Oklahoma Indian Child Welfare Association, Incorporated
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University, and a Masters in Social Work from the University of Alabama.
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Griffith worked in the North Carolina and Alabama child welfare systems and became
Executive Director of PACT, a pioneer child abuse prevention agency she helped to found.
She has also served on the State Board of the Alabama Department of Human Resources.
She is the President of Red Clay & Vinegar LLP and the author of Red Clay and Vinegar:
Looking at Family through the eyes of a Southern Child and the co-author of The Unkindest
Cut - The Emotional Maltreatment of Children.
Drum Group: Osage Singers
Closing Prayer: Chief John Red Eagle, Osage Nation
Keynote Speaker: Naomi Haines Griffith
OKLAHOMA INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION, INC. P.O. Box 1274 Shawnee, OK 74802-1274 oicwa@yahoo.com
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Color Guard: Riverside Indian School
"Remember that your children are not your own, but are lent to you by the Creator" Mohawk
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Naomi Haines Griffith is a national speaker and consultant on child
welfare issues, speaking at conferences throughout the United States and
Canada. A well-known storyteller and family systems specialist, she uses
humor and her own experiences to challenge and inspire audiences in
business, education, juvenile justice, mental health, child abuse prevention,
and family violence systems. Griffith is a true Southerner, having grown up
in Alabama and Mississippi. She holds a BS from the
University of North Alabama, an MA from George Peabody College of
Vanderbilt
Oklahoma State Department of Health
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Child Abuse
Training and
Coordination Program
Closing Comments: Sue Settles, Chief, Division of Human Services,
Office of Indian Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs