Children’s Services Practice Notes is a publication for child welfare workers produced four times a year by the North Carolina Division of Social Services and the Family and Children’s Resource Program, part of the Jordan Institute for Families and the School of...
Discusses services for Native American children in foster care. Intended for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs), this newsletter addresses the prevalence of Native American children in foster care, provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act, CASA Tribal...
This article highlights presentations by a Tribal-State Child Welfare panel at the Association of Village Council Presidents 51st Annual Convention. Panelists represented local, regional and state organizations and provided suggestions on how to keep children in their...
This booklet seeks to provide a basic overview of the history and underlying principles of tribal governance, as well as information about tribes today to ensure that decision makers and members of the public at large have the information necessary to understand and...
The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) and the National Resource Center for Tribes partnered with the Two-Spirit community in Minneapolis, Minnesota to develop these digital stories. Digital stories were created by...
The Walking on Common Ground Gathering of December 2008 followed the tradition of previous Gatherings, bringing together tribal, state and federal justice communities to continue a dialogue that began 30 years ago. At the heart of the Gathering was the same commitment...
The National Conference of State Legislatures provides a list of States with links to their Statutes related to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). Resource Link: State Statues Related to Indian Child Welfare Author: National Conference of State Legislatures Date:...
Although Title IV-E of the Social Security Act is an important funding stream for foster care and adoption services in American Indian communities, limited research has been conducted on the facilitation of tribal access to federal IV-E resources. Historically, direct...
The document lists a number of Federal requirements, explains some areas of agency discretion and then presents questions for Indian Tribes to consider in determining how to operate a title IV-E plan. Part I covers the general Title IV-E requirements, then Part II and...
