First-ever Oral Histories of Indian Boarding School Survivors
Oct 11, 2024 · The first-of-its-kind oral history project, underway since March, receives and archives these memories. Three historians and a team of an additional 10 to 12 people have so far visited Indigenous communities in Oklahoma, Alaska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana and Michigan, and will continue their work through 2026.
NYC Class-Action Lawsuit Defends Parents’ Rights in CPS Visits
Feb 21, 2024 · Last October, the Administration for Children’s Services launched a pilot program in select neighborhoods in Brooklyn and the Bronx which required caseworkers to hand parents a palm-sized information card informing them of their rights to not let CPS workers into their homes, and to call an attorney at the very first stage of an investigation.
The Imprint
The Imprint highlighted each of the policy recommendations made this summer by the participants of the Foster Youth Internship Program, a group of seven young people that experienced foster care and have completed congressional internships.
California’s Notorious Youth Prisons Shut Down Today - The Imprint
Jun 30, 2023 · A packed dorm at the Fred C. Nelles Correctional Facility in the 1990s, an era when California’s youth prisons held roughly 10,000 teens and adolescents.
Northern California Siblings Receive Foster Care Abuse Trial Award ...
Dec 7, 2023 · A jury in Northern California has awarded nearly $25 million to three siblings who were sexually abused by a foster parent, compensation that attorneys for the children describe as some measure of accountability for the assaults they suffered.
Texas 'Miranda' bill would require CPS to tell parents their rights
A bill filed by state Rep. James Frank (R), aims to increase due-process protections for parents involved in CPS cases. Frank, chair of the Texas House Human Services Committee, which oversees the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services, said he wants to cut down on children being unnecessarily placed in an overburdened foster care system already under fire …
DOJ Freezes Funding for National Child Advocates Group - The …
The stepped-up oversight has resulted in staff furloughs at the 39-year-old National CASA/GAL Association for Children, which sets standards for volunteers matched with hundreds of thousands of children in family courts across the country.
How Four Women on White Earth Beat Opioid Addiction
Nov 20, 2024 · ‘I help others now’: A Native mother reflects on overcoming the shame of addiction.. Her kids are now school age, but A.B., who requested to be identified by her initials only, says specific memories from their early childhood still haunt her. A.B. wears a red, black and gray ribbon skirt, flip-flops, a red Under Armour T-shirt, her hair in a sleek high bun.
Civil Rights Complaint Alleges Minnesota's Child Welfare System ...
The national groups are representing the Minneapolis NAACP, which has been outspoken on one recent child welfare case involving a Black family, detailed in The Imprint’s 2023 “Fighting for Kin” series. “Black children and families have long endured suffering at the hands of Minnesota’s child welfare system,” Cynthia Wilson, Minneapolis NAACP branch president, stated in a press release.
New Archive Sheds Light on Catholic Indian Boarding Schools
Jun 8, 2023 · Now, 17 years after her mother’s death, some answers that have long remained elusive may emerge. St. Mary’s shut down in 1927 with few accessible records left behind, but it now appears on a first-of-its-kind list of Catholic-run boarding schools for Native children.. The recently published online database provides vital breadcrumbs of information for survivors and their descendants ...