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NATIVE AMERICAN SERVICES TRACK
NATIVE AMERICAN INSTITUTE #1 1:30 PM THURSDAY • DAYTONA 1-2
Leading Systems Change: Working Together to Protect Children and Strengthen Families
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. To describe strategies for improving tribal-state collaboration
2. How to implement concrete steps for developing tribal home-based services
3. To identify the key components for implementing system change in Alaska
4. How to engage and partner with stakeholders, including youth in a culturally sensitive manner
5. How to infuse data into the decision making process
6. To explain different leadership styles and approaches for building leadership capacity
Transforming systems is a complex and dynamic process. This Institute will focus on strategies for achieving complex
system reform, based on experience in the State of Alaska to improve tribal-state collaboration and to reduce the
disproportionate placement of Alaska Native youth in out-of-home placements.
Faculty will share the key considerations for implementing complex systems reform across multiple tribal and state
stakeholders and implications for building systems of care. This approach to systems change provides strategies for
building leadership, shared vision, stakeholder engagement, organizational capacity, and leveraging the political
environment to transform systems. The session will emphasize the importance of engaging in challenging conversations,
empowering those who have a stake in achieving the vision, and creating new alliances to join in the journey. Faculty
will also share strategies for building systems of care in tribal communities to reduce the need for out-of-home
placement and strengthen tribal home-based services.
Specific topics to be covered include:
• Tribal home-based service model
• Youth engagement model and use of youth voice
• Use of data in the system change process
• Theory of system change process and application
• Leadership development
The presenters will share a video that captures tribal and state stakeholder perspectives on the systems change process.
Small group discussions will allow time for understanding the system of care home-based service model and for
participation in youth-guided activities to promote youth participation in system change efforts. The Institute will
feature perspectives of a child welfare director, the executive director of the National Indian Child Welfare Association,
an evaluator, and a tribal youth advocate from Alaska.
MODERATOR/PRESENTER: Marketa Garner Walters, Project Director, Western and Pacific Child Welfare
Implementation Center (WPIC), American Institutes for Research, Baton Rouge, LA
Mary Armstrong, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director, Division of State and Local Support, Department of Child
and Family Studies, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences,
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Terry Cross, M.S.W., A.C.S.W., L.C.S.W., Executive Director, National Indian Child Welfare Association, Portland, OR
Shilo Valle, Youth Advocate, Southeast Representative, Facing Foster Care in Alaska, Juneau, AK
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