This document summarizes a presentation on improving compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). Research found that Native American children are disproportionately represented in foster care in California. Notifying tribes, as required by ICWA, is currently inadequate. The presentation introduces a new automated tribal notification system called Ayazuta and advocates for a community-based design approach to analyze each state's unique barriers and successes. Improving tribal notification and increasing tribal involvement can help address isolation of Native youth in care and enhance health outcomes. Participants are encouraged to support compliance efforts through advocacy and providing feedback.
Il program director's training no multimediaJason Wheeler
Powerpoint slides from the disability inclusion training held in Springfield, IL on April 21, 2011.
It was great to work with all of you! If you have any questions, please email me at erin.gannon@umb.edu.
Best,
Erin
2021 Training of Ohio Financial Aid AdministratorsLisa Dickson
This training for Ohio Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators was attended by financial aid administrators from all over the state, and facilitated by Tina Jacob of Ohio Reach, Lisa Dickson of ACTION Ohio, and Ohio Reach Peer Mentors Kyajah Rodriguez, Cloe Cooper, Amadea Jennings and Lamar Graham.
Seba Alwayel517 Catawba circle Columbia, SC 29201 · 8032372950.docxrtodd280
Seba Alwayel
517 Catawba circle Columbia, SC 29201 · 8032372950
Sebaalwayel.gmail.com · personal summary
Organized registration information, product warranties, end user agreements, program user codes, and other data essential to effective software acquisitions, resource distribution, and asset utilization.
Keeping to inform future software acquisitions, resource distribution, and asset utilization. Trusted IT team member articulated technology forecasts to company directors.
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O R I G I N A L P A P E R
A Transitional Living Program for Homeless
Adolescents: A Case Study
Elissa D. Giffords Æ Christina Alonso Æ Richard Bell
Published online: 7 July 2007
� Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007
Abstract Under the Runaway, Homeless, and Missing Children Protection Act in (P.L.
108-96), Congress authorized the Transitional Living Program for Older Homeless Youth
(TLP). TLP provides grants to community and faith-based non-profit and public organi-
zations for longer-term residential supports (up to 18 months) to youth ages 16–21 in order
to promote their successful transition to adulthood and self-sufficiency (National Network
for Youth, Issue brief: Runaway and homeless youth act reauthorization [Available online
at http://www.nn4youth.org/site/DocServer/NNYandVOAFinalUpdate.pdf?docID=304],
2007). This article describes a transitional living program in Long Island, New York
designed to enable youth in a residential setting (ages 16–21) to develop and internalize
independent living skills through the provision of shelter and support services which
prepare them for living independently in the community.
Keywords Independent living � Foster care � Self-sufficiency � Adolescent youth �
Homeless � Runaway
E. D. Giffords (&)
Social Work Department, Long Island University, CW Post Campus, Northern Blvd, Brookville, NY
11548, USA
e-mail: [email protected]
C. Alonso � R. Bell
Family and Children’s Association, 100 East Old Country Road, Mineola, NY 11501, USA
C. Alonso
e-mail: [email protected]
R. Bell
e-mail: RBel[email protected]
123
Child Youth Care Forum (2007) 36:141–151
DOI 10.1007/s10566-007-9036-0
Introduction
In the 1980s the number of Independent living programs to assist formerly homeless
adolescents and foster youth to develop the skills they need to sustain themselves in the
community increased significantly nationwide (for, e.g., see Brickman et al. 1991; Kroner
1988; Lindsey and Ahmed 1999). Many of these programs received their funding from.
Supporting Abused and Neglected Children Through Early Care and PolicyHealthy City
Title: Supporting abused and neglected children through early care and policy
This webinar will make the case for supporting abused and neglected children through early care opportunities as well as describe how to use the healthycity.org site to research and identify policy solutions around foster youth and early childhood education issues.
Learning objectives:
1) Strengthen one’s understanding of populations that make up abused and neglected children
2) Learn how to identify data around abused and neglected children on healthycity.org
3) Understand policy opportunities to improve conditions for the youngest abused and neglected children
Il program director's training no multimediaJason Wheeler
Powerpoint slides from the disability inclusion training held in Springfield, IL on April 21, 2011.
It was great to work with all of you! If you have any questions, please email me at erin.gannon@umb.edu.
Best,
Erin
2021 Training of Ohio Financial Aid AdministratorsLisa Dickson
This training for Ohio Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators was attended by financial aid administrators from all over the state, and facilitated by Tina Jacob of Ohio Reach, Lisa Dickson of ACTION Ohio, and Ohio Reach Peer Mentors Kyajah Rodriguez, Cloe Cooper, Amadea Jennings and Lamar Graham.
