Services and Stability Committee

Purpose:

In order to keep Native children out of child protective services and/or to safely return them to stable families, South Dakota needs a range of effective child and family services and supports. Therefore, the Collaborative Hocoka (Circle):

· regularly assesses the adequacy of the service array in the seven regions, through the regional collaboratives;

· assesses the accessibility of child and family services and supports in terms of geography, culture, and language;

· assists tribes in assessing their own service arrays as requested;

· promotes the sharing of resources; and

· addresses funding issues, including IV-E contracts, required infrastructure for IV-E contracting, staffing, lack of service providers, and funding for tribal courts.

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