{"id":31149,"date":"2015-08-21T16:55:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T16:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caseyfamilyv2.wpengine.com\/placement-patterns-for-american-indian-children-involved-with-child-welfare-2\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T20:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:12:26","slug":"placement-patterns-for-american-indian-children-involved-with-child-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casey.org\/es\/placement-patterns-for-american-indian-children-involved-with-child-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrones de colocaci\u00f3n de ni\u00f1os ind\u00edgenas americanos involucrados en el bienestar infantil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-section light fresh-text single wp-block-fresh-text backgrounds-and-margins-aware-block margin-top margin-bottom\">\n <div class=\"container mx-auto px-5\">\n\n \n \n <!-- The CTA is moved up next to the title when in the Head Section style -->\n \n  <div class=\"callout\"><p>American Indian children are disproportionately more likely to be victims of maltreatment and to be in foster care than the general population of children, according to 2012 data. Despite Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) guidelines, only 17 percent of American Indian children not living with a biological parent reside with an American Indian caregiver.<\/p>\n<p>This research brief, developed by Casey Family Programs in partnership with co-authors at the Oregon Social Learning Center and Rady Children\u2019s Hospital, examines the extent to which the placement patterns of American Indian children in out-of-home care are aligned with the placement preference provisions outlined in ICWA.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 40 years ago, a study by the Association of American Indian Affairs found that 35 percent of all American Indian children were in out-of-home care and that about 85 percent of those children were placed with non-American Indian families. ICWA was passed in 1978 to \u201cprotect the best interests of Indian children and to promote the stability and security of Indian tribes and families\u201d by setting minimum federal standards for removing Indian children from their families and placing them in foster or adoptive homes that reflect the unique values of Indian culture.<\/p>\n<p>The research results demonstrate that there is still room for ICWA placement preferences to be realized for American Indian children, but some of the findings suggest active efforts to keep American Indian children in their home may be occurring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n \n <!-- conversly to above, we need to not show the CTA here if it's the Head Section style -->\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"fifty-fifty backgrounds-and-margins-aware-block back-sprint-wood-gradient margin-top margin-bottom padding-top wp-block-fifty-fifty\">\n <div class=\"container mx-auto px-5\">\n <div class=\"grid split-6040 media-left addon-button\">\n <div class=\"content pt-7 md:pt-0\">\n   <div class=\"label text-revolver mb-7 pre-header\">Lea el informe completo<\/div>\n   <h2>Placement patterns of American Indian children involved with child welfare<\/h2>\n   <div class=\"my-6 text-salt-box\"><p>This report compares the legal mandates of ICWA with the actual placement outcomes for American Indian children in out-of-home care.<\/p>\n<p>PDF: 6.81 MB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n   <a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NSCAW-Placement-Patterns-Brief.pdf\" target=\"\">Descargar<\/a>\n   <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"gap\"><\/div>\n <div class=\"media  pt-0 md:pt-9\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Pages-from-NSCAW-Placement-Patterns-Brief.pdf-1187x1536.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n  <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Este informe de investigaci\u00f3n examina si los patrones de colocaci\u00f3n de ni\u00f1os ind\u00edgenas americanos en cuidado fuera del hogar est\u00e1n alineados con la ICWA.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[279,266],"content_type":[201],"hidden-tags-misc":[],"audience":[313,317,322,327],"content_location":[329,372],"topic":[417,433,436,440,449,459],"class_list":["post-31149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-preservation","category-safely-reduce-need-for-foster-care-across-nation","content_type-report","audience-academia-researcher","audience-child-welfare-leader","audience-judiciary","audience-policymaker","content_location-national","content_location-oregon","topic-data","topic-icwa","topic-indian-child-welfare","topic-judicial-system","topic-native-american-american-indian-alaska-native","topic-research"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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