Seldovia Village Tribe Indian Child Welfare

The Indian Child Welfare Act was passed to protect the integrity of Indian and Native families and to help ensure that children who are placed in adoptive or foster care homes continue to live in their natural cultural environment - in other words, in Indian and Native homes.

One main ICWA program offered by the Seldovia Village Tribe is its Play Group. The Tribe provides an after-school activity center for children of all ages. Tribal and community members are offered this free of charge and may bring their children to Play Group 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Mondays through Fridays.

To learn more about SVT's involvement with ICWA, call Crystal Collier at (907) 234-7898 or send an email to pelvsaas@svt.org.

The Seldovia Village Tribe provides an ICWA Office to assist Alaskan Native/American Indian families in need. The Indian Child Welfare Act (passed in 1978) is a federal law that protects the best interest of Indian children and to promote the stability and security of Indian tribes and families by an establishment of minimum federal standards for the removal of Indian children from their families and the placement of such children in foster or adoptive homes which will reflect the unique values of Indian culture, and by providing for assistance to Indian tribes in the operation of child and family service programs.