Strengthening Tribal Families through Collaboration Across Systems
This is a FREE training event.
2025 CATTA Statewide
Date: Thursday, April 24, 2025
Time: 9:00AM - 12:00PM (PT)
Where: Online via Zoom
In honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month, the Center for Innovation and Resources (CIR) and the Greater Bay Area Child Abuse Prevention Council Coalition invite you to a special statewide training on best practices for working with tribal systems in California for child and family wellbeing.
This two-part virtual event will bring together experts to explore both systemic challenges and community-driven healing approaches. A panel of experts will share insights on best practices for working collaboratively with tribal systems to support children and families. A second session will share lived experience with the foster care system and approaches for healing.
Join us to deepen your understanding of the resources that tribal communities bring to keep families strong and healthy in California.
Part I: Collaborating Across Systems Panelists
Season Goodpasture is Maidu and Paiute and a member of the Susanville Rancheria in Northern California, and a former director of social services for the Pala Band of Mission Indians. Through her work at Pala, she developed an extensive social services program, a tribal foster care program, a child support program, and more. This led to Pala being the first tribe in California to be able to conduct their own criminal background checks which paved the way for all tribes to do so through the passing of SB1460.
Twyla Dolan, MSW, is a member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe in Mescalero, NM and currently resides in Phoenix, AZ where she serves as a Victim Specialist for the BIA Missing and Murdered Unit. In this position, Twyla provides critical support and advocacy to victims and families throughout Indian Country involving active Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) cases. Twyla’s professional experience includes direct service in the fields of early intervention, mental health, substance use disorders social services and serving victims of violent crime in the federal criminal justice system. Twyla’s passion is to assist and empower tribal communities through continued advocacy, engagement and partnership with tribal, federal, and state partners.
Kimberly Cluff, JD, became a member of the California Bar in 1998 and Kimberly has worked exclusively in the field of Indian law. Starting as a law clerk then attorney at California Indian Legal Services, Kimberly went into private practice as a partner at Forman&Associates. Kimberly then served as In-House General Counsel for the Morongo Band of Mission Indians before joining California Tribal Families Coalition as the Legal Director and also returning to graduate school at the Goldman School of Public Policy, U.C. Berkeley. Kimberly’s career has always focused on advocating for tribes and native non-profits, including advocacy and litigation connected to tribal economic development, Intergovernmental agreements, Indian child and family welfare, strengthening of tribal courts and tribal governance and development and protection of tribal infrastructure. Kimberly also extends her advocacy to state and federal legislative efforts, for example spearheading the California Tribal Customary Adoption Act and working with lawmakers to secure federal resources for Indian Country. Kimberly is admitted to practice in California and various tribal courts.
Part II: Healing the Child Within: A Personal Journey with Healing
Lenny Hayes is the founder of Tate Topa Consulting. He focuses on American Indian Historical and Intergenerational Trauma, as well as other types of traumas that affect native populations, the Two-Spirit/Native LGBTQ+ community, and the general population as a whole. He has extensive training and experience in mental and chemical health issues.
We are committed to accessibility. If you need any accommodations to fully participate in an event please contact Nelle at nelle.stanwood@cirinc.org or (707) 512-0957. Requests must be received by 4/17/2025.
CECs:
Participants may apply for Continuing Education Credits after the event. Course meets qualifications for 4 hour(s) of Continuing Education Credits for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (Provider #128590). The Center for Innovation and Resources, Inc. (CIR) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. CIR maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. CE Credits will be available after the event for a fee of $45. Certificates for CE Credits will be mailed to participants within two weeks following the event. If you would like to cancel your CE application or would like a refund, please contact alexa.stiles@cirinc.org
Funding:
Produced by the CATTA Center, a project of the Center for Innovation and Resources, Inc. with funding awarded by Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Victim Assistance Formula Grant Program (Formula Grant Program) and Child Sexual Abuse Prevention state funds (Grant Subaward number CA24002801 ) through the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (CalOES), in collaboration with the Greater Bay Are Child Abuse Prevention Council Coalition.
