On this week’s podcast we discuss a scandal that sparked new mandated reporting laws, the Biden administration’s kinship care ideas, and a new adoption information system in Ireland. Shannon Smith of Minnesota’s ICWA Law Center joins us to talk about the active efforts provision of the Indian Child Welfare Act something she sees in play everyday in one of America’s only ICWA courts. Reading RoomMandatory Reporting Was Supposed to Stop Severe Child Abuse. It Punishes Poor Families Instead.https://nbcnews.to/3yLi08pCPS Workers Search Millions of Homes a Year. A Mom Who Resisted Paid a Price.https://nbcnews.to/3TJcyeDCan ‘Kinship Care’ Help the Child Welfare System? The White House Wants to Tryhttps://nyti.ms/3yKDJNVBiden Proposes Major Spending Shifts to Prioritize Kin, Foster Care Preventionhttps://bit.ly/3iL0U26Prioritizing Kinship Care with Kim Cliftonhttps://bit.ly/3EvWFSb Irish Leader Apologizes for Adoptions That ‘Robbed Children’ of Their Identityhttps://nyti.ms/3VBAhijIreland Opens Decades of Secret Records to Adopteeshttps://nyti.ms/3VyrtdiA Seattle Agency Digs Deep into Unanswered Questions About Past Adoption Practices, and its Obligations to Familieshttps://bit.ly/30I2KLOMinneapolis Lawyers Rely on ‘Gold Standard’ Law to Keep Native American Families Togetherhttps://bit.ly/2QwINmeSupreme Court Set to Consider Fate Of Indian Child Welfare Act in Novemberhttps://bit.ly/3BIVPlC

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