Children

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) provides technical assistance and resources for Native American and Indigenous communities. View some of their resources here. Read More ››

What does accountability mean when applied to the attempted genocide of Native people in the US? What does accountability mean as we watch reports of mass graves of First Nation children in Canada? Read More ››

From Administration for Children and Families, a fact sheet of resources to help you find, maintain, and pay for housing in your community. Read More ››

Children Exposed to Violence Read More ››

The Native Women’s Society of the Great Plains developed a culturally specific curriculum for advocates to use in shelter when working with children. Read More ››

There are often lifelong and devastating consequences for children who have been traumatized by witnessing domestic violence against a parent or caregiver. Read More ››

Worldwide, Indigenous people are at a higher risk of human trafficking—including both sex trafficking and labor trafficking—than other diverse populations (Administration for Children and Families Read More ››

In Native communities, family is defined through an expansive web of relationships, including aunties, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. This approach to kinship has shaped Native child-rearing and family and community structures for generations, and as state child welfare systems have increasingly intervened in Native families, Tribal Nations have responded by codifying kinship directly into law, reclaiming and protecting it as both a cultural practice and a legal right. Read More ››

The goal for this webinar is for participants to engage in critical thinking about how their coalition/advocates and communities are actively practicing resiliency with youth who witness or experience Read More ››

Seeing the Wendigo: Sex Trafficking Part 2 Read More ››

This Special Collection is a new video resource initiative of the NIWRC, a project inspired by the national TED Talks: Ideas Worth Spreading. Read More ››