The Lakota Language class is designed for local Lakota community members to reconnect or improve their proficiency in their ancestral language. Students learn to speak, read, and write Lakota in addition to learning about culture and traditions. This class is taught by Beverly Running Bear, who is a Lakota language instructor at Black Hills State University. To register for this class, contact Theresa Stands at tstands@sbps.net or Maricia Marquez at 308-633-5091.

The Lakota Language class is designed for local Lakota community members to reconnect or improve their proficiency in their ancestral language. Students learn to speak, read, and write Lakota in addition to learning about culture and traditions. This class is taught by Beverly Running Bear, who is a Lakota language instructor at Black Hills State University. To register for this class, contact Theresa Stands at tstands@sbps.net or Maricia Marquez at 308-633-5091.

The Lakota Language class is designed for local Lakota community members to reconnect or improve their proficiency in their ancestral language. Students learn to speak, read, and write Lakota in addition to learning about culture and traditions. This class is taught by Beverly Running Bear, who is a Lakota language instructor at Black Hills State University. To register for this class, contact Theresa Stands at tstands@sbps.net or Maricia Marquez at 308-633-5091.

These workshops help students apply to college, for scholarships, and the FAFSA step-by-step. College and business representatives will attend to meet with students. Scholarship info for immigrant students will also be provided.

Estos talleres ayudán a los estudiantes a solicitar admisión a la universidad, aplicar por becas y completar la FAFSA paso a paso. Representantes de universidades y agencias de recursos asistirán para reunirse con los estudiantes. También se brindará información sobre becas para estudiantes inmigrantes.

These workshops help students apply to college, for scholarships, and the FAFSA step-by-step. College and business representatives will attend to meet with students. Scholarship info for immigrant students will also be provided.

Estos talleres ayudán a los estudiantes a solicitar admisión a la universidad, aplicar por becas y completar la FAFSA paso a paso. Representantes de universidades y agencias de recursos asistirán para reunirse con los estudiantes. También se brindará información sobre becas para estudiantes inmigrantes.

These workshops help students apply to college, for scholarships, and the FAFSA step-by-step. College and business representatives will attend to meet with students. Scholarship info for immigrant students will also be provided.

Estos talleres ayudán a los estudiantes a solicitar admisión a la universidad, aplicar por becas y completar la FAFSA paso a paso. Representantes de universidades y agencias de recursos asistirán para reunirse con los estudiantes. También se brindará información sobre becas para estudiantes inmigrantes.

This meeting is open to current volunteers and community members that would like to become a volunteer in 2025. We will discuss upcoming volunteer opportunities and then meet with representatives from the Nebraska Journalism Trust, who will be doing a listening session on potential news stories in the panhandle.

These workshops help students apply to college, for scholarships, and the FAFSA step-by-step. College and business representatives will attend to meet with students. Scholarship info for immigrant students will also be provided.

Estos talleres ayudán a los estudiantes a solicitar admisión a la universidad, aplicar por becas y completar la FAFSA paso a paso. Representantes de universidades y agencias de recursos asistirán para reunirse con los estudiantes. También se brindará información sobre becas para estudiantes inmigrantes.

These workshops help students apply to college, for scholarships, and the FAFSA step-by-step. College and business representatives will attend to meet with students. Scholarship info for immigrant students will also be provided.

Estos talleres ayudán a los estudiantes a solicitar admisión a la universidad, aplicar por becas y completar la FAFSA paso a paso. Representantes de universidades y agencias de recursos asistirán para reunirse con los estudiantes. También se brindará información sobre becas para estudiantes inmigrantes.

This program will help families prepare for the FAFSA application. Two local experts will give an overview of the application process and answer individual questions. All info will also be offered in Spanish for Spanish-speaking parents.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Este programa ayudará a las familias a prepararse para la solicitud de FAFSA. Dos expertos locales brindarán una descripción general del proceso de solicitud y responderán preguntas individuales. Toda la información también se ofrecerá en español para los padres hispanohablantes.

Be sure you get out to vote! If you need help finding your polling location, checking your registration status, or want to access our bilingual candidate brochure, use this link - https://linktr.ee/empoweringfamilies

More details to come!

Empowering Families is currently working with local Lakota leaders to develop a weekend retreat that will help pass on cultural traditions. More details to come, please save the date for now.

If you are interested in attending or presenting, please contact Maricia at maricia@empoweringfamiliesne.org.

H&R Block Senior Tax Analyst, Randy Wentz will show attendees step by step how to manage their business financials in this 3-day series.

El analista fiscal senior de H&R Block, Randy Wentz, mostrará a los asistentes paso a paso cómo administrar las finanzas de su negocio en esta serie de 3 días.

H&R Block Senior Tax Analyst, Randy Wentz will show attendees step by step how to manage their business financials in this 3-day series.

El analista fiscal senior de H&R Block, Randy Wentz, mostrará a los asistentes paso a paso cómo administrar las finanzas de su negocio en esta serie de 3 días.

Join us in closing out this Hispanic Heritage Month by funding the future of Empowering Families, a Hispanic-led organization serving the Panhandle of Nebraska through education, civic participation, and bridge-building.

