Pierre, SD, USA / DRGNews
Jan 26, 2021 6:26 AM
A first-of-its-kind foster parent organization is looking for adults to become full-time, professional foster parents at the Simply Smiles Childrenâs Village on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation in South Dakota.
The Simply Smiles Childrenâs Village is an intentional community of foster families serving the children most at-risk on the Reservation. The Village offers child placement options that fulfill the spirit of the Indian Child Welfare Act by ensuring that Native children who have been removed from their homes can remain with kin and community.
President and Founder Bryan Nurnberger says the foster parents live at individual foster homes at the Simply Smiles Children’s Village in La Plant, SD. He says the adults will help raise Native children in an environment rooted in Lakota traditions and guided by trauma-informed, therapeutic healing practices. They work with the other foster parents in the Village and