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State Data System: Incorporating ICWA Components

State Data System: Incorporating ICWA Components. MCWIC Tribal Gathering May 5, 2010 Loa Porter, MPA - Indian Child Welfare Consultant Wisconsin Department of Children and Families Division of Safety and Permanence &

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State Data System: Incorporating ICWA Components

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  1. State Data System: Incorporating ICWA Components MCWIC Tribal Gathering May 5, 2010 Loa Porter, MPA - Indian Child Welfare Consultant Wisconsin Department of Children and Families Division of Safety and Permanence & MCWIC State Project Manager for “Best Outcomes for Indian Children” Project

  2. Need for statistical information • Data shows us Where we are, and where we need to be • Areas of improvement • Areas of education • Compliance with federal and tribal laws • Provides a general picture of: • Individual needs • Disporportionality/disparity

  3. Types of Information Available • AFCARS (Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System) • CFSR (Child and Family Service Reviews) • IHS (Indian Health Service) • BIA Labor Force Data (Bureau of Indian Affairs) • State SACWIS (State Automated Child Welfare Information System)

  4. States' SACWIS Status

  5. Tribal Access to State SACWIS systems: 2007

  6. ICWA Compliance Components • Identification • Notice to Tribes • Placement Preference • QEW • Active Efforts

  7. eWiSACWIS Tools • Screening for Child’s Status as Indian • Child’s Biological Family History • Request for Confirmation of Child’s Indian Status • Notice of Involuntary Child Custody Proceeding Involving an Indian Child

  8. Wisconsin’s eWISACWIS

  9. Person Management

  10. Selecting ‘American Indian/Alaskan Native’

  11. The ‘Tribe’ field becomes a required field.

  12. New Tribe value of ‘Identified/Not Confirmed’.

  13. Data is provided quarterly from the information entered by county cases workers. Number of children identified as Indian Number of children subject to ICWA Number of agencies notices Number of children placed per placement preference eWiSACWIS Information

  14. Data Uses • Identification by tribe • Identification by County • Counties response to ICWA requirements • Training • Improving Communication with Tribal Agencies • Continuous Quality Improvement • Create language in State’s Five Year Family Service Plan

  15. Indian Children in OHC

  16. Identified Indian Children by Region

  17. County ICWA Training needs

  18. What you can do • Take these issues up within your state/county, using Uniform ICW Data Elements and Baseline as bases for action • Incorporate the elements into state information system • Engage with us in continuous improvement of useful ICW data to improve outcomes for Native children NICWA - CWLA J. George 4-12-10

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