Dear list members:

["Anna Hagemeister" <AHAGEMEI@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear list members:
I received a local request for information that I am hoping you can help with. An advocacy organization that is working with some Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) lawyers called looking for research to support best practice regarding Indian children, removal from families, placements, and services.  The three best practice positions they are working on are: 
1. Whenever possible, it is beneficial to keep a child with a parent/mother in situations where there is domestic violence and she is able to gain resources to keep herself and her children safe.
2.  Removal of children from their family/mother/parent is detrimental and should be avoided unless all other options have been exhausted.
3. Services and interventions that are culturally specific and culturally senstive to Native American/American Indian families will yield better results than those which are not.
Can you please point me is some directions about such research? I am going to search the NCCAN database, too.
Thanks,
Anna 



Annelies Hagemeister, PhD, MSW
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