NICWA's 36th Annual Conference Agenda Book 2018

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th PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN National American Indian Conference on Child Abuse & Neglect

Embracing Resilience and Gratitude through Indigenous Subsistence and Medicine

April 15– 18, 2018 • Anchorage, Alaska

Coffee Station

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Welcome Letters � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 4-7 How to Use the Conference App � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 8 We’re Here for You! � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 9 Local Planning Committee and Social Media � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 10 Meet the NICWA Staff and Board of Directors � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 11 Conference Schedule � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 12-13 General Sessions � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 14-15 Workshops by Session � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 16-19 Welcome from Host Sponsor � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 20 Special Events � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 21 Upcoming Trainings and 2019 Annual Conference Save the Date � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 22 Membership Reception � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 23 Banquet and Entertainment � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 24-25 Champion for Native Children � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 26-27 About the Conference Artwork � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 28 Exhibitors � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 29 Sponsors � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 30-31

Agenda-at-a-Glance Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

3:00 p.m.—8:00 p.m.

7:30 a.m.—5:00 p.m.

7:30 a.m.—Noon

8:30 a.m.—10:00 a.m.

Registration

Registration

Registration

Workshops F

4:30 p.m.—5:30 p.m.

8:30 a.m.–Noon

8:30 a.m.—10:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.—Noon

Presenter Orientation

Opening General Session

General Session

Closing General Session

7:00 p.m.—8:30 p.m.

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.

10:30 a.m.—Noon

Workshops A

Workshops C

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

1:30 p.m.—3:00 p.m.

Annual Membership Reception & Meeting

Workshops B

Workshops D 3:30 p.m.—5:00 p.m.

Workshops E 7:00 p.m.—9:00 p.m.

Dinner Banquet

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Dear NICWA Members and Conference Attendees, On behalf of the National Indian Child Welfare Association’s board of directors, I am pleased to welcome you to Anchorage, Alaska, for the 36th Annual Protecting Our Children National American Indian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect. I hope you enjoy this beautiful city and all it has to offer.

Our 2018 conference theme is “Embracing resilience and gratitude through Indigenous subsistence and medicine.” We have known how to care for our children, our communities, and ourselves since time immemorial, and our subsistence and medicine traditions are an important part of how we have done and continue to do so. Indigenous traditions of food and medicine are integral to who we are as Native people, and we are grateful for the opportunity to highlight important work being done in this area to ensure our children will continue to benefit from the knowledge and wisdom of our elders.

I am also grateful that we are here together in Alaska. Every year, our conference is in a different location across tribal and urban Indian communities in the continental U.S. and Alaska, and every year, our conference benefits from the hard work of a local planning committee. The local planning committee guides NICWA’s staff and board in making sure our conference is connected to the conference region in a respectful way. This year’s local planning committee’s members are from across Alaska, and it is thanks to their generous gifts of time and energy that we will share a terrific cultural experience as well as important learnings in Indian child welfare and related fields through our workshops and plenary sessions.

As always, I am honored to serve the organization, and you, as NICWA board president. I sincerely hope you find our time together in Anchorage valuable, enjoyable, and beneficial to the vital work that you do, and that you return to your communities inspired to carry our work forward for the next seven generations.

Thank you,

Gil Vigil (Tesuque Pueblo) President, Board of Directors National Indian Child Welfare Association

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Dear NICWA Members, Sponsors, Donors, and Friends, On behalf of our board of directors, board of trustees, staff, partners, and the families we serve, welcome to the 36th Annual Protecting our Children National American Indian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect. For 36 years, we have been meeting in April, which is child abuse prevention month, to gather together and share our collective wisdom about how to draw on our cultural traditions and teachings to strengthen American Indian/Alaska Native families and children. This year’s theme, “Embracing Resilience and Gratitude through Indigenous Subsistence and Medicine,” focuses on our traditional foods and medicines and their ability to feed our bodies and spirits to sustain and heal us. Creator has provided a bounty for us, and the theme looks at how culture—our foods, medicines, languages, relationships, Indigenous ways of knowing, worldview, and prayers—undergird healthy and loving children and families. I’m grateful to be in Alaska, in a place with such vibrant, thriving, diverse Native peoples and plentiful natural resources as we explore this topic together and learn from one another.

One of the things I most look forward to each year is the NICWA conference.

While I’m fortunate to travel to many tribal communities throughout the year, there are many dear friends and partners that I only see at our conference.

This opportunity to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones motivates and sustains me for the work we do all year long. This chance to hear from you about the strengths and challenges of your work in your community helps me to be a better advocate and to create the next generation of NICWA programming. Please consider attending my workshop “What Do You Need from NICWA?” to tell me, firsthand, about how NICWA can provide more of the support and resources that you need.

Finally, it is with heartfelt thanks and gratitude that I thank the Seminole Tribe of Florida for helping to make all of the work we do at our annual conference possible. Seminole Tribe of Florida has partnered with us to serve as our host sponsor, and this year’s support is an extension and expansion of the generous support that Seminole has provided to NICWA over more than a decade. When you see representatives from Seminole Tribe of Florida, please thank them for their ongoing support of NICWA’s mission: strengthening the well-being of Alaska Native and American Indian children and families.

Quyanaa for participating in the NICWA annual conference, and enjoy your time with us!

Sincerely,

Sarah L. Kastelic, PhD, MSW Alutiiq

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We’re Here for You! Our annual conference is a time where participants experience respite from the demands of their usual daily lives. To make your experience great, we have set aside space in our conference center where our attendees can rest, visit, or jump on the computer for bit.

Elders and Youth Lounge Back of Third Floor Foyer Open Sunday 3:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m., Monday and Tuesday from 8:00 a.m.−5:00 p.m., and on Wednesday from 8:00 a.m.−noon NICWA has set aside some space at the end of the third floor hallway near the large stained glass window by Tikahtnu A for a lounge space reserved specifically for elders and youth only.