Seba Alwayel517 Catawba circle Columbia, SC 29201 · 8032372950.docxrtodd280
Seba Alwayel
517 Catawba circle Columbia, SC 29201 · 8032372950
Sebaalwayel.gmail.com · personal summary
Organized registration information, product warranties, end user agreements, program user codes, and other data essential to effective software acquisitions, resource distribution, and asset utilization.
Keeping to inform future software acquisitions, resource distribution, and asset utilization. Trusted IT team member articulated technology forecasts to company directors.
Experience01-01-2014 to 11-12-2014
STC company in Dammam, Saudi Arabia
-translator
- answerd customar quations related to proudacts, servises or their specific account.
- translate conversations from English to Arbic.
Education
Bachler’s degree in Information technology “IT” major
University of south Carolina.
Graduation date” 09-05-2020
Skills
Speak two languages.
Good communication skills.
Good at persuasion.
Good leader.
Good in bargaining.
Nice behaviors.
2
O R I G I N A L P A P E R
A Transitional Living Program for Homeless
Adolescents: A Case Study
Elissa D. Giffords Æ Christina Alonso Æ Richard Bell
Published online: 7 July 2007
� Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007
Abstract Under the Runaway, Homeless, and Missing Children Protection Act in (P.L.
108-96), Congress authorized the Transitional Living Program for Older Homeless Youth
(TLP). TLP provides grants to community and faith-based non-profit and public organi-
zations for longer-term residential supports (up to 18 months) to youth ages 16–21 in order
to promote their successful transition to adulthood and self-sufficiency (National Network
for Youth, Issue brief: Runaway and homeless youth act reauthorization [Available online
at http://www.nn4youth.org/site/DocServer/NNYandVOAFinalUpdate.pdf?docID=304],
2007). This article describes a transitional living program in Long Island, New York
designed to enable youth in a residential setting (ages 16–21) to develop and internalize
independent living skills through the provision of shelter and support services which
prepare them for living independently in the community.
Keywords Independent living � Foster care � Self-sufficiency � Adolescent youth �
Homeless � Runaway
E. D. Giffords (&)
Social Work Department, Long Island University, CW Post Campus, Northern Blvd, Brookville, NY
11548, USA
e-mail: [email protected]
C. Alonso � R. Bell
Family and Children’s Association, 100 East Old Country Road, Mineola, NY 11501, USA
C. Alonso
e-mail: [email protected]
R. Bell
e-mail: RBel[email protected]
123
Child Youth Care Forum (2007) 36:141–151
DOI 10.1007/s10566-007-9036-0
Introduction
In the 1980s the number of Independent living programs to assist formerly homeless
adolescents and foster youth to develop the skills they need to sustain themselves in the
community increased significantly nationwide (for, e.g., see Brickman et al. 1991; Kroner
1988; Lindsey and Ahmed 1999). Many of these programs received their funding from.
Supporting Abused and Neglected Children Through Early Care and PolicyHealthy City
Title: Supporting abused and neglected children through early care and policy
This webinar will make the case for supporting abused and neglected children through early care opportunities as well as describe how to use the healthycity.org site to research and identify policy solutions around foster youth and early childhood education issues.
Learning objectives:
1) Strengthen one’s understanding of populations that make up abused and neglected children
2) Learn how to identify data around abused and neglected children on healthycity.org
3) Understand policy opportunities to improve conditions for the youngest abused and neglected children
Child welfare and social changeFoster children who depend on soc.docxbissacr
Child welfare and social change
Foster children who depend on society's largess for their very existence, go largely unseen. Thus, I am terribly concerned we continue to fail the children who are abused, neglected and just plain unwanted. With them being just minor children, they are unable to fund political campaigns, lobby any elected representatives for an opportunity to be heard or even to organize marches to advocate for better services. They have no voice if we do not speak for them. As a future human and social service professional, child welfare is considered to be a social justice issue as the rates of children being at risk is continually rising especially when you have certain children from birth more advantage compared to others. Thus, the Annie E. Casey Foundation a private state organization based in Baltimore and has reached across the country has helped many federal agencies, states, counties, cities, and neighborhoods create more innovative, cost-effective responses to the issues that negatively affect children such as poverty, unnecessary disconnections from family and even due to communities with limited access to opportunity.
