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Reply to "Seeking Information on Tribal Trauma-Informed Initiatives"

Hi Dan, We spoke on the phone about some of this, and I'd probably be able to provide a lot more information and contacts in a longer conversation, but here are a few things happening in Alaska:

The statewide network (which, like Montana, has also been a MARC community, the RWJ-funded project you mentioned), the Alaska Resilience Initiative, has Alaska Native leadership and guidance at all levels: the co-chairs of our steering committee are Elizabeth Medicine Crow (Tlingit & Haida) and Lisa Wade (Ahtna Athabascan), and there are AN steering committee members, and AN workgroup members and co-chairs. Additionally, we sought guidance from a gathering of Alaska Native and Native American trauma experts that kicked off the initiative, etc. in May 2016, and you can read about that here, and continue to do so with individual AN healers, speakers, etc.. 

One of the projects the Alaska Resilience Initiative is taking on is an Alaska Native 101 video, which would include historical trauma. We've identified this as a key priority for addressing trauma and racism, and are seeking funding for it. 

Many tribes, regional tribal health and social service organizations, tribal consulting businesses and leadership programs, tribal non-profits, etc. throughout Alaska are incorporating the NEAR sciences and ancestral understandings of trauma and resilience into their work. This is an example of one powerful Yup'ik woman doing this work in a very ancestral way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAw5sgYWaOQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4yNbVdiVMI

This is another healer and trainer in Alaska, Tsimshean elder Doug Modig: 

https://vimeo.com/117524967

This is the leadership training program of Elsie Boudreau, Yup'ik social worker and survivor who is on my steering committee and a Board member of the Alaska Children's Trust. She is amazing: http://www.arcticwinds.org/

 

And @Clare Reidy can help find the link to the webinar in which Lisa Wade presented on the Chickaloon Village Tribal School and how they incorporate trauma-informed practices and culture. 

 

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