Elders and youth, please feel free to drop in to relax, sit with an activity, and enjoy our hospitality. The lounge will also display the video game, Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna), made by CITC Enterprises, Inc. Never Alone is the first game developed in collaboration with the Iñupiat, with nearly 40 Alaska Native elders, storytellers, and community members contributing to the development of the game.

Computer Lounge Second Floor Landing area Open Sunday 3:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. Monday and Tuesday from 8:00 a.m.−5:00 p.m. and on Wednesday from 8:00 a.m.−Noon Thanks to Eaglesun Systems Products for hosting a computer lounge for conference guests to use. Check your email, print your boarding pass, prepare handouts, and connect with friends.

Stop by on the way to workshops to check out the lounge.

Healing Room Ask NICWA staff for location NICWA encourages you to take care of yourself. Our staff and board are available to you for confidential emotional and spiritual support in the event that you are triggered by any of the presentations or discussions throughout the conference. If you would like to receive support, please find a staff or board member, or go to the registration table for assistance. Staff and board members can be identified by their name tags—they will have ribbons that say either “board” or “staff” on them.

Hotel Shuttle In front of Dena’ina Center

NICWA is glad to offer complementary hotel shuttle from the Dena’ina Center to the Hilton, Westmark, and Marriott Hotels.

The shuttle will operate on a continuous loop between the three hotels and the convention center during the main conference hours.

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Thank You, Local Planning Committee!

This year, we are proud to present our very active and engaged local planning committee who volunteered time out of their busy schedules to help bring our event together. It is only with their help and direction that we had the ability to connect with members of local tribes and organizations, ensuring a diverse and well-represented conference.

SERVING ON OUR LOCAL PLANNING COMMITTEE THIS YEAR ARE: Teressa Unaliin Baldwin (Inupiaq), Washington, DC LouAnn E. Benson (Cook Inlet Tribal Council/Tlingit), Anchorage, Alaska

Valerie A. Chadwick (Association of Village Council Presidents), Bethel, Alaska Valerie Derendoff (Stebbins Community Association), Fairbanks, Alaska Barbara Dude (Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska), Juneau, Alaska Lou Johnson (Curyung Tribe), Dillingham, Alaska

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Linda Resoff (Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak), Kodiak, Alaska

Lola Stepetin (Nome Eskimo Community), Anchorage, Alaska

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Welcome

The board of NICWA and NICWA staff welcome you to the 36th Annual Protecting Our Children National American Indian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect.

NICWA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Gil Vigil (Tesuque Pueblo), President Rochelle Ettawageshik (Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians), Vice President W. Alex Wesaw (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi), Secretary Gary Peterson (Skokomish), Treasurer Teressa Baldwin (Inupiaq) Patricia Carter-Goodheart (Nez Perce) Cassondra Church (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi) Angela Connor (Choctaw) Paul Day (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe) Jocelyn Formsma (Swampy Cree) Debra Foxcroft (Tseshaht)

Luke Madrigal (Cahuilla Band of Indians) Aurene Martin (Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) Robbie McGhee (Poarch Band of Creek Indians) Theodore Nelson, Sr. (Seminole Tribe of Florida) Mary Tenorio (Santo Domingo Pueblo) Derek C. Valdo (Acoma Pueblo)

NICWA STAFF Sarah Kastelic (Alutiiq), Executive Director

Barbara Gladue (Anishinaabe), Family Engagement Specialist

Brenda Nelson, Development Associate

Nicole Stewart, Operations Coordinator

Adam Becenti (Diné), Community Development Specialist

Emily Hancock (Cherokee), Communications Assistant

Crys O’Grady, Research Manager

Tristan Tipps-Webster, Member Relations Manager

Monica Hawley (Ioway), Bookkeeper

Puneet Sahota, Research Director

Vilma Vere, Fiscal Assistant

Shanna Knight, ICWA Specialist

Matthew Scott (Siletz), Director of Operations

Chandra Wilson

Jackie Malstrom

Lauren Shapiro, Director of Events and Training

Tia Begay (Diné), Fiscal Manager Kim Christensen (Ojibwe), Development Director Alexis Contreras (Grand Ronde), Research Assistant

(Akimel O’odham/Yaqui), Youth Engagement Specialist Nanookasi Matanakiwan

Terry Cross (Seneca), Founder and Senior Advisor

(Nipissing First Nation), Project Coordinator

John Gamiles Director of Finance

Cori Matthew (Salish and Blackfeet), Director of Programs and Policy

David Simmons, Director of Government Affairs and Advocacy Alton Spencer, Community Development Specialist

(Klamath-Modoc), Human Resources Manager Sarah Wittmann, Event Manager April Ybarra, Executive Assistant to Sarah Kastelic and Library Specialist

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2018 3:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.

Registration First Floor Lobby 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

Presenter Orientation and Registration Tikahtnu E & F 7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.

Annual Membership Reception and Meeting Tikahtnu Ballroom A & B

MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2018 7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Registration First Floor Lobby 8:30 a.m.–noon Opening General Session Idlughet Hall 1 & 2

Conference Masters of Ceremonies Teressa Baldwin (Inupiaq)

NICWA Board Member Debra Foxcroft (Tseshaht) NICWA Board Member Post Colors by Opening Dimond High School JROTC Alaska Native Cultural Charter School’s Yup'ik Choir

Welcome from Community Leaders Village of Eklutna

Tribal representative (invited) Ethan Berkowitz Mayor of Anchorage Bill Walker Governor of Alaska (invited) Gil Vigil (Tesuque Pueblo) NICWA Board President Sarah Kastelic (Alutiiq) NICWA Executive Director

Panel: Alaska Tribal Child Welfare Compact Bernadine Atchison (Kenaitze Indian Tribe), Tribal Council Vice-Chair Erin Dougherty Lynch, Senior Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund Francine Eddy Jones, Xaasteen

(Eagle/Wolf of the Yanyeidi Clan of the Taku TlingitTaku Tlingit), Director, Tribal Family and Youth Services Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska Carla Erikson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Child Protection Section of the Attorney General's Office Valerie Nurr’araaluk Davidson (Orutsararmiut Native Council), Commissioner, Department of Health and Human Services (DHSS 12

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MONDAY (Cont.), APRIL 16, 2018 Noon–1:30 p.m.

