 Fulfilling the hope of ICWA: The role of community contextSusan Quash-Mah, Jean Stockard, Deborah Johnson-Shelton and Ryann Crowley Children and Youth Services Review, 2010, vol. 32, issue 6, 896-901 Abstract: This paper suggests that long-term foster care, especially when it is provided within an American Indian Cultural Environment (AICE), may be a culturally-appropriate alternative form of permanency for American Indian children. Administrative data on foster care placements of children from four California counties over a five-year period indicate that children in the county with the strongest AICE had fewer placements and placements that were, on average, significantly longer. Within counties that had recognized tribes, children from local tribes had longer placements. Data on individual placements were available for one county and indicated that children whose home tribes were within that county and who were placed on Rancherias had significantly longer placements than other children. These relationships remained significant when children's demographic characteristics were controlled. Implications for policy and practice related to ICWA are discussed. Keywords: ICWA; Adoption; Permanency; Foster; care; Administrative; data (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:32:y:2010:i:6:p:896-901 Access Statistics for this article Children and Youth Services Review is currently edited by Duncan Lindsey More articles in Children and Youth Services Review from Elsevier |
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