I have chosen the Annie E. Casey Foundation to focus on my Capstone Project because for over many decades this foundation has been able to advance the child welfare field’s understanding of neuroscience and brain research in order to encourage implementation of more effective programs and policies. In eliminating the issues of child welfare, this foundation has helped many young people in foster care transition in and from foster care through practice, policy and evaluation tools that seek to improve their opportunities and assets as well as help to build their personal and financial assets by engaging them in self-advocacy and leadership opportunities.
My strategic plan will be developed from the perspective of social change in order to find the balance between our joint responsibilities as a society and our responsibilities as individuals to contribute to a just society. The victimization of kids in many states in foster care in this country is an outrage, but these systems can and must operate humanely and comply with children’s constitutional and human rights. It’s very clear that a lot of more strategies and linkages across sectors are needed to end child abuse and violence against children.
Reference
Child Welfare Strategy Group. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.aecf.org/work/child-welfare/child-welfare-strategy-group//
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1. Improving ICWA Compliance: Technology and Community Driven Design 28th Annual NICWA Conference Portland, OR April 12, 2010 Indian Dispute Resolution Services, Inc. 2010
2. Introductions Heather Zenone, Indian Child Welfare Director, IDRS Inc., (formerly Indian Dispute Resolution Services). Kevin Hughes, Principle H7 Interactive and Ayazuta.com
3. Roadmap Current Data and Research Goal:Not One Indian Child Without Strong Tribal Protection Change: Putting Indian Children First How: “scripting” Tribal Notice Procedures Why ICWA Tribal Notice? Intro to Community-based design Ayazuta: Automated Tribal Notice YOU Can Improve ICWA Compliance
4. Research Background IDRS 3-year research on the health services available to transition-age Indian foster youth in California Quantitative assessment using state data Qualitative interviews with Service Providers and Indian TAY.
5. FACTS Representation of Indian children in CA foster care has increased since 1998; even as Black and White representation have declined.
6. FACTS Native children are in CA foster care at 2.8 times their representation in CA population. Disparity more than double since 1998 (1.029)
7. FACTS More than 60% of Indian children in CA foster care are in placements that do NOT meet ICWA’s placement preferences.
8. Service Provider Feedback Data: The state data under-reports Indian child data. “active efforts”: Positive Indian identity is core of mental health for Indian kids. ICWA requirement of culturally appropriate services key to mental health needs of Indian foster kids. Few services specifically for Indian foster youth. Existing services are not well-coordinated.
9. Why State Data is inaccurate Inadequate Training Identification Notice Inadequate inquiry and information to establish the child's tribal membership or eligibility No tracking of youth between dependency and delinquency systems.
10. Service Provider View of “active efforts” Indian Youth Protective Factors: University of Portland (2009) http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/pgProj_6practice.shtml
11. Conclusion The conditions do not currently exist in California for compliance with the ICWA. Conditions include: Training Communication Data (state and tribal) Coordination of services
12. Youth Perspective Placement: Indian youth protest about being placed in non-Indian homes. Perceive being treated poorly because they are Indian. Family: lack of contact with siblings and cousins Education: More likely to know about Chafee funding if they participate in ILP but learn about funding too late. Longest relationships with friends, then ICWA SW (tribal/FFA), ILP SW. CASA.
13. Implications of Youth Data Indian foster youth who feel isolated poor identity enhanced risk for poor health outcomes. Feelings of isolation in Indian TAY may be related to limited connections to family, tribe, and Indian community. Compliance with ICWA is important as a process by which the state may establish, foster, and increase tribal and community connections and therefore enhance protective health factors for Indian TAY in CA.
14. Poor ICWA compliance contributes to: Ignorance about the size , scope, costs of disproportionate representation of Indian children and the impact on Indian communities. Isolation of Indian foster children from family, tribe, and Indian communities Poor Indian child health Poor Community health.
15. GOAL Not One Indian Child Without Strong Tribal Protection Standard: Zero tolerance.
16. The Change Put Indian Children At The Center The state way of fostering children is not an Indian way of caring for vulnerable children. This is one reason why we fought for ICWA in the first place. Children and elders are often traditionally the center of the community, the circle, the grounds, or of the house.
17. How? By changing specific behavior that takes attention away from our children. Scripting Tribal Notice “scripting” is step-by-step of what to do What?
18. Why scripting works: Reduces ambiguity, builds predictability for tribes and states Streamlines processes = faster = more time to identify and meet the needs of Indian children.
19. Why Tribal Notice? Notice is currently at the center of the process 8 hours/notice/hearing Assembling SW’s court reports Appeals based on inadequate or failure to Notice Impact Beginning of State/Tribal communication By automating what is now at the center, SW’s, courts, and Tribes are freed to focus on the best interests of Indian children.
