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Join the National Indian Child Welfare Association and the Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network to explore how states and Tribes can work together to best support relative caregivers and families.
The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) created this resource as a tip sheet for service providers to share with relatives/kin caring for Native children.
This resource is intended as an overview of the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe Kinship Parenting Program.
If you are a Native parent or relative caregiver of a child who was removed from their parents by a state child welfare system, this resource prepared by the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) is for you.
This guidebook discusses several important considerations and suggests a process through which tribes can develop locally appropriate standards.
The National Indian Child Welfare Association developed this resource as a tip sheet that tribal service providers can give to people who are seeking to become a caregiver for a minor relative child or seeking to provide support to and/or advocate for a minor relative child in an out-of-home placement.
This toolkit, developed by our partners at the National Indian Child Welfare Association, has two parts. Part one examines several issues that tribal child welfare programs might want to consider in drafting policies and procedures with regard to the engagement of extended families in services and the support of relatives/kin who step into parenting roles, whether inside or outside of the formal child welfare system. Part two provides policy guidance and sample trauma-informed language to support the development of tribally specific child welfare policy to address the identified issues outlined in part one.
Kin/grandfamily caregivers’ ideas about their roles in protecting and providing for the children in their care depend on their families’ values and cultures.
The Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network's partner, the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA), hosted a webinar on March 21, 2023, where a panel discussion was framed with the relational worldview model, an Indigenous model that looks at well-being as a balance between the four quadrants—environment, mind, body, and spirit.
The Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network hosted a webinar on May 10, 2023 with Dr. Terry Cross, where he provided a brief review of collaboration: what it is, why to collaborate, and how it can be successfully accomplished.
