Native Child Advocacy Resource Center

The Native Child Advocacy Resource Center (NCARC), a division of the National Native Children's Trauma Center (NNCTC) at the University of Montana, will serve as the OJJDP Tribal Children's Advocacy Centers (CAC) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Provider. NCARC will provide TTA to tribes and non-tribal CACs and multidisciplinary teams (MDT) as they develop, improve, or expand CACs and MDT responses to child abuse in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. NCARC;s project involves implementing four goals: 1) Understand child advocacy center needs in Tribal communities through an in-depth needs assessment of Tribal child advocacy centers and collaboration with regional child advocacy centers needs assessment implementation; 2) Collaborate systematically with Victims of Child Abuse Act partners to leverage assets and capabilities efficiently, coordinate TTA approach to tribes and non-tribal CACs/MDTs, and support strategic planning; 3) Deliver systematic, coordinated, multimodal TTA to CACs, MDTs, state chapters, and tribal stakeholder groups, tailored according to need and capacity; and 4) Based on needs assessment findings and collaborative input from RCACs, develop and/or adapt curricula, resources, and other products to support tribes interested in developing CAC/MDT capacity, as well as non-tribal CACs/MDTs/state chapters interested in enhancing culturally responsive services to AI/AN communities. Expected outcomes of the project, which is national in scope, include increased understanding of the CAC TTA needs of AI/AN communities; increased ability of the VOCAA partners to meet the TTA needs of, and advance the CAC movement in, AI/AN communities; increased interest and capacity in AI/AN communities to develop tribally operated CACs; increased cultural responsiveness of non-tribal CACs that serve AI/AN children and families; and the building of a hub of curricula, resources, and information on CACs in AI/AN communities.

The Native Child Advocacy Resource Center, a division of the National Native Children's Trauma Center at the University of Montana, will serve as the OJJDP Training and Technical Assistance provider for Children's Advocacy Centers serving American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. The Native Child Advocacy Resource Center will collaborate with Victims of Child Abuse Act partners to provide training and technical assistance to Tribal children's advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams, non-Tribal children's advocacy center and multidisciplinary teams, state chapters, and other stakeholders as they develop, improve, or expand children's advocacy centers and multidisciplinary team responses to child abuse cases in AI/AN communities. Expected outcomes of the project, which is national in scope, include increased understanding of children's advocacy centers and training and technical assistance needs of AI/AN communities; increased ability of the Victims of Child Abuse Act partners to meet the training and technical assistance needs of and advance the children's advocacy centers movement in AI/AN communities; increased interest and capacity in AI/AN communities to develop Tribally-operated multidisciplinary teams and children's advocacy centers and state chapters that serve AI/AN children, families, and communities; and the building of a hub of curricula, resources, and information on children's advocacy centers in AI/AN communities.