in developing and implementing a continuum of care that served individuals of all age groups and ethnicities.
• Mobile Unit Brings Cancer Screenings to Native American Women
  November 2008
  Describes how the Mobile Women's Health Unit works to meet the needs of Native American women living in rural areas.
• Sowing the Seeds of Hope
  July 2008
  Sowing the Seeds of Hope is responding to the mental health needs of farm families. This is a collaborative effort of project leaders in seven predominantly rural states: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
• EMS Co-op Helps Rural Providers
  September 2007
  Using the power of group purchasing within a cooperative structure, the North Central EMS Cooperative (NCEMSC) is an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) cooperative developed to serve Minnesota and surrounding states.
• Rural Chronically Ill Women: Online Support Network (aka "Women to Women")
  April 2007
  The Women to Women Project (WTW) aims to help isolated rural women with chronic illnesses adapt more successfully to living with their conditions in the face of limited access to health information and services.
• Behaviorial Health Resource Consortium
  January 2007
  Using an approach that integrates behavioral health into primary care practice, the consortium will add behavioral health faculty and trainees from the training program at UNMC to its existing array of services at the Good Neighbor CHC and to the diagnostic and treatment services of the Boys and Girls Homes programs.
• North Platte Dental Clinic
  January 2007
  This is to be a permanent dental clinic in North Platte, Nebraska, to serve Medicaid recipients and low-income self-paying residents.