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This ACF plan of action is entitled Culture is Prevention: A Strength Based, Culturally Grounded Journey Toward Prevention, Intervention, and Healing (MMIP Action Plan or “MAP”). ACF recognizes that enduring change must be grounded in culture and self-governance. It is important for non-Native persons to understand that culture to Native American/Indigenous peoples is not merely a social preference, but an ancient cognitive map on how to be and a way of knowing. Moreover, hundreds of years across many generations have taught that culture-based activities and interventions improve Native/Indigenous health and wellbeing. Accordingly, this MMIP Action Plan blends cultural values with the four public health pillars of prevention, intervention, healing, and response to support optimal outcomes in the delivery of ACF programs and services to Native people and communities.

This guide identifies values and priorities that can foster trust and build the knowledge and skills of Tribes, their evaluation partners, and other stakeholders to conduct more useful and meaningful evaluations of child welfare programs.

This is a resource that will describe how the Administration for Native Americans worked with the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation to improve Notice of Funding Opportunities.

A review done by the Bipartisan Policy Center, resulted in this report titled “Righting a Wrong: Advancing Equity in Child Care Funding for American Indian and Alaska Native Families.” 

This resource guide is a consolidation of opportunities offered by federal agencies for organizations looking for funding and other resources to support Native arts and culture activities.

This web-based story map highlights how Native American communities have leveraged OCS programs to make an impact.

In 2016, the Administration for Native Americans (ANA), a program office within the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, launched a first-of-its-kind demonstration project designed to promote a seamless language learning continuum within Native American language revitalization communities.

This report provides an overview of ANA projects virtually visited in 2020, along with brief summary reports for each of the 33 projects evaluated and included in the 2020 data set, arranged by state.

Heather Gordon and Amy Zukowski describe their research methods and findings in article entitled Indigenous Community Projects: Addressing Colonization through Using Culture as a Protective Factor  in The International Indigenous Policy Journal. The premise of their inquiry focused on the impacts the historical trauma and adverse current community conditions (CCCs) wrought by painful histories of colonization.

Keeping Us Whole: Preventing Missing and Murdered Indigenous People - Podcast Series