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Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in 1978 to protect the best interests of Indian children and promote the stability of families and Tribes by setting minimum standards for state child custody proceedings involving an Indian child.
Supporting American Indian and Alaska Native (Native) children, relative caregivers, and families requires first understanding traditional ways of child-rearing, teaching, and learning among Indigenous communities and the impacts of historical trauma.
This tip sheet provides AAAs and Title VI programs with ideas for initiating community partnerships to support kinship/grandfamilies.
Historically, Title IV-E of the Social Security Act has provided entitlement funds for foster care, adoption assistance, and relative guardianship payments and grant funds for services for children aging out of foster care.
The purpose of this webinar is to help Tribes who operate kinship support service programs, including kinship navigation programs, know about and understand how they can prepare to take advantage of new resources afforded under the Supporting America's Children and Families Act.
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.
