Calricaraq, translated "Healthy Living", is a culturally-based program utilizing Yup'ik culture, values, and traditions to address health and behavioral health issues from a holistic, Indigenous approach. This 1.5-day training helps us to understand what Calricaraq is so that we can incorporate the Indigenous approach and also understand the people that we are providing services to. Participants will understand the philosophy ...
The Alliance: United to prevent alcohol misuse and promote community wellness meets monthly to engage with members, provide updates, gather feedback on proposals, and support the various aspects of our current work. These meetings are open. Please request a link to the virtual meeting by emailing Alliance coordinator, Jess Limbird at jlimbird@recoveralaska.org.
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) Substance Misuse and HIV/STD Prevention programs host free virtual gatherings to discuss harm reduction strategies and resources in Alaska. Our guest speakers are Alaska-based experts in the field of harm reduction. The goal of these trainings is to support, inspire and learn from one another to increase the well-being of individuals in our ...
The South African concept Ubuntu means "I am because We are." This concept speaks about the inherited interconnected thread that binds the Black community together. It is often-unrecognized natural Peer Support that goes unnoticed and uncompensated. Join Mental Health American (MHA) as we discuss peer support from a critical lens that centers the agency and inherited value of the Black ...
This series, developed by the Alaska Center for Resource Families and the Alaska Center for Children and Adults will host a new online training, FASD Across the Lifespan. Funded by the AK DHSS FASD program and the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, the 7-part series features FASD content specialists from across Alaska. Though the content will center the needs of ...
Alaska Wellness Coalition envisions communities throughout Alaska where individuals thrive in an environment that supports healthy choices. Their membership is diverse, including Alaskans working in public health, positive youth development, the recovery community, social services, Alaska Native tribal Health, and community development. Individuals who would like to be connected into the Alaska Wellness Coalition are invited to attend the open ...
Calricaraq, translated "Healthy Living", is a culturally-based program utilizing Yup'ik culture, values, and traditions to address health and behavioral health issues from a holistic, Indigenous approach. This 1.5-day training helps us to understand what Calricaraq is so that we can incorporate the Indigenous approach and also understand the people that we are providing services to. Participants will understand the philosophy ...
The Alliance: United to prevent alcohol misuse and promote community wellness meets monthly to engage with members, provide updates, gather feedback on proposals, and support the various aspects of our current work. These meetings are open. Please request a link to the virtual meeting by emailing Alliance coordinator, Jess Limbird at jlimbird@recoveralaska.org.
The Adult Leadership Committee (ALC) of FASD Changemakers has done it again! Following the official publication* of their Lay of the Land Survey #1 which focused on the health of 500+ adults with a diagnosis of FASD, they have now completed a 350+ question Lay of the Land Survey #2: What Really Matters - Life as We Live It of 450 adults with FASD. ...
This free workshop will explore themes of healing, fierce vulnerability, and transformative justice in order to build community and strengthen relationship among Alaska's youth organizers. It will also provide an introduction to Kingian and Gandhian nonviolence and skill-building around conflict resolution. Presenters include: -Sandra Bass, who has been engaged in social justice facilitation, training, practice, and scholarship for over 25 ...