{"id":7935,"date":"2022-04-11T22:29:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T22:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/ffsa-overlooks-tribal-child-welfare-programs\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T04:30:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T04:30:10","slug":"ffsa-overlooks-tribal-child-welfare-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/ffsa-overlooks-tribal-child-welfare-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"FFSA Overlooks Tribal Child Welfare Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Imprint\u2019s<\/em> article, \u201cPath to Federal Foster Care Prevention Funds Overlooks Tribal Programs, Experts Say,\u201d highlights the inequalities that face Indigenous communities regarding the child welfare system. Indigenous communities have supported and healed their children and families using their own \u201cIndigenous theoretical framework.\u201d This \u201cframework\u201d acknowledges the impact of historical trauma, honors cultural values and focuses on \u201cthe sacredness of the inner spirit.\u201d However, due to unjust measures that favor rigorous, Western scientific standards, Tribal programs cannot obtain federal funding; as their child welfare systems have yet to be measured by statistical models and cannot meet the requirements.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Family First Prevention Services Act (FFSA), signed into law in 2018, requires the federal government to provide matching grants for states to pay for foster care prevention. The government has contributed $88 million so far. Nonetheless, a national research clearinghouse must first approve of the programs that receive the money, making it difficult to get approval for federal matching funds. Since the law\u2019s adoption, only one clearinghouse has approved a Native American model. As a result, the millions of dollars available to Tribes meant to help keep families intact are practically inaccessible. Therefore, foster care prevention programs that best serve these communities cannot meet the costly standards defined by the historically white establishments.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Native American children are disproportionately likely to be affected by the foster care system. Historical injustice contributes to modern inequities. Indigenous communities must have the ability to access quality prevention services. Family Spirit is one program close to achieving clearinghouse approval. The program, designed by and for Native American families, is an evidence-based, home-visiting program for new and expecting mothers and has \u201cdemonstrated a favorable effect on a target outcome.\u201d An article published by our Research on Social Work Practice journal furthermore challenges other academics who \u201ccharacterize \u2018standard Western measures and methods\u2019 as producing the only \u2018legitimate evidence.\u2019\u201d To learn more about the injustices facing Tribal child welfare programs, see <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imprint article discusses the inequities faced by Tribal communities and Clearinghouse reform<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,30,31,44],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12667,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7935\/revisions\/12667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}