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Practice Brief 4: Tribal Sovereignty and the CAC Model

NCJ Number
305447
Date Published
September 2022
Length
4 pages
Annotation

This “Practice Brief” provides an overview of the importance of Tribal sovereignty in child and family services, with considerations for how this might affect child advocacy professionals.

Abstract

This “Practice Brief” of the Native Child Advocacy Resource Center explains why the Child Advocacy Center (CAC) movement and individual CACs have established a strong commitment to the development of culturally responsive services that are attuned to disproportionalities in victimization and access to services among various racial and ethnic groups.