Understanding and working to overcome biases helps ensure that they don’t get in the way of assessing a family’s strengths and needs. Though designed with frontline staff and caseworkers in mind, this learning tool has helpful information and strategies for any...
What is genetic memory? How can we know things we never learned? Emerging science is pointing to a broader understanding of genetics and what many indigenous cultures have long understood about how things are passed from one generation to the next. Resource Link:...
Focusing on suicide prevention of Alaska Natives, this group, named for the Yup’ik word meaning “bright light”, worked on a public awareness campaign in members communities throughout the state. Helping communities bring healing and build leadership...
Indian Country is regularly portrayed by Hollywood as having romantic, ecological, and stoic characterizations of life. In reality, Tribal people have suffered generations of abuse and exploitation and continue to endure many of the highest rates of victimization and...
Hawaiian children and their teacher tell a powerful story of ancient traditions that they’re keeping alive and the valued place for those that embrace their masculine and feminine traits. Resource Link: A Place in the Middle Author: PBS HAWAII Date:...
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...
The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 is one of the key components to protecting the rights and culture of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children and families. Unfortunately, not all child welfare caseworkers are aware of how to apply ICWA or the...
The Alaska Resilience Initiative promotes healthy communities and works to end child maltreatment. Leaders of this initiative hosted a 2016 gathering to ensure Alaska Native voices were heard. Participants provided recommendations on how to make existing...
From the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, this webinar shares information on ACEs and highlights evidence based and promising practices for working with children exposed to violence. Traditional and community-based efforts to address the problem are...
