Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma receives $54.4K Child Welfare Research Training or Demonstration grant from the Administration for Children and Families

Eastern shawnee background check and finger print program - Eastern Shawnee Tribe Of Oklahoma operates an indian child welfare (icw) department serving approximately 50 eastern shawnee families annually. Currently, anyone being considered as a placement for a child removed from the home must travel one to two hours to complete fingerprinting and background check and it sometimes takes two weeks for results to return. This is a huge barrier for placement of children. Eastern shawnee tribe icw will install a fingerprinting work station to serve the tribe’s out of home placement needs and will make the service available to the eight other tribes located in ottawa county, Oklahoma with the objective of completing fingerprinting and background checks the same day a placement option is located.