Nebraska Supreme Court

Nebraska Supreme Court, doing business as Administrative Office of the Courts & Probation, is a state government entity that receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient and sub-recipient to support child welfare court improvement, juvenile justice diversion, victim services, and child support enforcement programs. The agency operates within the State of Nebraska and does not hold federal contracts; its federal footprint consists entirely of grant awards from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

The agency functions split evenly between prime grant recipient work (51% of recent awards) and sub-recipient arrangements (49%). As a prime recipient, Nebraska Supreme Court holds recurring formula grants under the State Court Improvement Program (CFDA 93.586) from the Administration for Children, Youth and Families, with awards spanning October 2021 through September 2027. The most recent prime grant—a $412,809 award effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027—supports judicial training, court process modernization, data system integration, and specialized programming for child welfare cases including family preservation, reunification, guardianship, and adoption proceedings. The agency also holds a project grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention for the Nebraska Juvenile Restorative Justice and Family Intervention Initiative (award date October 1, 2021, ultimate completion September 30, 2025), which funds statewide upstream diversion services including victim-youth conferencing, juvenile justice family conferencing, family group conferencing, and excessive absenteeism conferencing, with goals of reducing recidivism and disproportionate contact with the justice system for Black, Indigenous, and people of color.

In its sub-recipient capacity, Nebraska Supreme Court receives pass-through funding from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services and the Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. These sub-awards support child support enforcement under the Social Security Act IV-D program (CFDA 93.563), child welfare court training, AmeriCorps programming for adjudicated youth education and skill-building, victim services, domestic and sexual violence prevention, gun violence reduction initiatives, and problem-solving court operations. The Department of Health and Human Services passed through $1.5 million in child support enforcement sub-awards over the October 2019 through September 2024 period (CFDA 93.563). The Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice has funded multiple sub-awards addressing victim services and community-coordinated response to domestic violence, stalking, dating violence, and human sex trafficking.

Customer concentration centers on the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (12 awards) and the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women and Office of Justice Programs (7 awards combined), which together account for 73% of recent awards. Total federal dollars obligated across all 37 awards in the source period reaches $18 million. Two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal near-term recompete exposure.