Lunch (on your own) 1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.

Session A Workshops

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Session B Workshops

*See page 21 for evening programming TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2018 7:30 a.m.–noon

Registration First Floor Lobby 8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m.

Second General Session Idlughet Hall 1 & 2

Stewarding Intergenerational Transfer of Knowledge: Knowing, Living, and Loving Who We Are Speakers to be announced.

10:30 a.m.–noon

Session C Workshops Noon–1:30 p.m.

Lunch (on your own) 1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.

Session D Workshops 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Session E Workshops 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.

Dinner Banquet Idlughet Hall 1 & 2 Featuring Performer Byron Nicholai (Yup’ik)

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018 8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m.

Session F Workshops 10:30 a.m.–noon Closing General Session Idlughet Hall 1 & 2

Moving Forward Planting the Seed: LaVerne Demientieff (Deg Xit'an Athabascan), Clinical Associate Professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks Ariel Tweto (Inupiaq), Television Personality & Nonprofit Popping Bubbles founder Noon

Retire Colors by Alaska Native Veterans Council

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GENERAL SESSIONS Monday, April 16, 2018 10:30 a.m.–noon Panel: Alaska Tribal Child Welfare Compact Governor Bill Walker and 18 tribes and tribal organizations signed the Alaska Tribal Child Welfare Compact on October 19, 2017.

The government-to-government agreement establishes a framework for tribes to provide child welfare services to their citizens, as they have since time immemorial. This compact is the first of its kind in the State of Alaska and also in the United States.

Panelists:

Bernadine Atchison

(Kenaitze Indian Tribe), Tribal Council Vice-Chair

Bernadine Atchison serves as the vice chair of the Kenaitze Tribal Council. In this position, she served as the one of the tribe’s two representatives during the Alaska Tribal Child Welfare Compact negotiation process, and signed the compact on behalf of the tribe.

Being Nulchina (of the Sky Clan), Bernadine is the mother of three and grandmother of seven. She deemed it a great honor to be part of the compact negotiations and execution—a historic agreement between two sovereigns—to protect Indigenous children through their culture and families.

Erin Dougherty Lynch,

Senior Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund

Erin is a senior staff attorney based in the Native American Rights Fund’s (NARF) Anchorage office. At NARF, Erin works on a variety of federal Indian law issues, including child welfare, voting rights, subsistence hunting and fishing rights, tribal jurisdiction and sovereignty, and issues related to coastal villages threatened by erosion and other problems associated with climate change. Erin serves on the Alaska Bar Association’s Committee for Pro Bono Service and the Committee on Fair and Impartial Courts, as well as the Alaska Court System’s CINA Court Improvement Program and its ICWA Subcommittee.

Francine Eddy Jones, Xaasteen

(Eagle/Wolf of the Yanyeidi Clan of the Taku Tlingit Taku Tlingit), Director, Tribal Family and Youth Services Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska

Francine Eddy Jones, Xaasteen, is Eagle/Wolf of the Yanyeidi clan of the Taku Tlingit people on her mother’s side and Scotch-Irish on her father’s side. She was born and raised in Sitka, Alaska. The seed for her deep passion for the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) was planted as a graduate student in 1978 and flourished when she returned home in 1980 to work in Tlingit & Haida’s first ICWA program.

Francine is committed to the mission of the Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, and has served as the director of the Tribal Family and Youth Services Department since 1996. She also serves as one of five elected tribal co-chairs of the Statewide Alaska Tribal-State Collaboration Group that is committed to embrace and implement the spirit and tenets of ICWA in Alaska.

Carla Erikson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Child Protection Section of the Attorney General's Office.

Carla Erickson is the chief assistant attorney general for the Child Protection Section of the Alaska attorney general’s office. In that role, Carla supervises 22 attorneys and supports staff located in 7 offices across a state that includes 227 federally recognized tribes. Carla is a member of Alaska Court Improvement Project where she has served on the ICWA issues subcommittee and in the development of the statewide ICWA curriculum. Carla also serves on a number of committees working to implement Alaska’s strategic plan in transforming child welfare outcomes for Alaska Native Children.

Valerie Nurr’araaluk Davidson (Orutsararmiut Native Council), Commissioner, Department of Health and Human Services (DHSS)

Valerie Nurr’araaluk Davidson was appointed commissioner of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) by Governor Bill Walker in December 2014. She leads eight state divisions within the department to promote and protect the health and well-being of Alaskans.

Under Davidson’s leadership, Alaska expanded Medicaid, providing health care to thousands of Alaskans. She also worked with the Alaska Legislature to negotiate a bipartisan Medicaid reform bill, providing for the redesign of Alaska’s Medicaid program, including comprehensive behavioral health reform. Davidson, a Yup’ik, was born in Bethel and is an enrolled tribal member of the Orutsararmiut Native Council. Most important, Davidson is a mother to four children.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2018 8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m.

Stewarding Intergenerational Transfer of Knowledge: Knowing, Living, and Loving Who We Are Learn from and be inspired by elders and youth from communities across Alaska about how they are working together to ensure that our Native values, cultures, and ways of life are the foundation for intergenerational healing.

