Project Description
Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Time: 8:30 am–4:00 pm
Place: McNamara Alumni Center
University of Minnesota
6 BOSW CEUs and 5 CLEs were available for this forum.
Event Overview
Federal and state laws, as well as agency policies and practice, play a significant role in how we work with fathers in Indian child welfare practice. In this forum, speakers and panelists with differing viewpoints analyzed the legal context of the “Baby Veronica” case for a closer look at father involvement. Practice strategies and policy recommendations were a focal point.
Presenters
Judge William Thorne
Utah Court of Appeals
Chrissi Nimmo
Assistant Attorney General of the Cherokee Nation
Mark Fiddler
Attorney representing the Capobianco Family
Erma J. Vizenor
Chairwoman, White Earth Nation
Panelists
Terry Cross
Executive Director
National Indian Child Welfare Association
A Guide to the Supreme Court Decision in Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl (PDF)—Association on American Indian Affairs & National Indian Child Welfare Association The Dr. Phil Show Fact Check (PDF)—National Indian Child Welfare Association
Esie Leoso-Corbine
Social Services Director for Bad River Band of Ojibwe, Wisconsin
Former Administrator in Tribal and County Systems
Mary Boo
Assistant Director
North American Council on Adoptable Children
“Legal Battle Continues for Veronica” (PDF)—Summer 2013 Adoptalk, North American Council on Adoptable Children
Moderator
Sarah Deer
Assistant Professor of Law, William Mitchell College of Law
This forum was offered under the auspices of the First Nations Repatriation Institute; Center for Regional and Tribal Child Welfare Studies, Department of Social Work, University of Minnesota—Duluth; and Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development.
