Urgent: Share How Federal Funding Delays Impact Native Children & Families

Your insights are critical—help us understand how funding disruptions affect your community.

We need your input on a critical issue affecting Native children and families. As we continue our advocacy to address federal funding disruptions for tribal and urban Native human services programs caused by the new Administration’s executive orders and actions, we want to better understand how this could impact Native communities—read our latest press release here. Your responses will help us communicate the real-world consequences to decision-makers and ensure that tribal and urban Native human services programs remain strong and effective.

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* 1. If your tribal nation or urban organization were to see their federal social services funding significantly delayed or possibly discontinued, what are the impacts for Native children and families in your community?

Parents have fewer services to help them support the safety of children in their home.

More children will be removed from their homes and placed in foster care

Parents will struggle more to meet the basic needs of their families.

Critical services to treat trauma, mental illness, addiction, and other health care concerns will become more difficult to access

Response times to address safety threats to children and other emergency issues in the family will be longer

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* 2. Would delayed or discontinued federal human service funding result in your tribal nation or urban organization being unable to assist Native children and families who are in state social service systems (e.g., families involved in ICWA cases)?

Yes

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* 3. Does your tribal nation or urban organization have other resources to replace delayed or discontinued federal funding to support social services for Native children and families?

Yes

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* 4. If your tribal nation or urban organization were to have significant delays or have their social services funding discontinued, would you have to depend more on the state to provide services for your community?

Yes

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* 5. Is there anything else you would like to share about the impacts of the federal freeze?

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* 6. The personal information you provide is confidential and we won't use this information to self-identify individuals or tribal nations and urban organizations. Please add name, tribal nation or urban organization, and contact information

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* 7. Tribal Nation or Urban Organization

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* 8. Contact Infromation

Your insights are invaluable. NICWA is coordinating with other national and regional tribal organizations to collect this critical data to help inform federal lawmakers and the Administration. The data you send is confidential and we won’t identify individual respondents or tribal nations and urban organizations in materials we develop unless you give us permission to do so.

Thank you for your time and for the work you do every day to support Native children and families.