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It is the goal of Coercion Free Nebraska to foster a system of care for individuals and families that embraces and creates treatment environments that minimize coercion. To that end, CFN is further committed to prevent, reduce, and ultimately eliminate the use of physical, mechanical, and chemical restraints and seclusion for youth in care across Nebraska.

The transformed system of care must borrow concepts and be influenced by lessons learned from other delivery system models, such as public health, trauma-informed, and/or a recovery model. To ensure successful outcomes, the new system should:

  1. Encourage public and private stakeholder commitment, collaboration, and leadership.
  2. Design systems of care that are trauma-informed, emphasizing consumer and family empowerment.
  3. Adopt and individual and family-centered approach.
  4. Implement a public health prevention systems/delivery model with recovery, resiliency, and strength-based principles consistent with the President’s New Freedom Commission (2003) report.

The continuous evaluation of restraint and seclusion data combined with the ongoing use of targeted performance improvement initiatives, anticipates reinforcement of the prevention model, an improved practice, better outcomes and further supports the goal of eliminating the use of restraint and seclusion across Nebraska.