Sep 15, 2020 | Child Welfare
(PORTLAND, Ore. September 15, 2020)—The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) heartily thanks the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) for their generous grant of $700,000 over three years to support a pilot evaluation study of Positive Indian Parenting...
Aug 28, 2020 | Child Welfare
(Portland, OR, August 27, 2020)—Today we applaud the broad coalition of tribal nations and foster and LGBTQ+ youth organizations who filed a lawsuit challenging the 2020 Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) Final Rule. The 2020 Rule rolled...
Aug 20, 2020 | Child Welfare
(Portland, Ore., August 20, 2020)—As part of The Pokémon Company group’s donation to charitable nonprofit organizations around the world that improve the lives of children, the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) received a gift from the group to support...
Jul 22, 2020 | Child Welfare
American Indian and Alaska Native Children More Likely to Live in Grandfamilies and Face Heightened Challenges with Limited Supports New tool elevates cultural strengths and helps organizations better support families (Washington, DC)—Compared to all other racial or...
Jun 11, 2020 | Child Welfare
(PORTLAND, Ore. June 11, 2020)—The National Indian Child Welfare Association announced its official endorsement for S.3923, the Emergency Family Stabilization Act, which would help families, youth, and children faced with homelessness in the wake of the COVID-19...
May 14, 2019 | Child Welfare
(GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, May 14, 2019)–Today a coalition of tribes, organizations, and independent researchers will go before the United Nations to testify about American Indian and Alaskan Native Children who went Missing under the United States’ Indian Boarding School...
