Sarah Cruz is the Youth Program and Prevention Coordinator at UNL’s Center on Children, Families, and the Law (CCFL) and a Certified Social Worker in the State of Nebraska. Sarah obtained her bachelor's degree in Social Work from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 2020. Sarah joined CCFL in November 2023 after serving for a year as a Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) Coach at Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders Counties in Lincoln. Sarah’s current work focuses on the youth Coordinated Entry System and YHDP programming in both the Balance of State Continuum of Care and Lincoln Continuum of Care as well as management and implementation of the City of Lincoln’s rental assistance program, LPAC (Lincoln Prevention Assistance Common fund).