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Systems Change Process & Breaking Out of the Box

Systems Change Process & Breaking Out of the Box. Deb Painte, NATI Joseph Walker, NATI. TRIBAL PERSPECTIVE. National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA), Overview of Relational World View

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Systems Change Process & Breaking Out of the Box

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  1. Systems Change Process & Breaking Out of the Box Deb Painte, NATI Joseph Walker, NATI

  2. TRIBAL PERSPECTIVE • National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA), Overview of Relational World View • Originally presented by Terry Cross, NICWA at the Western Pacific CWIC Regional Forum, San Francisco, March 2009 • (slide excerpts used with permission)

  3. Linear WorldviewSocial Work/Medical Model Cause gEffect gNew CausegNew Effect Social History g Presenting Problem g Assessment g Treatment g Outcome

  4. Context Mind Body Spirit Relational WorldviewNative and Tribal Thought BALANCE

  5. Relational WorldviewNative and Tribal Thought • Fluid, cyclical view of time • Each aspect of life is related • Services aim to restore balance • Interventions may not be directed at “symptoms” • Underlying question is “how?”

  6. From Individual to Organization • The model of balance can be applied to organizations and communities. • Each element of the individual model has a parallel in an organization. • This is the basis for NICWA’s approach to agency climate.

  7. Environment Infrastructure Mission Resources Relational WorldviewOrganizational Level Policies/Procedures Physical Mgmt. Structure Economic Personnel Mgmt. Political Fiscal Mgmt. Service Design Social Strategic Plans Mandate Human Beings Org. Spirit Leadership Values “Champions” Purpose Information Vision Funding Mission Coalitions

  8. Relational World View Theory of Change • Change is a constant, inevitable, cyclical, and dynamic part of the human experience that occurs in natural, predictable patterns and can be facilitated to promote desired and measurable outcomes.

  9. RWV-Based Practice • A change agent joins with the natural forces, and with purposeful intent, impacts the quadrants to restore balance and promote harmony. • Interventions do not necessarily target symptoms but rather impact balance and facilitate harmony, and are frequently designed to impact multiple quadrants. • Change can be measured by observing key indicators of balance and harmony and by recording change across time in relationship to the intervention(s).

  10. Environment Infrastructure Mission Resources Essential Elements for Systems Change • Financing • Policy • Standards of Practice • Data • Accountability • Dependability of • Institutions • Partnerships • Communication Needs Community Readiness Strengths Political will/urgency External Relationships Values Shared Vision Cultural Integrity Sovereignty/GovernanceRespect for ancestral wisdom Alignment of principles Leadership Family and youth voice Staffing Training/TA Vertical buy-in Funding

  11. Change Processes • Create a sense of urgency • Core leadership team • Broad participatory planning • Shared vision and strategy • Leadership empowering others • Vertical buy-in • Short term wins and persistence • Sustainability Adapted from Kotter, 1997

  12. Other tribal considerations • Impact of Historical Trauma, Intergenerational Grief & Secondary Trauma on Tribal Systems • Need to understand how this may impact your systems change process

  13. Historical Trauma Trauma upon trauma that occurs in history to a specific group of people causing emotional, mental and spiritual* wounding both during their lives and in the generations that follow. 1-8

  14. Intergenerational Grief Grief that is passed down from the generation experiencing the trauma to their children (the next generation) even though they may not be aware of or have direct experience of the actual traumatic events. 1-9

  15. Definitions • Secondary Trauma – “a cluster of symptoms nearly identical to PTSD which results from the stress of working with or intimately knowing somebody who has been traumatized or is suffering. “ (Perron & Hiltz, 2006, p. 217) • Secondary Trauma Stress – “an acute stress reaction to a traumatic event experienced indirectly. (Phipps & Byrne, 2003, p. 139)

  16. Breaking Out of the Box • Practice Model and Standards of the Lakota OyateWakanyejaOwcakiyapi (LOWO) Agency, a tribally chartered child welfare agency on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. • See MPCWIC Toolkit

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