20. How Do We Know? IDRS Research Two major barriers to providing for the health needs of Indian TAY: Service Providers: lack of coordination between state, tribes, and service providers Indian TAY: isolation = not child-centered
21. What IS working? Service Providers: Where counties and tribes communicate well (proximity, stability) the system works better than where communication was limited or adversarial Quantitative data and Indian TAY pointed us to successful Tribal SWs (FFA, TTANF) who put children at the center (Auntie model) AND youth and families have more success.
22. How Can We Help Tribal SW’s? “more hours in the day” or “more money for more staff” = save time. Save time by automating paperwork processes Clone Tribal SW’s AND we can give Tribal SW’s something they often don’t have: easy access to data to report needs and success to funders.
23. Community-Based Design OR “Cloning Tribal SW’s” OR “Solving the ‘We’re NOT CA’ Problem” No state is like CA. Not even CA. Every state has “bright spots” (communication, statistics, outcomes) Every state has barriers and needs.
24. Community-based Design IS: Training TOGETHER: cross-cultural communication skills AND substantive ICWA. Repeating the primary analysis TOGETHER in your context Barriers/Needs? What’s working and why? Help needed and why it works? How to replicate?
26. I Can Help Improve ICWA Compliance: Become a facebook fan of California Indian Child Welfare Association OR read/comment on our blog: http://calicwa.wordpress.com Join our listserve: Heatherz@indiandispute.com Ayazuta Newsletter/Twitter: kevin@h7i.com Use the Tribal Contacts database: http://ayazuta.com Tell Social Services department, state, BIA Regional Officer about the Tribal Contacts database Link to the Tribal Contacts database, Ayazuta, and the California Indian Child Welfare Assoc. Web demo of Ayazuta Letter of Support Contact us with a) compliance efforts and b) compliance success
27. Indian Foster Youth Academy In California 5-day training in negotiation, presentation, policy advocacy. Design own policy agenda Travel to 2 advocacy sites to present policy ideas When: July 11-17, 2010 Where: Sacramento, CA More information: Heatherz@indiandispute.com
28. Thank You! National Indian Child Welfare Association National Institutes of Health California Wellness Foundation The California Endowment UCSF Medical School, Pediatrics Dpt. Indian TAY and ICWA Professionals
29. Contact Us! Heather Zenone, Indian Child Welfare Director 916-482-5800 heatherz@indiandispute.com Kevin Hughes, H7 Interactive, Ayazuta.com Kevin@h7i.com
Editor's Notes
Heather Zenone (Cherokee), 2nd generation California foster youth current Indian Child Welfare Director at IDRS Inc., working to help Native youth get a better start on adulthood than she received 20 years ago.
Funding: National Institutes of Health, California Endowment, California WellnessResearch Design Partner: UCSF Medical School, Pediatrics Dpt.Human Subjects Training & Approval: UCSF Medical School
For every thousand kids in a demographic group in the state population, this is the number of them who are in CA foster care. One reason for the increase is that more Indian children may be being identified as Indian than have been in the past. Nevertheless, the disparity is growing while other populations are shrinking.
Disparity (DM) = % of demographic in Foster care divided by # kids of that demographicin state population.
ICWA Compliant: 36% are placed with relatives; 2.6% are placed in non-relative Indian homes.Non-Compliant: 7.9% are in group homes; 7.3% are in some other placement; 25.6% of are placed in non-relative, non-Indian homes; in 20.6% of cases the ethnicity of the adults in the out of home placement is not known.
Two Focus groups of ICWA service providers from each geographic region.Service Provider: any tribal, county, non-profit entity that serves Indian kids.Regions: Humboldt, SFBay, San Diego N=30
Based on Focus Group information.
Barbara J. Friesen, Ph.D., Co-Principal InvestigatorTerry Cross, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., A.C.S.W., Co-Principal Investigator
Transition-age Indian foster youth and former foster youth from each geographic region were either interviewed separately or in group settings. We are not done collecting or analyzing this data.
“poor health outcomes”: suicide, addiction, homelessness, violence, criminality/victim, unplanned pregnancy etc.
Anything short of zero tolerance and we’ll have to explain which Indian kids it’s OK to leave unprotected and unconnected.
Improving ICWA Tribal Notice won’t solve all the problems of Indian foster children, but a small change can make a significant impact.In “differential response” counties, Notice may not be the first County/Tribal communication; often service providers (TTANF, FFA’s, Tribal SW’s) are the first cont act, but accurate Tribal Contact and “active efforts” service information is required.
Re: “cloning”take advantage of their expertise by digitally copying the way they do their work and building that into the system.