March 2009Vol. 10, No. 2Resources on Tribal Child Welfare From the T&TA Network
The Children's Bureau’s Training and Technical Assistance (T&TA) Network members work with States and Tribes on issues that impact Native Alaskan and Indian children and families. In providing T&TA, they have developed a number of resources now available on their websites, including the following:
- The National Child Welfare Resource Center (NRC) for Organizational Improvement offers several resources.
- "State-Tribal Partnerships" (part of the NRC's Child and Family Services Review package; scroll down to "State-Tribal Partnerships" for all the components):
http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/helpkids/cfsr_trainingdetail.htm
- Approaches to Collaboration: State-Tribal Partnerships:
http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/helpkids/rcpdfs/tribal.pdf (194 KB)
- "State-Tribal Partnerships" (part of the NRC's Child and Family Services Review package; scroll down to "State-Tribal Partnerships" for all the components):
- The NRC for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning provides an extensive list of links to documents, websites, teleconferences, and more, including resources that describe State programs:
www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/info_services/indian-child-welfare.html - The NRC for Youth Development offers resources on youth development and transition, including resources on Tribal issues.
- Tribal Approaches to Transition (monograph):
www.nrcyd.ou.edu/publication-db/documents/tribal-approaches-to-transition.pdf (633 KB) - List of the NRC's Tribal pages, with resources and links:
www.nrcyd.ou.edu/tribal-pages - A Native Pathway to Adulthood: Training for Tribal and Non-Tribal Child Welfare Workers:
www.nrcys.ou.edu/yd/programs/ilcurriculums/downloads/nptapmweb.pdf (1,773 KB)
- Tribal Approaches to Transition (monograph):
- Child Welfare Information Gateway links to a number of resources on Tribal child welfare.
- Site visits to Children's Bureau-funded Tribal and Migrant Programs for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention programs:
www.childwelfare.gov/management/funding/funding_sources/tribal.cfm - Issue brief, Tribal-State Relations:
www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/issue_briefs/tribal_state/index.cfm - Training on American Indian issues:
www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/cultural/training.cfm - Resources on working with Indian families:
www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/cultural/families/indian.cfm
- Site visits to Children's Bureau-funded Tribal and Migrant Programs for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention programs:
- The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health offers a PowerPoint presentation, "Expanding Partnerships in Systems of Care: Building and Sustaining Tribal Capacity":
www.tapartnership.org/COP/CLC/presentations.php?id=topic7