Our Mission  

Our mission is to provide, education, housing and advocacy services to children, youth, adults, and families and to clients who may other wise fall through the cracks of our education, housing, and social service system while acting as a holistic resource and referral social service community center. To insure that all clients receive education, housing and advocacy services needed to have a healthy stable home environment and to become productive citizens. 

Early Childhood Parent Network™ 

The Early Childhood Parent Network believe parents are their child's first teacher. We believe parents and professional child-care providers and teachers can work together to ensure that children are prepared academically and for life. The network supports parents, home school parents, early childhood child-care providers in-home/centers, and teachers by inspiring, empowering, advocating and educating. We do this through educational services, conferences, training workshops, meetings, and advocating for policies and legislation pertaining to education, early childhood and parental rights. 

R.E.A.D.S™ Services 

Provides professional education development training seminars about dyslexia, advocacy, IEP  and other related topics to parents, childcare professionals, and teachers.

R.E.A.D.S” Training Seminars are approved by the Nebraska Department of Education Early Childhood Training Center. Participants receive a certificate and childcare professionals receive in- service credit hours.  Facilitator: Gwen Easter, certified dyslexia advocate, tutor, trainer, screener and consultant. Gwen Easter is appointed by Governor Ricketts as member of Early Childhood Interagency Coordination Council and the  African American Commission

Home Intervention Referral Housing Services Supporting the homeless, families and individuals who are in need of housing and utility assistance when in a crisis by connecting them to organization, landlords and advocating for services as needed. We receive referrals from 211 and other community organizations.

Some history about our services and issues! Please Read!  

Youth and Adult Literacy/ GED / ESL classes. Tutoring program for youth 18 years of age to adult age who have literacy issues who struggle with reading have a learning disability Dyslexia.   

Job Readiness Work Experience services for individuals and parents. (We Provided these services for over 14 years before the monopoly and gentrification began in North Omaha. The monopoly and gentrification done by our city, larger organizations and their partnerships continue to affect our grassroots programs and services.  (read below)

Safe Night Youth Rallies Events provided to discourage gang violence, and other issues and promote putting God first, Unity in the community –15 years of service to youth, families, and the community. Latest event 2018 

Referrals received from 211 DHHS Caseworkers DHHS Employment First, ResCare DHHS, Lutheran Family Services, Urban League, Heart Land Family Services. Partnered with Metro Community Center and other community organizations. 

Un fortunely these Services currently are on hold but will not be forgotten. They are apart of  our history. It is our hope in the future to raise funds to bring these services back!

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Please help our community STOP the Monopoly and Gentrification of North Omaha and the push out of families and private  childcare businesses! Safe Haven Early Childhood Preschool Education Academy was huge support for these programs.

Past services provided by Safe Haven Community Center before the monopoly and gentrification began in North Omaha around 2011 by wealthy rich organizations, like Sherwood Foundation, Buffet Early Childhood Institute OPS school system, and Learning Community which duplicated our organizations programs services. These partnerships also have taken control over the childcare industry and housing in North Omaha.  OPS and their partnerships are offering free early childhood daycare services and pushing their vision on North Omaha families which has displaced families and thousands of per domically black owned private childcare businesses have been forced out of business and many are struggling to keep their doors open.  

Gwen Easter the owner and founder of Safe Haven Community Center can no longer afford to use her Safe Haven Early Childhood Preschool Education Academy childcare business funds the way she used them to help support Safe Haven Community Centers programs.  However Safe Haven Early Childhood Education continues to provide space to house to Safe Haven Community Center free of charge. We depend on donations to help support the some of the programs and s provided to individuals, children, adults and families.   She continues to advocate and provide other services for children, individuals and families through other services listed on the website while she continues to advocate for herself, families and remaining childcare business owners who are struggling to keep their doors open due to the free early childhood daycares offered by OPS and their wealthy partnerships.

We would love to have support to continue the vision God gave her in 1998.

Through the years we have received
referrals  from 211 DHHS Caseworkers DHHS Employment First, ResCare DHHS, Lutheran Family Services, Urban League, Heart Land Family Services. Partnered with Metro Community Center and other community organizations. 

Please feel free to call us at the number listed above,

Thank You!