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 Imprint highlighted each of the policy recommendations made this summer by the participants of the Foster Youth Internship Program, a group of seven young people that experienced foster care and have completed congressional internships.
DOJ Freezes Funding for National Child Advocates Group - The …
The stepped-up oversight has resulted in staff furloughs at the 39-year-old National CASA/GAL Association for Children, which sets standards for volunteers matched with hundreds of thousands of children in family courts across the country.
California’s Notorious Youth Prisons Shut Down Today - The Imprint
Jun 30, 2023 · A packed dorm at the Fred C. Nelles Correctional Facility in the 1990s, an era when California’s youth prisons held roughly 10,000 teens and adolescents.
How Four Women on White Earth Beat Opioid Addiction
Nov 20, 2024 · ‘I help others now’: A Native mother reflects on overcoming the shame of addiction.. Her kids are now school age, but A.B., who requested to be identified by her initials only, says specific memories from their early childhood still haunt her. A.B. wears a red, black and gray ribbon skirt, flip-flops, a red Under Armour T-shirt, her hair in a sleek high bun.
After the Tragic Death of an LGBTQ Youth, Few Answers for His …
Oct 1, 2019 · The family of a 19-year-old transgender foster youth who recently committed suicide said Los Angeles child welfare officials repeatedly ignored their pleas for mental health services and placement with a relative.. Andrew Martinez died on Sept. 4 by suicide, according to Los Angeles County officials. Authorities with Union Pacific Railroad said a male pedestrian was struck by a train one ...
Civil Rights Complaint Alleges Minnesota's Child Welfare System ...
The national groups are representing the Minneapolis NAACP, which has been outspoken on one recent child welfare case involving a Black family, detailed in The Imprint’s 2023 “Fighting for Kin” series. “Black children and families have long endured suffering at the hands of Minnesota’s child welfare system,” Cynthia Wilson, Minneapolis NAACP branch president, stated in a press release.
Texas 'Miranda' bill would require CPS to tell parents their rights
A bill filed by state Rep. James Frank (R), aims to increase due-process protections for parents involved in CPS cases. Frank, chair of the Texas House Human Services Committee, which oversees the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services, said he wants to cut down on children being unnecessarily placed in an overburdened foster care system already under fire …
ICWA Expert Unpacks the Historic Brackeen v. Haaland Decision
Jun 21, 2023 · Supporters of ICWA in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022. Photo by Rosemary Stephens. Shannon Smith has been an attorney handling Indian Child Welfare Act cases for decades, fighting for the rights of Indigenous children, their families and tribes.
Northern California Siblings Receive Foster Care Abuse Trial Award ...
Dec 7, 2023 · A jury in Northern California has awarded nearly $25 million to three siblings who were sexually abused by a foster parent, compensation that attorneys for the children describe as some measure of accountability for the assaults they suffered.