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Advocates tell Assembly foster‑care system is a pipeline to the MMIP crisis; call for ICWA enforcement and tribal funding
Summary
Advocates and legal experts told the Assembly Select Committee that Native children are overrepresented in foster care and that children and parents who enter the child-welfare system are more likely to become MMIP cases; they urged systemic funding for tribal response capacity, better ICWA implementation, and stronger cross‑agency accountability and training.
A third panel at the Assembly's MMIP hearing tied the missing-and-murdered crisis to overrepresentation of Native youth in the foster-care system and urged systemic fixes—stable funding to tribes, better ICWA implementation and more rigorous accountability for social‑work and law‑enforcement practice.
“Native children in California are placed in foster care at approximately 4 times the rate of other children,” a Morning Star representative told the committee, adding that nearly half of Native children experience some…
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