This brief examines state compliance with implementing the Indian Child Welfare Act, and provides recommendations to support best practices for ICWA compliance and measurement. Resource Link: A Research and Practice Brief: Measuring Compliance with the Indian Child...
This Benchguide provides an overview of the California laws and procedures for handling Indian child custody proceedings subject to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). Resource Link: California Judges Benchguide: The Indian Child Welfare Act Author: California Indian...
This document is a culmination of papers from a research symposium convened by the Center for the Study of Social Policy and The Annie E. Casey Foundation on behalf of the Alliance for Racial Equity in Child Welfare. These papers represent research related to...
This report describes the process and findings, discoveries and recommendations of the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation Commission, whose mandate was endorsed in February 2013. The governor of maine and the five tribal chiefs signed as...
Main state child welfare staff understand ICWA requirements, yet their knowledge of Wabanaki history is limited because it has excluded the voice of the Wabanaki people. This article outlines the process taken by a group of Native people and state representatives to...
This technical assistance bulletin, using 2013 data, highlights the disproportionality rates of children in the foster care system for all 50 states. Resource Link: Disproportionality Rates for Children of Color in Foster Care Author: National Council of Juvenile and...
American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth are almost twice as likely to be petitioned to state court for skipping school, violating liquor laws, and engaging in other behaviors that are only illegal because of their age (status offenses). This brief looks at the...
This document includes the official recommendations from the Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee to the California Judicial Council on how to amend rules and revise forms related to juvenile dependency hearings and adoptions in order to implement the provisions...
