Oklahoma

An oral history project led by the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition is concluding in Tulsa, Oklahoma this month.

The U.S Department of Health and Human Services has announced new tribal home-visiting grant awards.

The Department of the Interior will soon release its historic final report on the devastation caused by U.S.-backed Indian boarding schools.

The Oklahoma Legislature has approved a program to pay and train lawyers for children and parents involved in child welfare cases.

A long-awaited online archive, put together by Native researchers, may help boarding school survivors find answers.

Pediatrician and director of Oklahoma’s child welfare agency, Deborah Shropshire, will now head the state’s Department of Human Services.

Oklahoma is looking for people from marginalized backgrounds who want to influence the state’s child welfare and juvenile justice systems.

In Oklahoma, if a sibling group of three kids is taken into foster care, there is about a one-in-three chance they will be split up. A few years ago, one of the state’s child welfare providers decided to do something about it.

Marcia Lowry, the crusading child welfare attorney, works out of an office on Hardscrabble Road. She didn’t name this leafy suburban New York lane, but it suits her reputation: The slew of big-ticket settlements she’s secured against large foster care systems made her one of the nation’s most respected, winning and – in some quarters – loathed attorneys for vulnerable youth.