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Kathy LaPlante is a member of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma. She currently teaches in the Master of Social Work program at the University of South Dakota in the areas of Child Welfare, Social Work Practice with Native American Populations, Diversity and Social Justice in Rural and Urban Communities, Advanced Social Policy and Human Behavior in the Social Environment. In recent years, Kathy contributed to an edited book chapter for the APA on the disproportionality of Native American children in the child welfare system drawing from her work in teaching and public child welfare. Kathy serves as the Program Coordinator for Native Students in Health Sciences where she is working collaboratively to develop a sustainable Native American Health Science program.
Indigenous Social Work Practice
Indian Child Welfare
Diversity and Social Justice and the Practice of Social Work
Trauma Informed Social Work with Children and Families in the Child Welfare System
The Indian Child Welfare Act: A specialized area of social work practice
The cultural identity of American Indian foster youth, foster care experiences, and emancipation outcomes
Decolonization of Social Work Practice - Indigenous research methods, culturally informed Indigenous social work practice in social work curricula
Retention of Indigenous social work students in Higher Education
