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Caseworker’s path lined with desire for investigation, love of families
By Paige Willett, Citizen Potawatomi Nation Public Information Department
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, a time when programs across the country like Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s FireLodge Children & Family Services bring awareness to child abuse and neglect and advocate for happy and healthy childhoods for all. CPN Indian Child Welfare Department caseworker Whitney Coots helps children of neglect and abuse improve their situation every day.
She sought a different career path while in college, but life events and interests opened doors for her to utilize her skills in an unexpected way. Coots graduated in 2015 from the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond with a double major in forensic science and criminal justice and joined FireLodge’s workforce in 2019.
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Tribal Nation Leaders Address Child Welfare Act After Court Rules Parts Are Unconstitutional
Native American leaders in Oklahoma are defending the Indian Child Welfare Act, after a federal appeals court ruled parts of it are unconstitutional.
The tribes said the law helps protect their families and culture.
This is a complex ruling; the full document is 325 pages. Essentially, it rules some parts of the adoption law violate equal protection requirements.
Cherokee Nation leaders said this federal law impacts more than 2,000 Cherokee minors a year. That s about three percent of all Cherokee children. Across the nation, Cherokee Nation intervenes in lots of cases, in all foster care cases involving Cherokee children, Cherokee Nation Deputy Attorney General Chrissi Nimmo said.
The tribes said the law helps protect their families and culture.
This is a complex ruling; the full document is 325 pages. Essentially, it rules some parts of the adoption law violate equal protection requirements.
Cherokee Nation leaders said this federal law impacts more than 2,000 Cherokee minors a year. That s about three percent of all Cherokee children. Across the nation, Cherokee Nation intervenes in lots of cases, in all foster care cases involving Cherokee children, Cherokee Nation Deputy Attorney General Chrissi Nimmo said.
Nimmo said they also deal with state cases involving private adoption and guardianship.
Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978. In the ruling, a judge said the act was passed to stop the alarmingly high percentage and often unwarranted break-up of Native American families.