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...
Recorded February 9, 2023 This webinar, hosted by the Capacity Building Center for Tribes, is titled 4C for Cherokee Children Cultural Connection and is presented by Bette Nelson and Lou Stretch of Cherokee Nation Indian Child Welfare. In this 70-minute webinar, learn...
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...
“When we are experiencing and interacting with culture, we are doing more than just putting smiles on our faces, we are changing our chemistry and strengthening our protective factors that have both immediate and long-term effects. Leading this call were our friends...
“This webinar will focus on the resilience and strengths of tribal communities through the use of culture. A brief look at historical trauma, cultural protective factors, and evidence-based factors will be discussed. Grantees will share their knowledge on how...
“Cultural values are the threads that tie one tribe’s or village’s practices to other Indigenous practices; they are also the links between the past and the present. They align with what the research tells us works in prevention.” Resource Link:...
