The conference, Building Tribal Capacity To Meet Our Children's Needs, focused on skill-building for individuals working toward developing a more competent, child-friendly, and culturally specific coordinated response to the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of Indian children; and on promoting mentoring and networking among Tribal programs serving victimized Indian children. Conference participants discussed: (1) community response and responsibility to improve the reactions to child maltreatment; (2) wellness and maintaining balance; (3) legal issues and challenges in investigating and prosecuting child sexual abuse; (4) recognizing trauma in children; (5) the medical-legal examination and the Indian Health Service; (6) developing victim advocacy skills to help traumatized children; (7) developing child advocacy centers in Indian country and Native communities; (8) team-building; (9) overview of child sexual abuse investigations and offender typologies; (10) forensic interviews of child victims in tribal communities; (11) offender interviews; and (12) preventing burnout in the field of child maltreatment. References, resources