Cultural considerations should be integrated into the daily operations and protocol development of the CAC. The CAC should review and implement policies and procedures for services to families throughout the life of the case. CACs should conduct a community assessment, at a minimum every three years, of the demographics of your community in order to identify un-served or under-served populations.
Cultural Competence
- Child Welfare Information Gateway, Cultural Competence: Child Abuse & Neglect
- Community Assessment Template
- Cultural Competence: Child Abuse & Neglect
- NASW Standards & Indicators for Cultural Competence in Social Work Practice
- NRCAC Guidelines for Working with Interpreters
- The CAC Accessibility Toolkit
NCAC’s Online Training
- Cultural Competency: Plays Well with Others
- Collaboration, Consistency and Cultural Competency
- Memories Hold Hands: Understanding Historical Trauma and Unresolved Historical Grief in American Indian/Alaska Native Communities
LGBTQ Youth
Native American and Alaskan Native MDTs/CACs
- 2020 NCA Tribal Coverage Map
- Active Efforts: Public Child Welfare ICWA Best Practices
- American Indian/Alaska Natives Curriculum Content Evaluation Guide
- DOJ Hearing: We are Failing the Children of Indian Country
- Indian Child Welfare Act
- Indian Child Welfare Judicial Benchbook
- Indian County Criminal Jurisdictional Chart
- Indian Child Welfare Timeline
- Listen and Learn: A Process for Initiating Collaboration between Tribal Communities and Children’s Advocacy Centers. Huntsville, AL: Southern Regional Children’s Advocacy Center
- National Native Children’s Trauma Center
- Native American Children’s Alliance
- OJJDP Tribal Youth Program
- The Indian Country Child Trauma Center
- Tribal Information Exchange
- Tribal Sovereignty in Practice: The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act
- Webinar: Developing Effective Multi Disciplinary Teams for Tribal Communities
- Webinar: Learning, Leading, Changing: Collaborating to Enhance ICWA Knowledge and Practice