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Helping Children & Youth Unable to Live at Home

Kids Unable to Live at Home

For those kids who are unable to live at home due to abuse, neglect, homelessness, running away or family crises, CEDARS provides an array of safe places to stay that offer structure and support while working to facilitate a successful transition to a more permanent living situation.

Foster Care & Kinship Families

CEDARS foster families provide a welcoming home to children and youth, ages birth to 18, who are unable to live safely at home. Our foster care program helps kids move from a state of crisis to stability while working to either return home safely or find permanency in the form of adoption, guardianship or independent living.

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CEDARS Emergency Shelter 

CEDARS Pioneers Center provides short-term care to youth ages 12-18, who do not have immediate access to a safe or more appropriate living arrangement. The center serves male and female clients and can provide care for up to 16 total youth at one time. CEDARS Basic Center provides short-term care for parents who need a break from their kids to continue to provide effective care.

CEDARS Reception Center 

CEDARS Reception Center offers a safe, community-based facility for probation officers and law enforcement to conduct initial assessments and access expanded intake assessments, as well as support any referrals for youth and their families. The center operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with immediate intervention services conducted on-site as needed. Youth may remain at the Reception Center for up to 24 hours. Law enforcement officers will be able to leave youth at the center with CEDARS staff and a probation officer.

Bridges Transitional Living Program

CEDARS Bridges Transitional Living Program offers safe housing and supportive services to homeless youth (ages 17-22), probation and state ward youth (ages 17-19 and pregnant and parenting youth who are homeless (ages 18-24), for whom independent living is identified as the service goal. Additionally, permanent supportive housing is available in the Southeast Service area for youth (ages 19 – 24) who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

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Street Outreach Services and Youth Opportunity Center

CEDARS Street Outreach Services (SOS) provide street-based assistance to runaway, homeless and at-risk youth between the ages of 13-21 in Lincoln, Nebraska.  CEDARS Youth Opportunity Center is a place where those youth can “drop-in” to receive a hot meal, do laundry, follow hygiene routines, complete job and housing applications, receive educational support and relax. 

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To learn more about any of CEDARS services, please call 402-434-5437 or email [email protected].

Helping Youth Involved in the Juvenile Justice System

Youth Intervention

For kids who are involved with the youth justice system or are at high risk of becoming involved, CEDARS provides positive development programs. These programs focus on preventing future law violations and preparing kids for a successful life in the community. In these programs, kids receive support in the areas of education, employment, fundamental living skills, crisis intervention and building healthy relationships.

Ecological In-Home Family Services 

The Ecological Model is an evidence-based program that uses a strength-focused intervention design to provide home and community support for kids and families. This program utilizes in-home, family visits to build stronger family bonds, improve safety and connect them to community resources. These goals are accomplished through careful assessment and service planning, direct family engagement, implementation of relationship building, stress management and problem-solving strategies. 

Motivational Interviewing 

CEDARS offers Motivational Interviewing, a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication with particular attention to the language of change. The service is designed to strengthen personal motivation for, and commitment to, a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion. 

Community Youth Coaching

Community Youth Coaching is a youth-guided, family-driven service that provides intensive relationship building, skill-building and positive youth development as an alternative to detention.

Education Services

In partnership with the Nebraska Department of Education, CEDARS supports youth by providing individualized educational services to re-engage youth with their education and increase their chances of academic success. 

Clinical Services 

CEDARS Clinical Services provides a variety of trauma-responsive behavioral and mental health services for children, youth and families. The following therapeutic services are available to CEDARS service recipients and their families:

• Assessments, including trauma assessments, substance use evaluations and co-occurring evaluations
• Brief crisis stabilization
• Individual and family outpatient counseling, using evidence-based treatment models with an emphasis on trauma recovery
• Clinical consultation for program staff, foster parents and clients

CEDARS accepts Medicaid, Blue Cross-Blue Shield and Probation vouchers for payment of services. Services are provided for individuals and families in the office, on-site in CEDARS programs, at school or other appropriate community settings.

CEDARS also offers Electronic Monitoring services for youth whose behaviors put themselves or the community at risk.

To learn more about any of CEDARS services, please call 402-434-5437 or email us at [email protected]

“Brand” tree: a biologist about the nature of the Tomsk cedar

TOMSK, November 1 – RIA Tomsk. Pinus sibirica – that’s what it sounds like
the Latin name of one of the brands of the Tomsk region, Siberian cedar. How
cedar differs from other plants of Siberia, where its relatives live and what
record-breaking cedars are found in Tomsk forests, RIA Tomsk told about this
Doctor of Biological Sciences Sergey Goroshkevich.

Cedar or pine?

Goroshkevich studies cedar at the Institute
monitoring of climatic and ecological systems of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Scientific station “Kedr” with breeding and introduction nursery
located in the village of Kurlek, Tomsk region.