Hosted by First Alaskans Institute

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 10:30 a.m.–noon

Moving Forward Planting the Seed: The Influence of Culture on Resilience, Hope and Wellness Building awareness and understanding about the impact culture has on the well-being and quality of life of Indigenous people; as well as to highlight the inherent strengths, resilience, knowledge, coping mechanisms, and practices of Indigenous people historically, which aided in survival during difficult times. These are a foundation for wellness and healing processes today.

Indigenous people learn traditional values and how to be in a relationship with the physical and spirit world through the cultural practices modeled by our elders, parents, and community leaders as seeds of wellness are rooted within us.

Speakers: Laverne Demientieff (Deg Xit'an Athabascan), Clinical Associate Professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks

LaVerne Demientieff is the daughter of the late Rudy and Alice (Frank) Demientieff of Holy Cross and Anvik, Alaska, and the granddaughter of Stanley Demientieff and Edith Bifelt and Joe Frank and Marcia Reed. LaVerne is Deg Xit’an, Athabascan on her mother’s side and Koyukon Athabascan, Yupik, and Russian on her father’s side. Born in Fairbanks, Alaska, she was raised in the small roadside town of Nenana and in big city of Anchorage, as well as at her family's Fishcamp along the Yukon River, where she observed the hard work her parents put in on a daily basis to provide for their family of 10 children and teach their children the importance of relationship to the people, as well as to the land and animals. LaVerne currently resides in Fairbanks, Alaska, and has one son, aged 23.

LaVerne was inspired to pursue social work following in the steps of her later sister Darlene, who died from cancer at the age of 38 right after graduating with her bachelors in social work (BSW). LaVerne graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks with her BSW and went on to receive her masters in social work from Washington University in St. Louis, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, with a concentration in social and economic development and with an emphasis in management.

She graduated with her PhD in social work from the University of Utah, College of Social Work. LaVerne is currently working as a clinical associate professor for the University of Alaska Fairbanks Bachelor of Social Work program; she is also a licensed master social worker through the State of Alaska. She has found an increasing passion and interest in health and wellness research and practice and enjoys teaching students and sharing her love of learning and people. She believes these areas of interest will allow her to work on behalf of the people and communities in Alaska; as well as work towards awareness and understanding of diversity, wellness, and social justice.

Ariel Tweto (Inupiaq), Television Personality and Nonprofit Popping Bubbles founder

Ariel Tweto was born in 1987 in Unalakleet, Alaska, USA. She is a television talent and producer, known for the Discovery Channel series, Flying Wild Alaska. In addition, she has hosted the Miss Alaska pageant, FNX’s Native Shorts film series, appeared on The Late Late Show sixteen times, and is currently working with the Travel Channel. Tweto is the president and founding member of Popping Bubbles, which serves to inspire and support isolated communities and individuals. With her background as an airplane pilot, she takes advantage of traveling as much as possible.

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WORKSHOPS BY SESSION Monday, April 16, 2018

Session A: 1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m Creating Systems Change in American Indian Child Welfare: Tribal/University/Community Partnerships

Sacred First Foods

Priscilla A. Day, EdD, and Bree Bussey, MSW, LGSW

Tikahtnu D

Linda M. Meanus

Kahtnu 1 Southcentral Foundation's Family Wellness Warriors Initiative: Community-Based Healing From Violence

Healthy Sexuality Christine Diindiisi McCleave and Lenny Hayes, MA Tikahtnu E and F

K'enakatnu Boardroom

Developing and Supporting Prospective and Current Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Parents for Children in Tribal Foster Care

Developing a Coordinated Response to Child Sex

Mary Boo and Alicia Groh

Trafficking: The Role of Social Services

Tubughnenq' 3

Leanndra Ross and Chelsa Dorman

Suzanne M. Garcia and Victoria Sweet A River of Culture

Tikahtnu A

Gary Peterson Preparing Kids for Court and the Court for Kids

Tubughnenq' 4

Geri Wisner, JD Tikahtnu B

Youth Engagement for Tribal Leaders

Grand Voices: Engaging Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children as Advocates

Alexis Contreras and Crys O'Grady, JD Tubughnenq’ 5

Jaia Lent and Cori Matthew Tikahtnu C

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Session B: 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m Strengthening ICWA: Tribal Perspective and Response Donalyn Sarracino, Jacqueline Yalch, and Rochelle Thompson

Calricaraq System of Care: Building a Children's Mental Health System Using Traditional Ways Rose Domnick K'enakatnu Boardroom

Idlughet 3 Tribal Workforce Partnerships: Preparing and Transitioning Social Workers Into Our Workforce Dawn Eckdahl, Candace Lagou, and Ashley Pruitt Kahtnu 1 ICWA from the State Tribal Court’s Perspective: On the Outside Looking Sheldon Spotted Elk, Steff Padilla, and Angi Cavaliere Kahtnu 2

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Introduction to Positive Indian Parenting Barbara Gladue Tikahtnu A Building Adoption Competency for Child Welfare and Mental Health Professionals Emily Smith Goering; Terry Cross, PhD; and Dawn Wilson Tikahtnu B

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(Cont.) Monday, April 16, 2018 Session B: 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m

Ignite Your Spirit—A Model for Engaging Indigenous Youth in Care Lise Haddock Tikahtnu C Achieving Child Well-Being ThroughIntegrated and Data-Driven Program Design Hannah Smith, Barbara (Sunshine) Parker, and Sybil Mann Tikahtnu D Traditional Health-Based Practice: Tools for Wellness Sarah McConnell, LCSW; Meda DeWitt; and Doug Modig Tikahtnu E and F

Introduction to ICWA David Simmons, MSW Tubughnenq’ 3 Bingo!: Using Bingo to Collect Community-Based Data Crys O'Grady, JD, and Alexis Contreras Tubughnenq’ 4 Developing Tribal-State Agreements to Protect the Indian Child and Family Shannon Keller O'Loughlin, Jack F. Trope, and Kandis Martine Tubughnenq' 5

