This document provides a sample customary adoption order that can be utilized by tribes. Resource Link: Sample Customary Adoption Order (California Tribe, sample 1) Author: Tribal STAR Date:...
Created for the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, this document provides an overview of Tribal Customary Adoption laws in California and provides background details, talking points, and answers to frequently asked questions. Resource Link: California Assembly Bill 1325...
This fact sheet answers a set of questions on customary adoption and is designed to help county social workers. Resource Link: Customary Adoption Fact Sheet for County Social Workers Author: Tribal STAR Date:...
This issue brief provides a broad overview of the crossover between the child welfare field and the work currently being done to prevent and respond to human trafficking of children and youth in the United States. There is a particular focus on sex trafficking of...
Within the 2015 Synergy Newsletter of the Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody is an article on Trafficking in Native Communities. The author provides a review of the existing but limited research and data, and offers recommendations for...
This 2011 article, written by Sandi Pierce and Suzanne Koepplinger of the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center, discusses the existing sex trafficking research of Native women and girls, their unique vulnerability, gaps in existing support services and legal...
The Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition and the Prostitution Research & Education detail their findings from a study involving 105 Native women. This article also includes recommendations on how to improve outcomes for Native women. The goal of...
The Tribal Law and Policy Institute examined the issue of the co-occurrence of domestic violence and child maltreatment in Indian Country. Using a mixed method approach, this investigation sought to identify those practices that seem to be moving toward...
This fact sheet answers nine questions on customary adoption and is designed to help Tribal Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Social Workers. Resource Link: Customary Adoption Fact Sheet For Tribal ICWA Social Workers Author: Tribal STAR Date:...
