All Indian children deserve a strong, protective circle of caring adults to ensure they are loved, safe, and connected to their community, tribe, and culture. ICWA recognizes how important those connections are while also ensuring the continued existence of tribal...
Working Together for Better Outcomes Active efforts, a legal requirement included in the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), is the gold standard of child welfare practice. Designed to keep families together, active efforts outline the actions caseworkers must take to...
Tribal child welfare staff are exposed to the traumas of others on a regular basis and are at increased risk to experience symptoms of secondary traumatic stress. This webinar discussed the personal, professional, and organizational impacts of secondary traumatic...
“Children and youth under age 18 constitute nearly one third of the American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) population in the United States, yet data on this sub-population’s needs and interests can be hard to come by. Social media data represent an increasingly...
