Tribal D™ provides Indian services to Native American tribes with simple, effective decision-support solutions in achieving self-determination objectives. Our fully integrated, off-the-shelf software application (TribeVue™) allows tribal governments to better self-manage their vast responsibilities and resources. TribeVue integrates information, data and processes that ensure compliance and enable comprehensive reporting. Our cloud-hosted solutions are mobile ready and available on-demand.
Single-parent families often rely on child support payments to help make ends meet and provide economic stability for their families. In tribal communities, census reports show over 67% of Native American families have children under 18, and over 30% of Native American children lived with only one parent. Research has shown that children living in single-parent homes are more likely to be living at or below the poverty line.
Nationally, among states and tribes, government child support programs serve more than 16 million children. For every dollar spent on the enforcement of child support, benefiting families receive five dollars. Enforcing child support helps ease the economic burden that single-parent families feel and helps improve the quality of life and standard of living for members of the tribal nation.
Tribal child support enforcement programs improve a child’s quality of life and allow a tribe to create orders that are relevant to their culture. Children can better connect with their parent by establishing paternity, while their quality of life is increased with the maintenance of regular child support payments. Child support enforcement in tribal nations encourages parental accountability, supports child welfare, and supports the reduction of public financial responsibility for child support.
Federal funding for tribal child support began in 1996 with the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. This law gave Health and Human Services (HHS) the power to acknowledge and directly fund tribal child support programs,if the Native American tribe or tribal organization demonstrates that they have founded a “…tribal court system or a Court of Indian Offenses with the authority to establish paternity, establish, modify, and enforce support orders, and to enter support orders in accordance with child support guidelines established by such tribe or organization.” If a tribe meets this criteria, they qualify for federal aid to fund child support enforcement for their tribe. Click here for examples on how this law is benefiting tribal nations today.
Of the 566 federally recognized tribes, 59 of them have funded child support enforcement programs. Of these 59 tribes, only a small portion have fully or partially automated child support enforcement processes. Many single-parent families need the help of tribal governments to enforce child support payments for the welfare of their children, however this task can be daunting for a tribal government without the proper tools in place. Child support enforcement software automation reduces the man-hours needed to track the court orders and can increase the amount of collections that flow to families. It helps tribal governments efficiently enforce child support while empowering their communities.
Tribal D’s TribeVue® Child Support Enforcement (CSE) software application is a low-cost tribal automation alternative that delivers a fast start-up and a robust commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software system providing an integrated approach for optimizing tribal visibility of child support information. TribeVue minimizes the time spent on tribal child support enforcement management-related data and provides integration of data for non-custodial parents, custodial parents, children, orders, payments, TANF case links, and OSCE-75 reporting.
As part of the Tribal D® “Empower Tribal Communities” bundle, the TribeVue-CSE system provides software and office automation for supporting these efforts by tracking noncustodial parent location services, paternity establishment efforts, child support order enforcement actions, collection and distribution of child support payments. The system also provides referrals to other human service programs, empowering tribal governments and helping them attend to the needs of their communities.
For more information on any of TribeVue’s versatile software application models, please go to tribal-d.com. Tribal D’s mission is to help tribal governments effectively integrate, manage and track critical aspects of Native American tribal governance so self-determination objectives can be met.
The land that comprises “Indian country” holds a wealth of natural resources that are important to both the economic growth and culture of Native Americans. Without proper oversight and efficient use, the benefits that could be gained by using these natural resources are often lost or neglected. The management of Native American lands should be handled with great care. In order to optimize the various benefits of farming, land leasing, development and other economic opportunities.
Native Americans and their ensuing land rights have had a long and tumultuous history with the U.S. government, resulting in overall decreased land ownership for Native Americans. The General Allotment Act of 1887 authorized the U.S. government to divide Native American tribal land into allotments for Native American individuals and families. This division of ownership, or fractionation, over generations has diminished the utilization and economic benefit of the land. In some cases, a large majority of landowners receive $25 or less in land-related income. However, there is a wealth of resources available on Native American lands that can be tapped to increase the economic welfare and cultural development of those that own the land, if only the issue of fractional land ownership can be overcome.
The U.S. Department of the Interior established a Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations on December 17, 2012 that helps address the issue of fractional land ownership in tribal communities. The program has provided $1.9 billion in funding for tribes to buy the divided land interests from willing individual owners at fair market value, consolidating sizable amounts of land to tribal trust ownership. This consolidation has led to financial gains for individual tribal landowners and helped tribal nations benefit the reservation community by executing conservation programs and economic development projects for housing, community water supply, and cultural renewal.
Through November 15, 2015, over 1,480,937 acres have been purchased on tribal lands throughout the U.S., affecting 31,302 individuals. Click here to review the official 2015 Status Report on the Buy-Back Program released earlier this month.
With these new opportunities for tribal nations to increase land ownership, a significant need exists for tribes to efficiently manage new and existing land assets. The Tribal D™ TribeVue™ software system incorporates land management and tracking methodologies for use by tribal land departments in order to maximize economic and cultural development.
In the TribeVue – Land module, each landowner can be tracked and each allotment is identified with relevant attributes including owner, total acres, soil samples, farm-able and non-farmable acres, and more. Further, the related allotment GIS files, and other documents, can be stored and launched on demand. In TribeVue Leases, the tribe has a resource to manage lessees, lease expiration dates, and lease payments/revenue. For tribes that manage ranges, each range unit is tracked in TribeVue, including the livestock on each unit, along with the appropriate grazing and trespass permits.
