This interactive online learning tool is designed to help tribal child welfare professionals consider how to use data to inform service delivery to children and families and help their communities thrive. Resource Link: Data Overview: Using Data to Help Our...
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:...
This film tells the story of Fred Martinez, a TwoSpirit person who was victim of a brutal hate crime and murdered at the age of 16. Weaving stories of tradition, history, and hope from Native American cultures, Two Spirits and companion films can be previewed on PBS...
NICWA developed this 2013 newsletter as part of their Honoring Innovations Report series designed to offer best practice ideas for system of care communities. Resource Link: Standards of Care For Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex, and...
What it means to be Two-Spirit, various definitions, tips on how to be a good ally, and potential challenges and barriers that may be experienced by those who identify as Two-Spirit or Native LGBTQ are included within this educational guide. (Please seek printing...
