Community Collaborators
CEDARS, Center for People in Need, CenterPointe, Consumer Credit Counselors, First Plymouth Congregational, Food Bank of Lincoln, Lens Crafters, Legal Aid of Nebraska, Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department, Lincoln Housing Authority, Mid Town Center, Professional Eye Care, Union College, and Volunteer Partners.
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For nearly seven decades, thousands of vulnerable children and youth have found safe refuge and a new beginning at CEDARS. One of Nebraska’s most trusted child-service organizations, CEDARS makes sure that children feel safe and secure.
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The Center for People in Need provides comprehensive services and opportunities to support low-income, high needs families and individuals as they strive to lift themselves out of poverty and achieve economic self-sufficiency.
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CenterPointe provides treatment, rehabilitation, recovery support and housing for people overcoming addiction or co-occurring mental illness and addiction. We have 6 facilities in Lincoln, Nebraska.
We serve Nebraska’s low-income and indigent men, women and teens because our community is only as healthy as the most vulnerable among us.
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Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Nebraska, Inc. (CCCSN) is a non-profit community service organization, dedicated to delivering professional consumer credit education, confidential counseling and debt management to all segments of society regardless of their ability to pay.
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First-Plymouth strives to blend tradition and innovation, the historical and the contemporary. Our worship services have a quality that echoes through the ages and yet, speaks to the present and points to the future. Our religious life is shaped by five guiding principles: We are Christian, Open-minded, Spiritual, Evolving and Diverse.
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Professional Eye Group and Lenscrafters collaborate with MTKO to offer the Vision Improvement Project which provides screening and necessary eye care treatment to homeless and hear homeless adults and children.
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For 48 years, Legal Aid of Nebraska has provided “dignity, hope, self-sufficiency and justice through quality civil legal aid for those who have nowhere else to turn.” The fundamental goal of legal aid services is simple—to provide free legal representation to underprivileged citizens and to cultivate self-sufficiency among their clients.
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The Food Bank works with the Center for People in Need to sponsor mobile pantries at five sites per week in Lincoln. This program, called Neighborhood FOOD, is held at community gathering places in some of Lincoln’s poorest areas and currently serves approximately 1,300 families per week.
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It is the mission of the Lincoln Housing Authority - Lincoln Nebraska, to provide affordable, safe, sanitary and decent housing to qualifying families currently undergoing financial stress in a manner which affords applicants and tenants dignity and minimal intrusion, within the limits of prudent fiscal management.
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"Our goal is to connect vulnerable populations to a source of health care."
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The Midtown Center is the Day Rehabilitation program for persons challenged by the symptoms of a severe mental illness. The basic premise of the Midtown Center is that work is important for everyone.
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Professional Eye Group and Lenscrafters collaborate with MTKO to offer the Vision Improvement Project which provides screening and necessary eye care treatment to homeless and hear homeless adults and children.
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Core values are not expressions of who we want to become, but who we are. At Union College, our beliefs serve as the soil from which our vision and mission flower.
Memberships and Affiliations
Community Services Initiative, Dietetics Association, Food & Hunger Coalition, Homeless Voucher Program Committee, Human Services Federation, and Lincoln-Lancaster Homeless Coalition/Continuum of Care.
