US: Native American Foster And Kinship Families Provide Essential Service
Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan – August 12, 2022
Native American foster and kinship families play a vital role in the lives of native youth while their parents work through difficulties that make it unsafe to stay at home. Being cared for by Native American families within their own community can minimize the trauma to children while helping maintain important cultural connections.”There is already a common foundation established by both being from similar backgrounds and the foster parent having survived and persevered through many similar obstacles already,” said Sequoia Crosswhite, a Lakota language and culture immersion teacher at a Rapid City elementary school.
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