First-ever Oral Histories of Indian Boarding School Survivors
Oct 11, 2024 · The first-of-its-kind oral history project, underway since March, receives and archives these memories. Three historians and a team of an additional 10 to 12 people have so far visited Indigenous communities in Oklahoma, Alaska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana and Michigan, and will continue their work through 2026.
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The Foster Care System’s Suppression of My Oppression. The foster care system must do more than just move youth from one place to the next, writes Jahnay Butler. The Imprint is an independent, nonprofit daily news publication dedicated to covering child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health and educational issues faced by vulnerable ...
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Imprint Newsletters. Sign up for newsletters from The Imprint to stay up to date on child welfare and juvenile justice news. Receive a discount code for Youth Services Insider when you sign up. The Imprint is an independent, nonprofit daily news publication dedicated to covering child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health and educational ...
Northern California Siblings Receive Foster Care Abuse ...
Dec 7, 2023 · For exclusive Youth Services Insider content. Your support allows The Imprint to provide independent, nonpartisan daily news covering the issues faced by vulnerable children and families. Donate Subscribe. A jury in Northern California has awarded nearly $25 million to siblings who were abused by a foster parent.
The Nation’s First Family Separation Policy - The Imprint
Oct 9, 2018 · In the late 1960s, while employed by the Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA), a New York-based attorney named Bertram Hirsch was sent to North Dakota to assist with a kinship dispute case on behalf of the Spirit Lake Tribe. Child welfare workers were forcibly removing children from family members and placing them in white homes, sometimes out of state.
It’s Time to Stop Confusing Poverty With Neglect - The Imprint
Jan 17, 2020 · Yet, as a field, we seem quite comfortable with very small, incremental improvements and minor tweaks to the way we operate — tweaks that often benefit the operators more than those living the experience; tweaks that may not result in noticeable improvements in the way children, youth and parents experience the system at all; and tweaks that are not likely to mitigate the need to enter the ...
How An Indigenous Attorney In Minnesota Keeps Trying to ...
Mar 7, 2024 · How An Indigenous Attorney In Minnesota Keeps Trying to Overturn the Indian Child Welfare Act. Social workers, legal scholars, and Indigenous rights advocates have long described the Indian Child Welfare Act as the “gold standard” for handling foster care cases. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Inside Mandated Reporting Reform in Los Angeles County - The …
Jul 20, 2023 · For exclusive Youth Services Insider content. Your support allows The Imprint to provide independent, nonpartisan daily news covering the issues faced by vulnerable children and families. Tamara Hunter, director of L.A. County’s Commission for Children and Families, talks about what the data shows and next steps for reform.
DOJ Freezes Funding for National Child Advocates Group - The …
For exclusive Youth Services Insider content. Your support allows The Imprint to provide independent, nonpartisan daily news covering the issues faced by vulnerable children and families. Donate or Subscribe. The stepped-up oversight has resulted in staff furloughs at the 39-year-old National CASA/GAL Association for Children.
Washington's Years-old Foster Care Lawsuit Settled - The Imprint
The lawsuit was initiated by Bill Grimm, the late longtime attorney with the National Center for Youth Law whose litigation and legislative advocacy forced change in child welfare systems across the country.. Over the course of the 24 years since the case was filed, the lawsuit and its subsequent settlement requirements led to numerous …