Reconciliation/Trust Building

Purpose:

Part of the Collaborative Hocoka (Circle)’s maturation process has been the realization and consensus that in order to work together and accomplish our mission, vision, and activities, we must constantly tend and nurture trust building among the four kinds of Circle members. Indeed, we have learned—sometimes painfully—that trust building must be an explicit and a continuous process throughout the life and work of the Circle, particularly in the context of the history of the relationship between public child welfare and the tribal nations in the United States and in South Dakota. We have also learned that if we take trust building for granted, we will suffer the consequences.

Therefore, the Collaborative Hocoka (Circle):

· commits itself at the level of the Circle to build trust in Native child welfare through truth telling, acknowledging, restoring, and relating;

· assists the regional collaboratives as they are ready developmentally in building trust at the local level;

· Promotes trust building in child welfare among the four kinds of Circle members and other community Stakeholders across the State of South Dakota.

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