Special
Issue – Services for Native Children and Families in North America
Table of Contents:
From the Editor:
Remembering Lost Bird
We Are the
Manifestations of Our Ancestors’ Prayers
Special Foreword by Terry Cross and Cindy
Blackstock
Truth, Healing, and
Systems Change: The Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation
Commission Process
Esther Altvater Attean, Panthea Burns, Martha
Proulx, Jamie Bissonette-Lewey, Jill Williams, and Kathy Deserly
Moving Toward
Reconciliation in Indigenous Child Welfare
Andrea Auger
Findings from a
National Needs Assessment of American Indian/Alaska Native Child Welfare Programs
Robin Leake, Cathryn Potter, Nancy Lucero,
Jerry Gardner, and Kathy Deserly
Continuum of Readiness
for Collaboration, ICWA Compliance, and Reducing Disproportionality
Tom Lidot, Rose-Margaret Orrantia, and Miryam
Choca
A Collaborative and
Trauma-Informed Practice Model for Urban Indian Child Welfare
Nancy M. Lucero and
Marian Bussey
Family Group Decision
Making (FGDM) With Lakota Families in Two Tribal Communities: Tools to
Facilitate FGDM Implementation and Evaluation
Lyscha A. Marcynyszyn, Pete Small Bear, Erin
Geary, Russ Conti, Peter J. Pecora, Priscilla A. Day, and Stephen T. Wilson
Best Outcomes for
Indian Children
Loa L. Porter, Patrina Park Zink, Angela R.
Gebhardt, Mark Ells, and Michelle I. Graef
Native American Indian
Child Welfare System Change: Implementation of a Culturally Appropriate
Practice Model Across Three Tribal Child Welfare Systems
Maria Scannapieco and Mary A. Iannone
An Examination of the
Living Conditions of Urban American Indian Children in Unmarried Families: Increasing
Cultural Competence in Child Welfare
Gordon E. Limb and Ryan
Garza