The “branded” tree of Tomsk is called differently:
someone says “cedar”, someone “pine”. Goroshevich
prefers the word “cedar”, even though the tree refers
to the genus “pine”.

“Indeed, the Latin scientific name of this species Pinus sibirica is translated as “Siberian pine”.
translating poplar trembling. But we do not say that we are building a bathhouse from poplar
trembling. We build from aspen. So why translate Latin into Russian
the name of the cedar, if it already has a Russian scientific name – cedar
Siberian?” he explains.

© from the website of the administration of the Tomsk region

The Tomsk encyclopedia of cedar combined 357 related words

Biologist says that Russian people saw Siberian cedar
approximately in the XIII-XV centuries, when they began to visit the Urals and the North-East of European
parts of Russia.

“Saw. How to call what you see for the first time?
You start looking for associations. The bible mentions cedar, for example, King Solomon
built his famous palace from Lebanese cedar. Russian people and
it seemed that in front of them was the same cedar – a majestic tree, it smells good,
with pink wood. So they called it cedar, and they were right to
100%,” says the expert.

European relatives

The closest relative of the Siberian stone pine is the European stone pine (Pinus cembra). He lives in
Alps and Carpathians. It was his ancient Romans called cedro. It is found only high in the mountains, where the climate
similar to Siberian: long winter, short summer. In appearance from cedar
not every botanist will distinguish it from Siberian.

Siberian character

“To take root in a new place, any plant
First of all, you need a suitable climate. Cedar feels good in
the European part of the country, it grows well, but without human help it is never there
will not settle, because native species grow even faster. In Siberia, on the other hand,
it is the cedar that gets the advantage,” says Goroshkevich.

© website of Rosselkhoznadzor RF

Very hungry caterpillar: silkworm threatens Tomsk cedar forests

How is cedar different from other Siberian conifers?

“Nut fruit and longevity. Cedar seeds –
the main food for taiga animals and birds. Fir lives 150-200 years, spruce –
200-250, pine – 250-300, cedar – 300-350. And speaking of conditions,
which the cedar grows slowly, for example, in the mountains, in the north of the region and in
swamps, then here a tree can live up to 600-700 years,” says the biologist.

Long-lived cedar

One of these “age” trees was
discovered by employees of the laboratory of dendroecology of the Institute of Monitoring
of climatic and ecological systems of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, headed by Goroshkevich.

“We found a cedar that is about 700 years old, that is, it
was born before the Battle of Kulikovo. This cedar grows between the rivers Tom and
Obi, in the swamp. Yes, he can be called a record holder. The exact age of the tree
is established along the annual rings, but at the base of the cedar they are a little
are destroyed, so we set the approximate age – plus or minus two or three tens
years,” shared Goroshkevich.

Science and forestry

“Our main scientific task is research
cedar diversity and its interaction with climate. We are studying how
cedar populations function and reproduce in different regions of Siberia. Without
This makes it impossible to properly develop forestry and restore the “lost”
cedar forests. This work requires caution and a sense of proportion,” says the biologist.0005

The specialist emphasizes that the forest as a natural ecosystem in
does not need care. “To whom a man has come to help, that is the worst of all, because people
with their help, they weaken the competitive properties of the species,” the specialist adds.

“Only disabled plants need care. If
we will look after healthy viable species, for example, cedar, then
they eventually become incapable of self-reproduction. So
that our task is to observe, but not to interfere. This is when talking about
natural forests. It is quite another thing – man-made forests, or rather – forest
plantations. Here, on the contrary, without technological and breeding achievements,
get by,” he says.

Selection fruits

Sergei Goroshkevich combines his work with cedar
fundamental science and business: head of Siberian Academy
trees and shrubs” (LLC “SADiK”). This enterprise
Russian scale: not so much in size as in geography. cedars,
grown in the Tomsk nursery, “disperse” throughout Russia: from
Petersburg to Vladivostok.

“When I started 30 years ago, there was one variety
cedar. Take it and plant it. We currently have dozens of varieties. They
differ in many ways. Some grow noticeably faster than wild cedar,
others are much slower. Some are completely sterile and not a single bump
will never give. Others, on the contrary, are many times superior to wild cedar in terms of
yields, “explains the specialist.

Goroshkevich carries out breeding work in two directions.
The first is the selection of varieties for industrial plantations.

© provided by the press service of the Tomsk executive committee of the ONF

The demolition of cedars in the Tomsk region was suspended after complaints from local residents

“In an open field we plant cedars, specially grafted
selected clones. They grow beautiful, curly, thick. Through
for some time, much faster than in nature, they begin to give bumps.
The quality of the walnut is perfect. In Soviet times, these works were financed, and
For the past 25 years, there has been no interest from the state,” he says.

“These projects are long-term.