Tribal Listening Session Report

The Nebraska Indian Child Welfare Coalition (NICWC), a subrecipient on NE’s grant, conducted an assessment of the current state of human trafficking in tribal communities via listening sessions with each of the four tribes in Nebraska: The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and Iowa, the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, the Santee Sioux Nation, and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. The report provides a summary of the feedback from each session, identifying current strategies tribes use to address and respond to trafficking, noting key needs and barriers tribes are facing, and summarizes next steps for how the project can support tribes in their efforts to improve identification and response.