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- Biographical profile for Wildacres Leadership Initiative
Lana Dial is an active member of the Lumbee Tribe. She is a native of Hoke County, North Carolina, and is the first born of five children, having one brother and three sisters. She holds a BA in English, Master of Public Health in Nutrition and Master of Science degree in Maternal Child Health and Program Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She retired from the Administrative Office of the Courts (within the Judicial branch of state government) January 2012 where since 1995 she was responsible for directing all aspects of the Foster Care and Adoption Court Program. Recent honors include being awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine (January 2012) and United Tribes' "Distinguished Service Award to the Indian Community (March 2012).
Lana has lived in the Triangle area of North Carolina since 1987, an area with one of the largest Native American populations in the state. She demonstrates her on-going commitment to peaceful and respectful human relations and expanded opportunities for all by serving as a member of the NC Commission of Indian Affairs' Indian Child Welfare Committee, volunteer with AARP NC’s Minority Outreach Program , president of the Triangle Native American Society and UNC-CH’s Alumni Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity; on the boards and advisory committees of several not-for-profit organizations such as the Martin Luther King Resource Center, Triangle Interfaith Alliance and Wildacres Leadership Initiative.
- Lana Dial interview with Bill Jenkins, 2016
- Letter: Lana T. Dial: Transparency for all
News & Observer, online March 2015
- LinkedIn profile
- NC Court Improvement Project (see Appendix, page nos. 100-102)
Lana T. Dial, Project Coordinator
Child Protection Proceedings in North Carolina Juvenile Courts, July 1996
The North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) convened a multidisciplinary Advisory Committee including district court judges, foster parents, parent and child advocates, court clerks, attorneys and representatives from the AOC, Guardian ad Litem (GAL) and Juvenile Services Divisions, Division of Social Services (DSS), and the Institute of Government. The AOC prepared the required analysis of state statutes and contracted with the Research Triangle Institute to conduct a comprehensive survey of juvenile justice system users and to prepare an appraisal of the information that is available to court and child welfare officials with regard to foster care and adoption cases.
- Opal Mann Green Engagement and Scholarship Award
In 2013, the Center for Family and Community Engagement was honored with the Opal Mann Green Engagement and Scholarship Award, which recognizes the contributions of the center and its partners to supporting safe, healthy, and productive families and communities and to generating societally relevant scholarship. Lana Dial was honored for her work with the NC Standing Committee on Indian Child Welfare.