Sep 15, 2020 | Latest News
(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 | Latest News
(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 | Latest News
(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 | Latest News
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 | Latest News
(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...
Jan 22, 2020 | Latest News
(NEW ORLEANS, January 22, 2020)—Following today’s United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals oral arguments in the Brackeen v. Bernhardt case, the Protect ICWA Campaign, consisting of the National Indian Child Welfare Association, the National Congress of American...
