Placement Preferences
ICWA
The federal Indian Child Welfare Act
Process of openness, self-awareness, being egoless, and incorporating self-reflection after willingly interacting with diverse individuals, resulting in mutual empowerment and lifelong learning
Cultural Humility
Cumulative emotional and psychological wounding across generations, including one’s lifespan, which emanates from massive group trauma
Intergenerational Trauma
The entity that can assign a different placement order that supersedes ICWA
The Tribe
Common practice in many American Indian and Alaskan Native families to share messages and teachings
Storytelling
Relational Worldview Model quadrant that includes the following inputs: Biochemistry, Genetics, Health Status, Sleep and Rest State, Substance Use
Body Quadrant
The first placement preference in foster care and adoptive placements for American Indian/Alaskan Native youth
Member of the child's extended family
Expression through food, clothing, dance, ceremony, drumming, songs, stories, symbols, and in other ways
Cultural/Tribal Traditions
Relational Worldview Model quadrant that includes the following inputs: Social history, Economics, Work and school, Family and peers, Community, Culture
Context Quadrant
The type of setting that an American Indian/Alaskan Native child must be placed.
Least restrictive and most family-like setting
The largest American Indian tribe east of the Mississippi River
The Lumbee Tribe (over 55,000 members)
Relational Worldview Model quadrant that includes the following inputs: innate positive, learned positive, innate negative, learned negative
Spirit Quadrant
Actions that support the parents that are intended to maintain or reunify American Indian/Alaskan Native youth with their family
Active Efforts
The only federally recognized American Indian tribe in NC
The Eastern Band of Cherokee (over 16,000 members)
Relational Worldview Model quadrant that includes the following inputs: Knowledge and judgment, thinking process, self-esteem, memories, and emotions
Mind Quadrant