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Session C: 10:30 a.m.–Noon TIPS–MAPP NA: The Native American Version of a Nationally and Internationally Recognized Foster Parent Training Program

Misty Frazier, Denise Gibson, and Gwen Vargas Porter Kahtnu 1

Developing Tribal Staff Core Competency Training Through Guided Simulation Rita Hart, MSW; Claudette Grinnell-Davis, PhD; and Kimee Wind-Hummingbird Tikahtnu D

Boarding Schools: America’s First Indian Child Welfare Policy

Knowing Who You Are AK Casey Groat, Valerie Dudley, and Rachel Hanft Tikahtnu E and F

Sandy White Hawk and Christine Diiindiisi McCleave Kahtnu 2 Expanding Resilience in Indigenous Research for Policy and Practice Change

Jessica Saniguq Ullrich, Jessica Elm, and Jerreed Ivanich K'enakatnu Boardroom

The Winter Bear and the Power of Story Anne Hanley, Brían Wescott, and Annie Huntington-Kriska Tubughnenq' 3

Trauma-Informed Court Systems Victoria Sweet and Adrea Korthase Tikahtnu A

Kav’ai Hitevi: Creating Trails to Balance at the Pascua Yaqui Tribe through Equine-Assisted Services and Experiential-Based Learning Activities.

Gathering Our Communities to Bring Healing: It Is Time

T.Kay Estes Tubughnenq' 4

Jackie Crow Shoe and Elsie Boudreau Tikahtnu B What Do You Need From NICWA? Sarah Kastelic, PhD; Cori Matthew; and Gil Vigil Tikahtnu C

Working With Substance-Abusing Families Barbara Gladue and Alton Spencer, MSW Tubughnenq’ 5

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Tuesday, April 17, 2018 Session D: 1:30 p.m.–3:00 pm

Leadership Transitions that Reflect Who We Are Sarah Kastelic, PhD; Terry Cross, PhD; and Gary Peterson Kahtnu 1 Mental Health Findings: First Nations and White Fostered and/or Adopted Individuals Ashley L. Landers and Sandy White Hawk Kahtnu 2 Child Welfare—Human Trafficking on Navajo Nation Eric Gale and Joni Franklin K'enakatnu Boardroom How Are We Supporting Our LGBTQI2-S Youth in Foster Care?

Jackie Malstrom Tikahtnu A Trauma-Informed Approach and Native American Youth Involvement on Research Alexandrea Flanders, Kae Earth, and Isabel Earth Tikahtnu B

Implementing the Family First Prevention Services Act and the CHAMPS Campaign to Promote Quality Foster Parenting Rob Geen, Hope Cooper, and David Simmons, MSW Tikahtnu D Connecting Our Children to Native American Culture Damon Polk, Breeanne Good Bear, and Lane L. Shepherd Tikahtnu E and F Stop! Hey, What's That Sound? Everybody Look What's Going Down Casey Bader Tubughnenq' 3 First Kids 1st: Engaging in the Movement Through Community Mapping Crys O'Grady, JD, and Alexis Contreras Tubughnenq’ 4 Nabaagoondiwin (Traditional Anishinaabe Adoption) Dennis Petiquan, Clarence White, and Audrey Mandamin Tubughnenq' 5

Wažoki Means Family: Family Group Decision Making With Winnebago Families Candace Payer, Dondieneita Fleary-Simmons, and Rowena Fong, EdD Tikahtnu C

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 Session E: 3:30 p.m.–5:00 pm

Closing the Circle: State/Tribal ICWA Partnerships to Improve ICWA Implementation Priscilla A. Day, EdD, MSW; Melanie Sage; and Ann Davis Kahtnu 1

Identifying First Episode Psychosis and Exploring Treatment Dana Taylor, LCSW Tikahtnu A

Closing Down Whiteclay: Beginning the Healing of Native Children and Families Frank LaMere; Liz Rembold, MSW; and Heather CraigOldsen, MSW Kahtnu 2

Listening to Many Voices: Community Participation, Research Processes and Findings, and the Implications for a Culturally Based American Indian/Alaska Native Youth and Family Program

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Terry Cross, PhD; Barbara Friesen; and Tamara Henderson Tikahtnu B

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(Cont.) Tuesday, April 17, 2018 Session E: 3:30 p.m.–5:00 pm HEART & SPIRIT—An Indigenous Framework to Replace SAFE and PRIDE Melissa Patriquin, Amanda Parriag, and Theresa Stevens Tikahtnu C

Child Welfare Success from a Collaborative Tribal Perspective Tom Lidot, Kim Mettler, and Linda Ruis Tubughnenq' 3

Still Hand Counting Your Children? Making Excel Work for You Cheryl Montoya, Marneena Evans, and Loretta Martinez Tikahtnu D

Cross-Cultural Skills in Indian Child Welfare Adam Becenti, MPP Tubughnenq’ 4

Healthy Relationship Skills Strengthen Tribal Families Robyn Cenizal Tikahtnu E and F

Being "Active" in our "Efforts": Agents of Change Harmony Bercier, MA; Jessi Leneaugh, MS; and Heather Traynor, LSW Tubughnenq' 5

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 Session F: 8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m.

