One year has passed since the relaunch of RESPOND, and in this time, we've achieved remarkable progress in our mission to provide culturally competent homes for Black children affected by the foster care system. What Is RESPOND? Founded in the 1990s by foster/adoptive parents Howard and Vickie Denson, RESPOND, a culturally competent approach to foster [...]
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When and why was ICWA established? The Indian Child Welfare Act was established in 1978 in response to a disparate number of Native children entering the foster care system. The common Termination Era ideology that Native children would be better off living with White families served as a catalyst for this mass displacement. At the [...]
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Xavier had been separated from so many people- first from his parents at age nine and then from his two brothers as they were moved from placement to placement. He had already lived in six different foster homes and attended three different schools. But even as a sixteen-year-old who desperately wanted permanency and family, he [...]
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