Resources

Your Life Your Voice is provided by Boys Town. Boys Town, a national nonprofit, offers many resources for parents, families and children in times of need.

Talk to a counselor via text, phone, or email 24/7/365. Download their APP as well.

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

We can all help prevent suicide. The 988 Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals in the United States.

Launched in 2023, Kindness Kits is a neighbor

helping neighbor program of Blair Healing

Rooms. Products are gathered or purchased

with donated funds. Volunteers combine the

items into kits. Finished kits are provided at no

cost to partner agencies like pantries, law

enforcement, libraries and schools who

distribute the kits to those they serve.

Arbor Family Counseling in Omaha, NE offers student assistance services to Blair Community Schools' students and their families. Please click on the link for more information, or call the school counseling office at Otte Middle School.

This is a website that has a lot of resources for bullying prevention and conflict resolution.

Provides help to Nebraska families dealing with their children’s behavioral problems and mental health issues.

Boys Town National Hotline - a 24-hour crisis, resource, and referral line. Trained counselors can respond to your questions every day of the week, 365 days a year. They can help teens and parents with:

- Anger

- Chemical Dependency

- Depression

- Emotional Abuse

- Parenting Trouble

- Physical Abuse

- Relationship Problems

- Runaways

- School issues

- Sexual Abuse

- Suicide Prevention

Food Assistance

Please reach out to Otte Middle School at 402-426-3678 if you would like to participate in the backpack program.

1 in 9 children in the Food Bank’s 93-county service area is at-risk for hunger. The BackPack Program, a partnership with area schools, offers packs of weekend breakfasts and lunches to children. Each week during the school year, 8,357 packs—equaling 33,428 meals—of easy-to-prepare or ready-to-eat nutritious food are distributed to children in 252 schools in 112 school districts in Nebraska and western Iowa. Each BackPack is assembled by Food Bank volunteers.

The Coalition to Support Grieving Students is a unique collaboration of the leading professional organizations representing classroom teachers (including teachers, paraprofessionals, and other instructional staff), principals, assistant principals, superintendents, school board members, and central office staff, student support personnel (including school counselors, school nurses, school psychologists, school social workers, and other student support personnel), and other school professionals who have come together with a common conviction: grieving students need the support and care of the school community.

Common Sense Media provides resources to families, schools, and policy makers with the goal of helping kids interact in positive ways in the digital world.

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