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Wisconsin ICWA: best outcomes? #flipthescript #adoptees #lostbirds
By Trace
This always gets me: "improve outcomes" or "best outcomes." What does that mean - that First Nations and American Indian children who are put into a non-Indian home, who lose language, culture, contact with their elders, do they mean improve that? How? Do academics and social workers embrace an adoptee's tremendous loss of culture and contact? Do they work for family preservation and eradicate poverty that still plagues many reservations? Hardly.
The best outcome: a child is never taken from their first parents and their tribes. Period.
by Matthew L.M. Fletcher on Turtle Talk
Loa
Porter (Department of Children and Families, State of Wisconsin),
Patina Park Zink, Angela R. Gebhardt (University of Nebraska at Lincoln -
Center on Children, Families, and the Law), Mark Ells (University of
Nebraska-Lincoln), and Michelle I. Graef, Ph.D. (University of Nebraska
at Lincoln - Center on Children, Families, and the Law) have posted "Best Outcomes for Indian Children" on SSRN. It was previously published in Child Welfare.
Here is the abstract:
The
Wisconsin Department of Children and Families and the Midwest Child
Welfare Implementation Center are collaborating with Wisconsin’s tribes
and county child welfare agencies to improve outcomes for Indian
children by systemically implementing the Wisconsin Indian Child Welfare
Act (WICWA). This groundbreaking collaboration will increase
practitioners’ understanding of the requirements of WICWA and the need
for those requirements, enhance communication and coordination between
all stakeholders responsible for the welfare of Indian children in
Wisconsin; it is designed to effect the systemic integration of the
philosophical underpinnings of WICWA.
Survivors, write your stories. Write your parents stories. Write the elders stories. Do not be swayed by the colonizers to keep quiet. Tribal Nations have their own way of keeping stories alive.... Trace
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| Indian Country is under attack. Native tribes and people are fighting hard for justice. There is need for legal assistance across Indian Country, and NARF is doing as much as we can. With your help, we have fought for 48 years and we continue to fight.
It is hard to understand the extent of the attacks on Indian Country. We are sending a short series of emails this month with a few examples of attacks that are happening across Indian Country and how we are standing firm for justice.
Today, we look at recent effort to undo laws put in place to protect Native American children and families. All children deserve to be raised by loving families and communities. In the 1970s, Congress realized that state agencies and courts were disproportionately removing American Indian and Alaska Native children from their families. Often these devastating removals were due to an inability or unwillingness to understand Native cultures, where family is defined broadly and raising children is a shared responsibility. To stop these destructive practices, Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).
After forty years, ICWA has proven to be largely successful and many states have passed their own ICWAs. This success, however, is now being challenged by large, well-financed opponents who are actively and aggressively seeking to undermine ICWA’s protections for Native children. We are seeing lawsuits across the United States that challenge ICWA’s protections. NARF is working with partners to defend the rights of Native children and families.
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ADOPTION TRUTH
As the single largest unregulated industry in the United States, adoption is viewed as a benevolent action that results in the formation of “forever families.”
The truth is that it is a very lucrative business with a known sales pitch. With profits last estimated at over $1.44 billion dollars a year, mothers who consider adoption for their babies need to be very aware that all of this promotion clouds the facts and only though independent research can they get an accurate account of what life might be like for both them and their child after signing the adoption paperwork.
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