Covid-19 Impact on Tribal Children

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on our communities in multiple ways. One of the consequences of the pandemic has been the closure of many of our childcare centers. As these closures continue to loom on, we as childcare and child welfare professionals are looking at the immediate and potential long-term impacts from this. We can speculate potential outcomes, but would like to hear directly from you. By gathering this information directly from our tribal communities, we will have a foundation for knowing how to properly respond and allocate resources moving forward. The following survey is just a starting point for this important work. We hope to have many continuing conversations’ with you all in the coming weeks, months or even years to continue our work towards addressing this issue and ultimately protecting one of our most valuable resources, our children.

The survey is three, open ended questions. Answer each as detailed or brief as you would like.