Resources

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Policy Briefs

National Child Care Gap Assessment: Nebraska Analysis

3/18/2025

Policy Briefs

State Policy

Four Evidence-Based Reasons Why Increasing Child Care Ratios Would be Dangerous and Counterproductive

3/31/2025

Policy Briefs

State Policy

Improving Child Care Worker Retention through Tax Reform by Including Early Childhood Educators in the Educator Expense Deduction

4/8/2025

Policy Briefs

Federal Policy, State Policy, Workforce

Early Learning Facilities Policy Framework Update

5/12/2025

Policy Briefs

Federal Policy, State Policy

Supporting Child Care Workers as Parents: How the Kentucky Subsidy Income Exclusion for Child Care Employees Helps Increase Access to Child Care

12/1/2024

Policy Briefs

State Policy, Early Childhood Financing

The Opportunity Zones and the National Child Care Gap

4/29/2025

Policy Briefs

Federal Policy

States Investing in Child Care through Trusts and Endowments

7/29/2025

Policy Briefs

State Policy, Early Childhood Financing

TANF and Child Care Expenditure Accountability

6/19/2025

Policy Briefs

Research Briefs

Early Childhood Teacher Turnover in Nebraska

12/1/2018

Research Briefs

“Love for Children and Patience”: Voices of Nebraska’s Parents of Young Children

4/24/2024

Research Briefs

Family and Community Engagement

“El amor por los niños y la paciencia”: Las voces de los padres de niños pequeños de Nebraska

4/24/2024

Research Briefs

Family and Community Engagement

Omaha Metro Child Care Gap Assessment

2/23/2026

Research Briefs

Other

Summary and Recommendations from the Early Childhood Education Workforce Well-Being Research-to-Policy Convening

3/18/2026

Research Briefs

Federal Policy, State Policy, Workforce

Providing Child Care in COVID’s Shadow: Resilience and Well-Being in Nebraska’s Early Childhood Professionals

6/1/2024

Research Briefs

COVID-19, Workforce

Risk Factors for Depression Among Early Childhood Teachers

4/18/2019

Research Briefs

Workforce

Reports

“Worthy and Good”: Supporting the Head Start Workforce in Nebraska

10/1/2024

Reports

Workforce

Buffett Early Childhood Institute Five Year Report

11/30/2018

Reports

About the Institute

Buffett Early Childhood Institute Annual Report: Fiscal Year 2024-25

2/19/2026

Reports

About the Institute

Economics & Child Care: Where Are We Now and Where Do We Go?

7/09/2025

Reports

Early Childhood Financing, State Policy, Federal Policy

Nebraska Child Care Market Rate Survey Report 2025

7/22/2025

Reports

Early Childhood Financing

Nebraska Needs Assessment Advisory Council Guidebook: “We are all in this together.”

9/1/2024

Reports

Family and Community Engagement

Guía del Consejo Asesor de Evaluación de Necesidades de Nebraska: “Estamos todos juntos”.

9/1/2024

Reports

Family and Community Engagement

Rethinking Child Care Standards and Regulations

3/31/2025

Reports

State Policy

Who Stays in the Early Childhood Programs? Stability Starts with the Workforce

3/31/2026

Reports

State Policy, Workforce

From Pilot to Policy: Lessons Learned from Five Tri-Share Models

1/16/2016

Reports

State Policy, Early Childhood Financing

Superintendents’ Early Childhood Plan Annual Report: 2024–25

8/22/2025

Reports

Superintendents' Early Childhood Plan

The Superintendents' Early Childhood Plan Evaluation Report, 2024-2025

11/11/2025

Reports

Superintendents' Early Childhood Plan, Family and Community Engagement

Buffett Early Childhood Institute: Our First Three Years

11/11/2016

Reports

About the Institute

Buffett Early Childhood Institute: Start Early. Start Well: 10 Year Report, 2013-2023

2/15/2023

Reports

About the Institute

Elevating Nebraska’s Early Childhood Workforce: Report and Recommendations of the Nebraska Early Childhood Workforce Commission

1/24/2020

Reports

Workforce

Elevating Nebraska’s Early Childhood Workforce: One-Year Update

4/30/2021

Reports

Workforce

Elevating Nebraska’s Early Childhood Workforce: Two-Year Update

3/28/2022

Reports

Workforce

Elevating Nebraska’s Early Childhood Workforce: Three-Year Update

4/13/2023

Reports

Workforce

Elevating Nebraska’s Early Care and Education System: Building Capacity for Early Childhood Systems Year 3 Performance Evaluation

8/31/2023

Reports

Other

Elevating Nebraska’s Early Childhood Workforce: Four-Year Update

1/26/2024

Reports

Workforce

Nebraska Child Care Market Rate Survey Report 2019

7/1/2019

Reports

Early Childhood Financing

Nebraska Child Care Market Rate Survey Report 2021

7/1/2021

Reports

Early Childhood Financing

Nebraska Child Care Market Rate Survey Report 2023

2/28/2023

Reports

Early Childhood Financing

The Nebraska COVID-19 Early Care and Education Provider Survey II: Experiences, Economic Impact, and Ongoing Needs “Things are starting to take a toll.”

