Show: The Imprint Weekly

Understanding ICWA Part 1: Active Efforts, with Shannon Smith

On this week’s podcast we discuss a scandal that sparked new mandated reporting laws, the Biden administration’s kinship care ideas, and a new adoption information system in Ireland.

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Shannon Smith of Minnesota’s ICWA Law Center joins us to talk about the active efforts provision of the Indian Child Welfare Act something she sees in play everyday in one of America’s only ICWA courts.

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Mandatory Reporting Was Supposed to Stop Severe Child Abuse. It Punishes Poor Families Instead. https://nbcnews.to/3yLi08p CPS Workers Search Millions of Homes a Year. A Mom Who Resisted Paid a Price. https://nbcnews.to/3TJcyeD Can ‘Kinship Care’ Help the Child Welfare System? The White House Wants to Try https://nyti.ms/3yKDJNV Biden Proposes Major Spending Shifts to Prioritize Kin, Foster Care Prevention https://bit.ly/3iL0U26 Prioritizing Kinship Care with Kim Clifton https://bit.ly/3EvWFSb Irish Leader Apologizes for Adoptions That ‘Robbed Children’ of Their Identity https://nyti.ms/3VBAhij Ireland Opens Decades of Secret Records to Adoptees https://nyti.ms/3Vyrtdi A Seattle Agency Digs Deep into Unanswered Questions About Past Adoption Practices, and its Obligations to Families https://bit.ly/30I2KLO Minneapolis Lawyers Rely on ‘Gold Standard’ Law to Keep Native American Families Together https://bit.ly/2QwINme Supreme Court Set to Consider Fate Of Indian Child Welfare Act in November https://bit.ly/3BIVPlC
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