Training social workers to keep Native children home
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| | Heart work: Training social workers to keep Native children home |
Forty-five years ago, Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act to address a crisis — Native American children were being removed from their homes at alarming rates.
Studies found that more than a quarter of all American Indian children were taken from their families, placed in foster care or put up for adoption, typically in non-Native households.
ICWA was designed to counteract decades of policies and systems that uprooted Native American children from their families and culture — from boarding schools to the Indian Adoption Project, to the disproportionate removal of Native American children by child welfare agencies.
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| | ChangeMakers: Cameron PajYeeb Yang is an activist for the Hmong community |
Cameron PajYeeb Yang, 28, is a Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota and a development manager for Freedom Inc., a Wisconsin-based nonprofit organization that works with low-income communities of color, particularly Black and Southeast Asian communities, to help them navigate housing, health care, the legal justice system and other services.
Yang is a second-generation Hmong queer, transgender, nonbinary person who was born and raised in St. Paul, where they still live.
“There are a lot of great pockets of Hmong, queer, trans folks,” Yang said of the Twin Cities communities. “There are a lot of other informal spaces that cultivate great relationships within the Hmong queer trans community.”
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