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.
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