8/4/2020

Reports

COVID-19, Workforce

The Nebraska COVID-19 Early Care and Education Provider Survey III: “Holding It Together—and Hanging by a Thread”

5/16/2022

Reports

COVID-19, Workforce

Nebraska Early Childhood Workforce Survey: A Focus on Providers and Teachers

9/6/2017

Reports

Workforce

Nebraska Parents Speak About Early Care and Education

6/1/2017

Reports

Family and Community Engagement

Nebraskans Speak About Early Care and Education

3/29/2016

Reports

Family and Community Engagement

Nebraskans Speak About the Early Care and Education Workforce

10/24/2016

Reports

Family and Community Engagement, Workforce

Nebraska's Public Investment in Early Childhood Care and Education, Fiscal Year 2017

12/8/2020

Reports

Early Childhood Financing, State Policy

Nebraska's Public Investment in Early Childhood Care and Education, Fiscal Year 2019

4/15/2023

Reports

Early Childhood Financing, State Policy

Nebraska's Public Investment in Early Childhood Care and Education, Fiscal Year 2021

4/15/2023

Reports

Early Childhood Financing, State Policy

The Nebraska Panhandle: An Assessment of Birth-Grade 3 Care and Education

2/21/2019

Reports

Other

Superintendents’ Early Childhood Plan Annual Report: 2022-23

2/10/2023

Reports

Superintendents' Early Childhood Plan

Superintendents’ Early Childhood Plan Annual Report: 2023-24

8/1/2024

Reports

Superintendents' Early Childhood Plan

Urban and Rural Nebraskans Speak About Early Care and Education

3/14/2017

Reports

Family and Community Engagement

Using Short-Term Investments to Leverage Long-Term Sustainability: Supporting the Early Childhood Workforce with Federal Relief Funds

10/19/2021

Reports

COVID-19, Early Childhood Financing

Evaluation Briefs

Elevating Nebraska’s Early Care and Education System: Leadership Perspectives on Progress in the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five, Evaluation Brief 2023

11/11/2023

Evaluation Briefs

Other

Journal Articles

Profiles of Well-Being Among Early Childhood Educators

2/2/2023

Journal Articles

Workforce

Workforce well-being: Personal and workplace contributions to early educators' depression across settings

3/20/2019

Journal Articles

Workforce

Presentations

National Child Care Gap Assessment: Kentucky

9/23/2025

Presentations

State Policy

The Six Big Ideas

6/21/2017

Presentations

Professional Development, Superintendents' Early Childhood Plan

Other Resources

About the Buffett Early Childhood Institute

4/7/2025

Other Resources

About the Institute

Position Statement on the 2024 Farm Bill

12/31/2024

Other Resources

Federal Policy

Position Statement on Reauthorization of the Farm Bill in the 119th Congress

3/18/2025

Other Resources

Federal Policy

By the Numbers: Early Childhood in Nebraska

4/3/2025

Other Resources

Other

Selected Milestones

4/1/2026

Other Resources

About the Institute

Policy Framework

12/13/2024

Other Resources

About the Institute, Federal Policy, State Policy

Child Care Gap Map Fact Sheet: The Economic Impact of America's Child Care Gap

9/8/2025

Other Resources

Federal Policy, State Policy

Child Care Gap Map Fact Sheet: The Impact of Head Start on Child Care Access

9/8/2025

Other Resources

Federal Policy, State Policy

Professional Learning Catalog

2/13/2026

Other Resources

Professional Development, Superintendents' Early Childhood Plan

Early Childhood Professional Well-Being: An Ecological Framework

4/1/2022

Other Resources

Workforce

Superintendents' Early Childhood Plan Brochure

5/20/2025

Other Resources

Superintendents' Early Childhood Plan

Superintendents' Early Childhood Plan Overview

5/19/2025

Other Resources

Superintendents' Early Childhood Plan