A Collaborative Network of Care.
We strive to meet relatives and communities where their needs lie, respecting the uniqueness of each. Our model of care includes:
- Prevention efforts
- Trauma-trained licensed individual counseling
- Traditional healing approaches
- Youth empowerment and leadership development
- Family and parenting support
- Work to advance health equity
Behavioral Health
Society of Care coordinates and partners with Morningstar Counseling and Consultation, PC to provide culturally competent and trauma trained behavioral health services. Through this close collaboration, Society of Care offers quality clinical services across the State of Nebraska.
Morningstar Counseling was established on the Winnebago Indian reservation and has been providing services to American Indian children, adults, and families since 2012. Its team of clinicians and ancillary staff provide individualized care utilizing evidence-based and validated practices.
If you or a family member is interested in talking with a provider to learn more about our services or schedule an appointment, contact us.
If you are in an emergency situation or need immediate help, please call 911. Crisis counselors are available 24/7 at the numbers below:
Nebraska Family Helpline: 1-888-866-8660
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
National Crisis Text Line: text START to 741741
All Nations Hotline: text SUPPORT to 402-275-2444
The Core of
Our Care
Guiding Principles
- Care Deeply: The promise to see each individual as a relative worthy of quality time, respect and culturally sensitive care.
- Transform Lives: The lasting impact of clinical and cultural interventions.
- Heal Communities: Building upon the resilience of relatives to unite in building brighter futures.
Core Values
The care is family-driven, with the needs of the child and family dictating the types and mix of services provided. Family driven means that families have a primary decision-making role in the care of their children, as well as in the policies and procedures governing care for all children in their community, state, tribe, territory, and nation. This includes:
- Choosing supports, services, and providers
- Setting goals
- Designing and implementing programs
- Monitoring outcomes
- Determining the effectiveness of all efforts to promote the mental health of children and youth.
Our care is youth guided. Youth guided means that youth are engaged as equal partners in creating systems change in policies and procedures at the individual, community, state, and national levels.
Needed services and informal supports are available within the community, accessible and culturally and linguistically competent. Community-based services are enhanced by building partnerships with service systems and resources in the community and ensuring that management and decision-making responsibility are from community stakeholders.
Our care is culturally and linguistically competent, with agencies, programs, and services that are responsive to the cultural, racial, and ethnic differences of the populations it serves. Cultural competence is the integration and transformation of knowledge, behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enable policy makers, professionals, caregivers, communities, consumers, and families to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. Cultural competence is a developmental process that evolves over an extended period of time.
Each child or adolescent has an individualized care plan developed by the family team, with leadership from the child’s parents or legally responsible adult and the child or youth. The family team includes traditional service providers and also engages non-traditional and informal providers and supports. The individualized care plan refers to the procedures and activities that are appropriately scheduled and used to deliver services, treatments, and supports to the child and the child’s family.
Empirically supported treatments (ESTs) and evidence-based treatments (EBTs), both frequently referred to as evidence-based practices (EBPs), are important components of Society of Care. Additionally, there are other practices that may not be empirically based that work in culturally diverse communities that are considered and used if appropriate. These practices may be called practice-based evidence (PBE) or community defined evidence (CDE).
Our behavioral health providers are trained in trauma informed approaches. Our team is also attuned to historical/intergenerational trauma and provides education on it. We offer therapeutic services, cultural support, and re-education.
Culture
Is
Connectedness
Society if Care is rooted in cultural understanding andrespect.
Our programming is structured to strengthen and reinforce cultural approaches and practices that further wellness. In doing so, we respect the unique legacy of each tribe, community, family, and individual. We strive to avoid making assumptions about cultural norms. There are 562 federally recognized tribes in the United States. Some cultural practices are shared across tribes, while others are not. Society of Care reinforces culture through approaches and services that:
- Respect tradition
- Celebrate the uniqueness of each tribe, community, family, and individual
- Appreciate those we work alongside as relatives
- Engage those with we work as full partners
- Acknowledge trauma
- Foster resilience
- Promote aspirational thinking and direction
- Celebrate individual strengths
We Are All Related
Indigenous cultures believe all things in this world are connected therefore if something happens to one thing it will eventually affect all things. Elders tell us we are all related because within all creation is water and spirit. Some tribes believe the rock is our grandfather for he is the oldest living being on earth that has seen the most and watches over us like a grandfather would its grandchild. The earth is our mother as she provides food, water, and shelter. The sky is our father always providing water, light, and air needed to survive. These tribal teachings are universally known in Indian Country and taught to children at a young age.
Tribal and Native communities have endured a range of traumatic events that have given rise to the social, economic, cultural, and spiritual challenges seen today. Historical and intergenerational trauma is one of the most critical factors contributing to the creation of the barriers we see today when engaging families. Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart defines historical and intergenerational trauma as the “cumulative emotional and psychological wounding across generations, including one’s lifespan, which emanates from massive group trauma.” Much trauma can be traced to the disruption of indigenous lives and practices following contact with Europeans and harsh subsequent policies focused on assimilation, relocation, and termination.
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