For more information on any of TribeVue’s versatile software application models, please go to tribal-d.com. Tribal D’s mission is to help tribal governments effectively integrate, manage and track critical aspects of Native American tribal governance so self-determination objectives can be met.
When it comes to government funding and aid for Native American tribes, nothing is simple. After navigating the many complexities to obtain the needed funding, tribal governments face the multi-layered challenges to manage those financial resources efficiently.
Public Law 102-477, also known as the Indian Employment, Training, and Related Services Demonstration Act of 1992, enables federally recognized tribes and Alaska native entities to combine employment and training-related federal grant funds into a single plan with a single budget and a single reporting system. This law helps tribal nations in their goal of self-governance and self-determination. An integral part of these goals is to work efficiently at meeting the unique human services needs for all tribal members. However, many tribes become bogged down with data entry and reporting for the “477” law, taking up time and valuable resources. This is where Tribal D™ steps in to help with its proprietary resources
Tribal D has created software specifically designed to assist in American Indian benefits management by minimizing non-value-added activities for tribal human and social services intake and caseworkers. This software system, called TribeVue™, eliminates: 1) the problems caused when consolidating many grants into one fund; 2) the repetitive data entry and reporting required by the “477” law; and 3) many other administrative headaches. TribeVue™ enables tribes to be as efficient as possible with available funds.
Public Law 102-477 is permanent legislation and has no expiration date. It is designed to help tribes become more efficient with government grants and funding. While voluntary, there are distinct benefits for participation. Public Law 102-477 helps tribes consolidate funding for employment and training activities, and provides a better view of overall employment and training funding. The law helps tribal governments to ease some of the burden placed on administrative services as it relates to receiving and distributing those funds. Spending less of its resources on administrative costs empowers tribes to become more efficient and allows better use of that funding for its intended purposes.
The lead federal agency is the Office of Indian Energy & Economic Development within the Department of the Interior (DOI). Formula-funded programs in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Education are also involved. Public Law 102-477 embodies the ideas of self-governance and self-determination. It has proven successful for over 20 years and demonstrates how tribes can effectively consolidate limited funding to address the unique needs of their tribal members while accomplishing individual tribal goals.
Tribal D, with its TribeVue™ software, aids tribes in spending federally funded grants in the most efficient manner possible, while creating an easier path to collect, track and report on funding activities.
Single-parent families often rely on child support payments to help make ends meet and provide economic stability for their families. In tribal communities, census reports show over 67% of Native American families have children under 18, and over 30% of Native American children lived with only one parent. Research has shown that children living in single-parent homes are more likely to be living at or below the poverty line.
Nationally, among states and tribes, government child support programs serve more than 16 million children. For every dollar spent on the enforcement of child support, benefiting families receive five dollars. Enforcing child support helps ease the economic burden that single-parent families feel and helps improve the quality of life and standard of living for members of the tribal nation.
Tribal child support enforcement programs improve a child’s quality of life and allow a tribe to create orders that are relevant to their culture. Children can better connect with their parent by establishing paternity, while their quality of life is increased with the maintenance of regular child support payments. Child support enforcement in tribal nations encourages parental accountability, supports child welfare, and supports the reduction of public financial responsibility for child support.
Federal funding for tribal child support began in 1996 with the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. This law gave Health and Human Services (HHS) the power to acknowledge and directly fund tribal child support programs,if the Native American tribe or tribal organization demonstrates that they have founded a “…tribal court system or a Court of Indian Offenses with the authority to establish paternity, establish, modify, and enforce support orders, and to enter support orders in accordance with child support guidelines established by such tribe or organization.” If a tribe meets this criteria, they qualify for federal aid to fund child support enforcement for their tribe. Click here for examples on how this law is benefiting tribal nations today.
Of the 566 federally recognized tribes, 59 of them have funded child support enforcement programs. Of these 59 tribes, only a small portion have fully or partially automated child support enforcement processes. Many single-parent families need the help of tribal governments to enforce child support payments for the welfare of their children, however this task can be daunting for a tribal government without the proper tools in place. Child support enforcement software automation reduces the man-hours needed to track the court orders and can increase the amount of collections that flow to families. It helps tribal governments efficiently enforce child support while empowering their communities.
Tribal D’s TribeVue® Child Support Enforcement (CSE) software application is a low-cost tribal automation alternative that delivers a fast start-up and a robust commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software system providing an integrated approach for optimizing tribal visibility of child support information. TribeVue minimizes the time spent on tribal child support enforcement management-related data and provides integration of data for non-custodial parents, custodial parents, children, orders, payments, TANF case links, and OSCE-75 reporting.
As part of the Tribal D® “Empower Tribal Communities” bundle, the TribeVue-CSE system provides software and office automation for supporting these efforts by tracking noncustodial parent location services, paternity establishment efforts, child support order enforcement actions, collection and distribution of child support payments. The system also provides referrals to other human service programs, empowering tribal governments and helping them attend to the needs of their communities.
For more information on any of TribeVue’s versatile software application models, please go to tribal-d.com. Tribal D’s mission is to help tribal governments effectively integrate, manage and track critical aspects of Native American tribal governance so self-determination objectives can be met.