Attendees will enjoy a Hispanic-themed charcuterie, taste Hispanic wine, hear about the organization's impact in the community, and participate in a silent auction. A cash bar will be available.    

• 6:00PM-6:30PM- Cocktail and Mingle

• 6:30PM - Program Begins

H&R Block Senior Tax Analyst, Randy Wentz will show attendees step by step how to manage their business financials in this 3-day series.

El analista fiscal senior de H&R Block, Randy Wentz, mostrará a los asistentes paso a paso cómo administrar las finanzas de su negocio en esta serie de 3 días.

Learn about how to build, improve, and use your credit score to create financial wealth. This workshop will be presented by Jess Caban of Center for Rural Affairs.

Register here - https://bit.ly/2024financialliteracy4

Empowering Families will host our 3rd bilingual forum. Come and hear from local candidates and learn more about what will be on the ballot in November. Empowering Families volunteers will be available to help attendees register to vote and share info on voting deadlines and regulations.

Empowering Families is a non-partisan entity dedicated to increasing voter participation in Scotts Bluff County.

Attorney Brendan Rice will present on the steps to legally creating your LLC.

Interested in starting a business? Join us for our business development series where attendees will learn the steps to legally create their business and how to administer their business financials.

Join us in celebrating the beauty of our diverse cultures in our community through food, art, and guest speaker, Shiloh Lebeau.

Shiloh “Shy” LeBeau was born in Lawrence, Kansas on April 13th, 1989. She is half Navajo, Diné of the Honágháahnii clan and half Sans Arch Lakota of the Cheyenne River tribe. She lived on the Lakota Cheyenne River Indian reservation in Eagle Butte, South Dakota for a couple years then her mother relocated Shy and her sisters to Lawrence, KS where she currently resides raising her son.
LeBeau boxed competitively since 2013 earning several prestigious awards, accolades and titles as well as making history for her family, Native Americans, the state of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University. While attending Haskell Indian Nations University from 2015 - 2018, she traveled to Ann Arbor, MI and competed in the 2015 United States National Intercollegiate Boxing Association tournament, bringing home a National Intercollegiate Boxing Title for the first time in history to the State of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University. She was the first full-time male or female college student to ever come out of the state of Kansas and achieve this success and in 2018 she went back and did it again at the University of Champaign-Urbana-Champaign, IL.
LeBeau also serves as a Nike N7 Ambassador, an inspirational beacon in her community and that of the Native American and indigenous communities, She uses her platform as a positive resource to spread awareness on Native American and indigenous issues that plague native America as well as breaking through barriers, making history and fighting to knock out the stereotypes of what, who and how Native Americans, especially Native American women, are portrayed and represented in today's society.
LeBeau travels to many states for motivational speaking and hosts boxing workshops at various Native American reservations, Schools, juvenile detention facilities, foster homes, military bases and other venues are the locations for LeBeau to motivate, inspire and provide mentoring services for youth to elderly, while encouraging them to live a healthier, happier life styles promoted through sport and exercise.
LeBeau’s mission is to educate others about the real history of Native Americans, to bring recognition and awareness Native American and indigenous communities and to change the narrative of our people and our beautiful way of life.

Shiloh LeBeau (@shylebeau) • Instagram photos and videos

Anthony Warrior is the Indianpreneurship Director at Nebraska Indian Community College. He works with Native American entrepreneurs and youth. He is also a notable chef and owns his own catering business. He will join us to provide a traditional cooking demonstration, using indigenous ingredients. He will also share about the symbolism and ritual involved with traditional Native American cooking methods.

Empowering Families seeks to increase voter participation in Scotts Bluff County in the 2024 general election. We plan to accomplish this through going out into the community and sharing information about voter registration, our bilingual candidate brochure, and our bilingual candidate forum. Canvassing is when we go as small groups, door-to-door in neighborhoods to share info about the upcoming election and our voting resources, like our bilingual candidate brochure and bilingual candidate forum.

In order to participation in canvassing you must have completed one of our non-partisan volunteer trainings. Our next training is on September 21 from 9-11 AM at the Empowering Families Office.

Register today for our upcoming volunteer training - https://bit.ly/2024EFVolunteer

Empowering Families seeks to increase voter participation in Scotts Bluff County in the 2024 general election. We plan to accomplish this through going out into the community and sharing information about voter registration, our bilingual candidate brochure, and our bilingual candidate forum. We can’t do this without the support of our community volunteers! If you are looking for a way to positively impact our community, we invite you to join us in our civic participation efforts. All volunteers MUST attend our non-partisan civic participation training before they can assist with canvassing and tabling at events with Empowering Families.

Register today for our upcoming volunteer training - https://bit.ly/2024EFVolunteer

H&R Block Senior Tax Analyst, Randy Wentz will show us the importance of effective financial management, and the tools to do so in this 3-day series.

El analista fiscal senior de H&R Block, Randy Wentz, nos mostrará la importancia de una gestión financiera eficaz y las herramientas para hacerlo en esta serie de 3 días.