This library contains over 200 articles and resources relevant to tribal child welfare, gathered from a wide variety of sources.
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Every assessment with a family can change the course of someone’s life. It is important to be self-aware, intentional about engaging with families, and to use the information to make decisions. Understanding bias is a step in the process of ensuring that family...
The Capacity Building Center for Tribes and National Native Children’s Trauma Center staff offer this first of a two-part webinar series focusing on Trauma-Informed Supervision in Tribal Child Welfare. Participants will: 1) learn foundational and tangible tips...
Connection to concrete resources provides additional opportunities for youth to gain the life skills necessary to navigate adulthood. The experience of trauma in childhood threatens and disrupts healthy development. Tribal child welfare programs and individual...
Trauma-informed and trauma-responsive supervisory practices supplement and support the tasks, duties, and responsibilities of tribal child welfare supervisors and staff alike. The best pathway to providing trauma-informed and trauma-responsive supervision is for...
As tribal child welfare professionals, you know the trauma that children experience in the foster care system. Best practice alone cannot alleviate the impact of being removed from the homes they know and the caregivers they love. To help process the trauma, grief,...
Prevention services can range from Active Efforts to Customary Adoption. Weaving cultural stories and practices into any decision-making child welfare practice is prevention. This document describes the three main types of prevention and provides resources aligned...
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are known to have lifelong detrimental impacts on a person’s well-being. While many ACEs materials exist, few focus specifically on American Indian and Alaska Native children. We’ve compiled those here along with other websites and...
Through these recorded webinars, presenters share their experiences around tribes in New Mexico coming together to address child welfare, the development of a state-tribal office, and most recently, ICWA higher standards which were enacted on July 1,...
The Center for Tribes highlights what tribal communities have long known and practiced – that culture is prevention and that Native youth are strengthened when cultural connections are nurtured. The 15+ resources highlighted within this document expand on...