Our Mission
First Nations Repatriation Institute is dedicated to education, scholarship, and advocacy.
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Education
Provide education for social workers and others in the community regarding First Nations people, needs, and risks.
Incorporate and strengthen undergraduate and graduate content relevant to First Nations people in the social work curriculum, including history, trauma, disenfranchised grief, identity, healing, and reconciliation.
Participate in and host regional and national Reconciliation conferences
Host the first National Repatriation Forum bringing together legal professionals, social work professionals, educators, researchers to share ideas and identify research needs for First Nations Repatriation
Develop a certificate program for practitioners providing post-adoption services for Indigenous people.
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Scholarship
Develop a research agenda for graduate student research.
Present our work at local, state, national, and international conferences.
Publish our work in peer-reviewed journals.
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Advocacy
Create a clearinghouse and repository of local and national psychosocial, spiritual and legal resources for First Nations individuals, family, community, and the practitioners who serve them.
Collaborate with other organizations to promote Truth, Healing, and Reconciliation
Formal making amends including documentation and evaluation of the proceedings
Influence public policy related to First Nations child welfare issues
Create educational DVDs on the history of child removal, the impact on extended families and Indian Nations, and the process of Truth, Healing, and Reconciliation.
Why We Do It
FNRI receives phone calls and emails from across the United States and internationally. These adult adoptees, fostered individuals and birth relatives are seeking assistance on how to access their birth records, and find their relatives.
Why We Do It
FNRI receives phone calls and emails from across the United States and internationally. These adult adoptees, fostered individuals and birth relatives are seeking assistance on how to access their birth records, and find their relatives.
Why We Do It
FNRI receives phone calls and emails from across the United States and internationally. These adult adoptees, fostered individuals and birth relatives are seeking assistance on how to access their birth records, and find their relatives.