We hope you enjoy this newsletter, it is one of the benefits of your membership
in the Native American Children's Alliance. This issue we are proud to announce
that the National Children's Alliance has awarded NACA a 2008 Chapter Grant
to support its Chapter activities. With this award NACA will make improvements
to its website by making more child advocacy and MDT resources available to
tribal communities.
NACA receives National Juvenile Justice Programs
Award
We are very excited to announce that the Department of Justice is supporting
NACA's mission to reduce the victimization rates of Native/Alaskan native children
through the development of Native Child Advocacy Centers (CAC). This award will
allow us to continue to educate Native communities throughout the United States
on the effectiveness of the CAC model. In additional to the educational objectives,
we will also be able to provide technical assistance to tribal communities that
are interested in adapting and implementing a CAC in their community. Anyone
interested in participating in this project should contact NACA at [email protected].
Native Child Advocacy Center Pilot Survey Project
Update.
Over the past several months NACA has been working the Colorado Injury Control
Research Center to pilot test a survey that gathers information on Native CAC's/MDTs.
This project has been completed and results of the surveys will be available
in early 2008. Information from the survey will help to paint a fuller picture
of the existing programs that are present in tribal communities and will highlight
the current challenges. We hope to find additional funds to continue to gather
both qualitative and descriptive date regarding child maltreatment in Native/Alaskan
Native communities. A special thank you to all the programs that participated
in this survey!
Collaborating With NICWA
NACA is one of the co-sponsors for the National Indian Child Welfare Association's
(NICWA) 26th Annual "Protecting Our Children" conference. This important
event will be held in Minneapolis April 20-23, 2008. NACA will lead a training
session at the conference. If you register by March 28th there is a substantial
savings for the "Early Bird" rate. The host hotel is the Sheraton
Bloomington Hotel. Book your room early to get the government rate! To register
online go to: www.nicwa.org/conference.
Funding Opportunities
Crime and Justice Research Solicitation Funding amounts for this year's NIJ
Crime and Justice Research solicitation have doubled-up to $4 million may be
available. We also extended the time for applicants to write proposals-90 days.
We're looking for innovative, precedent-setting ideas in what we call our "open"
solicitation for social and behavioral research and evaluation on criminal and
juvenile justice policy and practice. As always, the questions your research
answers should have clear implications for criminal justice policy and practice.
Go to: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl000820.pdf
Proposals are due: March 5, 2008