A Hope and Wellness Screening Toolkit: Bringing Suicide Prevention to Your Community Sandra Lee Momper and Jennifer Hopson Kahtnu 1

Youth, Family, and Community Engagement Through Experiential Education Joseph Ansera Jr., Adelbert T. Quiver, and Ruthie Chavez Tikahtnu C

The Indian Family Advocacy Center: Changing Lives One Story at a Time Jacqueline Beaulieu, Ann Haines, and Sunshine Day Kahtnu 2

Safe Infant Sleep for American Indians and Alaska Natives: The Healthy Native Babies Project Kristin Helvey Tikahtnu D

Oregon's Dedication to ICWA Compliance Emily A. Hawkins, Christine Kamps, and Amie Fender, JD K'enakatnu Boardroom

Bridging the Gap Between Tribal and State Child Welfare Agencies Virginia Drywater-Whitekiller, Toni Hail, and Nikki Baker Tikahtnu E and F

Using Collaboration and Cultural Relevance to Strengthen the Outcomes of American Indian Children, Youth, and Families Involved in

Knocking Down Barriers to Increase Family Involvement Dave P. Panana, BSN; Cynthia E. Guzmán, PhD; and Connie M. Gould, LPCC

Child Welfare Jasmine Grika, Heather Capistrant, and Shad Cook Tikahtnu A

Tubughnenq' 3

Community, Family and Youth Driven Program Evaluation: Engaging a Strengths-Based Perspective for Tribal Programs Julie R. Morales, Myra Parker, and Juan-Paulo Ramírez Tikahtnu B

Effective Tribal Governance in Child Welfare David Simmons, MSW Tubughnenq’ 4 Predictors of Reunification for AI/AN Children in Out-of-Home Care Vernon Brooks Carter, PhD Tubughnenq' 5

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SEMINOLE TRIBE OF FLORIDA IS PROUD TO SPONSOR The 36th Annual Protecting Our Children National American Indian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect

Welcome National Indian Child Welfare Association to Anchorage, Alaska!

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MO ND AY, A P R I L 1 6 ,2 0 1 8 Optional Programming:

The Winter Bear 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.

VOTH Theater at the Performing Arts Center (across the from the Dena’ina Center)

The Winter Bear is the story of Athabascan teenager, Duane “Shadow” David, who’s contemplating suicide when he’s sentenced to cut wood for Koyukon Athabascan elder Sidney Huntington. At first the two can’t even communicate, but they gradually find a shared language based on the old man’s hunting experience and the young man’s video game vocabulary. Together they construct a Bear Spear in the old, traditional way. Soon after, Duane is forced to kill a marauding Winter Bear using only the Spear. Sidney is wounded in the encounter so Duane, who’s deathly afraid of showing himself in any public way, must stand in the spotlight and speak for Sidney at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention.

Please note, this is a ticketed event hosted by the Perseverance Theatre. Tickets will be sold for $15 and can be purchased at the theater during business hours and 30 minutes before the show.

Gathering for Adoptees, Former Foster Children, and Their Birth Relatives: 7:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.

K’enakatnu Boardroom

NICWA is pleased to announce that this year's Protecting Our Children Annual Conference will feature the First Nations Repatriation Institute (FNRI) as special guests. On the evening of Monday, April 16, 2018, FNRI Founder and Director Sandy White Hawk will facilitate a special meeting intended for American Indian and Alaska Native adoptees, former foster children, and birth parents.

Birth parents are those parents whose children were adopted out. Birth relatives are those relatives who have a sibling, cousin, or other relative who is adopted out or in foster care.

Participants are welcome to share their experiences or just come and listen. White Hawk will lead the discussion on what it was like growing up and not having words to describe what she experienced as an adoptee. She states, "We can share our stories—often for the first time—and find out we are not alone."

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SAVE THE DATE

March 31–April 3, 2019 Albuquerque, New Mexico

37th Annual

Protecting Our Children National American Indian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect

Mark your Calendars for NICWA Training Institutes!

For more information visit www.nicwa.org

April 18–20, 2018

June 12–14, 2018

September 18–20, 2018

• Understanding ICWA • Positive Indian Parenting

• Cross-Cultural Skills in Indian Child Welfare • Working with Substance- Abusing Families • Qualified Expert Witness

• Understanding ICWA • Positive Indian Parenting

Anchorage, Alaska

Portland, Oregon

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

December 4–6, 2018

February 5–7, 2019

April 3–5, 2019

• Understanding ICWA • Positive Indian Parenting

• Understanding ICWA • In-Home Services • Tribal Customary Adoption

• Understanding ICWA • Positive Indian Parenting

New Orleans, Louisiana

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Due to an increasing demand for new training topics, NICWA is excited to announce even more training institutes in the 2018–2019 year than in the past. Please join us to further your knowledge, skill set, and expertise in tribal child welfare, including staying up to date with the recently finalized Indian Child Welfare Act guidelines and regulations by attending our Understanding ICWA course. Complete our Positive Indian Parenting train-the-trainer course so you can bring this culturally based parenting class to your community. Attend our In-Home Services training to learn a concrete set of skills to help support families in your community. To develop cross-cultural competency in the field of tribal child welfare, attend our Cross-Cultural Skills in Indian Child Welfare training. Qualified Expert Witness training prepares participants with information about the basic legal requirements of ICWA and will train on how to provide qualified expert witness testimony in ICWA cases. Tribal Customary Adoption discusses judicial processes for the recognition and certification of customary law regarding the adoption of children and sets out a culturally based framework for conducting formal adoptions without the termination of parental rights. Lastly, attend our Working with Substance-Abusing Families training to collaborate with multiple systems in making successful outcomes possible with individuals and families with substance abuse issues.

We hope to see you there!

Visit www.nicwa.org/training-institutes for more information.

You’re Invited: NICWA Membership Reception Sunday, April 17, 2018 7:00 p.m.−8:30 p.m.

Tikahtnu Ballroom A & B

Please join us for our signature members-only event of the year!

Help us kick off our conference with a celebration of cultural performances, meet the executive director and NICWA board, and hear from our 2018 Member of the Year award winner whilst enjoying coffee and dessert.

This is a great opportunity to relax and network with your fellow NICWA members and enjoy some beautiful performances.

