Meaningful Cultural Connections: Working with Indigenous Communities

This training will increase your commitment to, and skills for, engaging with Tribes so that children, youth and families have cultural continuity and culturally relevant safety, permanency and wellbeing.

This course will offer ways to learn about Tribal resources, and to support Indigenous families with meaningful cultural connections. Cultural continuity is a protective factor, and when cultural relationships have been interrupted, facilitating reconnection can be healing of the issues that brought the family to the attention of child welfare. We will explore Tribes’ traditional supports, cultural activities, community knowledge keepers and Tribes’ structured service programs. Each Tribe has a unique culture and their particular approaches to supporting their families.