For Providers. By Providers.
Who We Are
Stronger Together Nebraska is a provider-led community built on a simple belief: the people who care for Nebraska's children are stronger when we're connected.
We come from different roles, settings, and communities,
but we share something important.
We understand what it means to care for children and families,
and we each bring knowledge and perspectives worth sharing.
Different roles. Different experiences. One community.
Stronger together.
Our Mission
Our mission is simple: to bring Nebraska's child care community together.
We create opportunities to connect, share, and learn from one another. We help make information easier to find and issues easier to understand. Most importantly, we create space for every voice to be part of the conversation.
Because none of us should have to do this work alone.
Our Vision
Our vision is even simpler:
A Nebraska child care community where everyone who cares for children feels connected, valued, informed, and empowered to use their voice.
Why Stronger Together?
Nebraska already has amazing organizations doing important work for child care. We're not here to duplicate that work. We're here to help connect it.
There are times when we need more than another training. We need a place to come together, make sense of what's happening, learn from one another, or experts in the field and understand how it affects us.
Whether it's DHHS, the Legislature, CCDBG, Head Start, or another issue affecting child care, we want to help turn “I didn't know about that” into “we know what this means, and we know what we can do.”
Provider-Led, By Design
The people closest to the work should be part of the conversations that shape the work.
But provider-led doesn't mean provider-only. If you care for children, you belong here.
Listen
Every Experience Matters
We make space for the voices and experiences of those who care for children every day.
Connect
We are Stronger Together
We bring caregivers, providers,
organizations, experts, and
community together.
Include
Everyone has a Place
Different roles and
perspectives make our childcare community stronger.
Stronger Together is provider-led because lived experiences matter.
But provider- led doesn't mean provider-only.
If you care for children, You belong here.
What We’re Working Toward
Three priorities are guiding our work this year.
CONNECT
Build a connected child care community.
Bring providers across roles and settings together, strengthen our collective voice, and build shared language for how we define and talk about the child care profession.
MAKE VISIBLE
Help Nebraska see child care.
Make the work, experiences, challenges, and impact of child care providers more visible so communities better understand the role child care plays in Nebraska.
BUILD RELATIONSHIPS
Bring people closer to the work.
Create stronger connections between providers, communities, organizations, and elected officials so the people closest to child care are part of the conversations that affect it.