Program Highlights:

• NICWA Executive Director Sarah Kastelic will address the assembly • Our board of directors will provide a brief NICWA year-in-review and introduce the slate of officers for election • The 2018 Member of the Year award recipient will be announced • Enjoy cultural performances that will start off our conference in a good way • A chance to win door prizes • Emceed by Robert McGhee (Poarch Band of Creek Indians), member of the NICWA board of directors

Make sure you visit the membership booth during conference!

Get involved for your chance to win MEMBER-ONLY RAFFLE PRIZES! Raffle #1: Let us take your photo or a short video for social media to receive your raffle ticket!

Raffle #2: Fill out a member survey/spotlight to receive a raffle entry!

Raffle #3: Join, renew, or upgrade your membership onsite (or purchase one for a friend)

and get your raffle ticket!

(You can check out more about the three members’ raffle prizes in the conference app!)

Pick up an application for our 2019 Wisdom Circle Scholarship!

Check your membership status, learn about prizes for recruiting new members, and find out more about your benefits and ways to get involved!

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NICWA Banquet Dinner and You Are Invited!

NICWA and Host Sponsor Seminole Tribe of Florida invite you to our annual Banquet Dinner, featuring a performance by Byron Nicholai (Yup’ik) in support of our work protecting Native children and families!

Tuesday, April 17th, 7:00—9:00 p.m.

Idlughet Hall 1 & 2 • • •

Champion for Native Children Award, Linda Logan (Oklahoma Choctaw), posthumous award Entertainment, Byron Nicholai (Yup’ik), musician Emcee: Ariel Tweto (Inupiaq), television personality and founder of nonprofit Popping Bubbles

GRAND PRIZE

Raffle tickets: 1 ticket/$5.00 or 5 tickets/$20.00 Does Alaska’s weather have you dreaming of the tropics? Good news! This year, NICWA is excited to offer an all-inclusive Grand Prize Raffle trip for two to Hawaii! Experience the beauty of Oahu during a four-day, three-night stay at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort featuring the iconic Rainbow Tower. This trip includes two round-trip airline tickets from Alaska Airlines, dining, and all the sunshine you could want. The hotel is located right on Oahu’s widest beach and is central to all the things to see and do in Waikiki. Enjoy a museum trip to learn about Indigenous Hawaiian culture, a turtle snorkeling tour with lunch, and an amazing show with an all-youcan-eat dinner at one of Oahu’s best luaus.

More than one raffle prize!

Raffle tickets also enter you to win our second prize of a Microsoft Surface Pro donated by Eaglesun System Products. This tablet is incredibly powerful and the best laptop replacement by far, making it a great piece of tech to take with you wherever you go. This tablet features a beautiful 12.3” touchscreen, 256GB of memory, and 13.5 hours of video-playback battery life.

You can find raffle ticket sales volunteers in flashy yellow sashes available in the hallways before and after general sessions, as well as during breaks. All conference goers may also purchase tickets at the NICWA store and registration tables. Tickets will go on sale starting Sunday, April 15, and close at 6:45 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17, preceding the Banquet Dinner program.

This year's Grand Prize Raffle is presented by our Four Directions sponsors, including Ak-Chin Indian Community, Comcast NBCUniversal, Eaglesun Systems Products, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi and Gun Lake Tribe (as of March 28, 2018).

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Memorable program

The seated portion of the evening begins with a three-course dinner. Highlights of the program include the Champion for Native Children Award presentation, raffle drawings, a paddle raise in support of NICWA’s programs, and a performance by Byron Nicholai.

Paddle raise

As part of the banquet dinner program, NICWA will provide the opportunity to support our services through raising donation envelopes at different dollar amounts. Also known as a paddle raise, this activity has special significance and connection to Native peoples in the Northwest, where NICWA calls home.

Paddles are used for canoes and kayaks. Historically, they enabled people to travel long distances on the ocean to secure food for their families, trade with other communities, and visit friends and relatives. The raising of paddles refers to a canoe coming in peace, support of another village, and honoring important work. Thanks to all who raise your envelopes, or paddles, and help sustain NICWA’s important work protecting Native children and families. Those who participate are gifted with a cedar paddle.

Performance

by Byron Nicholai Don’t leave early and miss out on a memorable performance

by Yup’ik youth performer and composer Byron Nicholai, best known for creating his Facebook page I Sing.

You Dance.

Byron comes from the Village of Toksook Bay and has traveled within and outside Alaska to present and perform his music.

More details on all NICWA’s raffles can be found in your conference app!

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CHAMPION FOR NATIVE CHILDREN Linda J. Logan, MSW, Oklahoma Choctaw Linda was a member of the Choctaw Nation, was raised in a small town in New Hampshire. As one of the only minority families in the community, Linda faced discrimination and hardships that ultimately served as a driving force behind her career path and her desire to make a difference in the lives of Indigenous people.

With the encouragement and guidance from a nurturing high school teacher, Linda left home at the age of 17 and moved to Boston. There, she put herself through college, where she was strongly influenced by one of her professors, Steve Charlton. She focused her studies and research on the various social and health disparities that most deeply impacted Native communities, receiving both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Boston College.

The political and cultural landscape for Native Americans was undergoing a major shift during the 1970s, and Linda was drawn to the grassroots movements taking place. Linda provided testimony to the federal government advocating for the Indian Child Welfare Act, which was passed in 1978. She also began working for the Boston Indian Council (BIC) as an undergrad, where she held various roles including program director. This is also where she was inspired by her esteemed colleagues Louise Erdrich, Cliff Saunders, Bruce Oaks, Suzanne Letendre, and Sammy Sapiel. Her time at BIC, working with these individuals encouraged her to broaden her skills and expertise to influence positive change in as many tribes as she could.

Linda moved to Texas in 1981 to take a position at the Dallas Intertribal Center, where she implemented programming that was part of a larger national movement enhancing services integration for Native populations. In 1983 she started a family while working for the consulting company she helped start, which provided mental health programming services and human resource training to tribal affiliates. Over the next decade, she expanded her consulting work throughout the United States and provided program evaluation and grant writing and reviewing for different federal agencies. In 1995, she published Tribal Writes: The Correspondence Guide for Native Americans, a book geared towards helping Native Americans with grant writing and other nonprofit sector endeavors. From 2005–2013, Linda served as executive director for the Native American Children’s Alliance (NACA). The child advocacy work that she did on reservations in the U.S. and Canada with NACA was among her proudest accomplishments. During that time Linda took a board seat with NICWA, she always mentioned how near and dear to her heart this organization was to her. It was truly and honor for her to be able to serve children and families in this capacity.

Sadly, in early 2017 Linda was diagnosed with brain cancer. Though she fought with the strength and grace of the warrior that she was, she ultimately was called home to the spirit world on April 25, 2017. She is deeply missed, yet the impact of her work and dedication echoes on.

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“Linda Logan was a dedicated and hardworking champion for Native women and children, social justice, and cultural preservation. Linda helped establish and support the first tribal child advocacy centers and spent several years providing training and technical assistance to tribes on child sexual abuse. Linda served as the executive director of the Native American Children's Alliance a coalition of tribal child advocacy centers. While there, she established a collaboration with NICWA and eventually joining our board of directors. In recent years Linda turned her attention to language preservation seeing culture as the primary avenue for our people to heal from past abuse.”

-David Simmons, NICWA director of government affairs and advocacy “Linda was always so passionate about NICWA, and the work that the organization does to help children. It really made me want to be able to help.

She was such a wonderful person.”

-Jeanne Rorex Bridges, of Rorex Bridges

Studio in Oktaha, Oklahoma

“Linda was a compassionate caring person who was committed to NICWA and to helping native children and families. Linda befriended me and I will always value the experiences we shared together. She was an amazing lady worthy of Honor!”

-Angela Connor, NICWA board member

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2018 CONFERENCE ARTIST AND ABOUT THE ARTWORK About the Artist Apayo Moore is a Yup'ik artist from Bristol Bay. Her main subjects reflect the subsistence lifestyle and ancestral commitment to live as a part of nature. She has history as a commercial fisherman and activist for subsistence preservation, and has dedicated her life to learning the traditional Yup'ik way. She received her BA in art-business in 2009 from Fort Lewis College. She lives in Aleknagik, Alaska, creating art and raising her two children. Visit www.apayoart.com to see her artwork.

About the Work Created in 2015, Our Provider is a self-portrait which examines cultural identity through pale complexion and light hair. It is a reminder of stereotyping and being aware of people who were raised Yup'ik and identify with their Native heritage despite their looks.

The moose is a metaphor for a successful provider who feeds his family through subsistence.

2019 CALL FOR ARTISTS NICWA is excited to once again provide an opportunity for artists to showcase their talents in support of our 2019 Protecting Our Children Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The selected artist will be awarded a cash prize of $1,500 for the use of their work in promotional materials for our 2019 conference.

Artwork and submission forms should be submitted no later than May 9, 2018.

Visit: www.nicwa.org/conference to apply

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VISIT OUR EXHIBITORS

Accreditation Guru, Inc. https://accreditationguru.com Mamaroneck, New York

AK Child and Family

Healing Lodge of the Seven Nations www.healinglodge.org Spokane Valley, Washington

www.akchild.org Anchorage, Alaska

Helen McNeil

Amy Rogde

K’s Handbags and More

Soldotna, Alaska

Beraten Software Corporation www.beratensoftware.com Portland, Oregon

Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis http://brownschool.wustl.edu St. Louis, Missouri

Capacity Building Center for Tribes Denver, Colorado

CARF International www.carf.org Tucson, Arizona

Charlene Johnson

Anchorage, Alaska

Jamul, California

Laura Ferguson

www.upallnightforauroras.com Palmer, Alaska

JT Mountain Jewelry

Santo Domingo, New Mexico

Pro-ACT, Inc

www.proacttraining.com Upland, California

Rural Human Services Fairbanks, Alaska

Safe4Kids

www.safe4kids.com.au Armadale, Australia

Mission Enterprises

Sequel Youth and Family Services

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges

Spirit Dancer

Upland, California

www.ncjfcj.org Reno, Nevada

National Resource Center for Healthy Marriage and Families www.healthymarriageandfamilies.org Fairfax, Virginia

www.sequelyouthservices.com Fairfax, Missouri

Surrey, British Columbia

Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium www.searhc.org Wrangell, Alaska

Stone Soup Group

Phoenix, Arizona

Native American Management Services

Eaglesun Systems Products, Inc.

Native American Travel, LLC

The Center for Adoption Support and Education

NF4NC and Children’s Alliance

Trickster Company and HotGlaa, LLC

www.eaglesun.com Tulsa, Oklahoma

Handel Information Technologies www.handelit.com Laramie, Wyoming

Anchorage, Alaska

nat.semtribe.com Hollywood, Florida

http://sbsrc.unl.edu/nf4nc-nativefamilies-native-children Winnebago, Nebraska

www.stonesoupgroup.org Anchorage, Alaska

adoptionsupport.org Burtonsville, Maryland

www.trickstercompany.com Juneau, Alaska

University of Alaska Fairbanks www.uaf.edu Fairbanks, Alaska

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Sponsors Sacred Circle

Thank you to our generous sponsors!

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Thank You!

Four Directions

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5100 SW Macadam Avenue, Suite 300 • Portland, Oregon 97239 Telephone: (503) 222-4044 • Fax: (503) 222-4007 www.nicwa.org

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National American Indian Conference on Child Abuse & Neglect