Brig. Gen. Wayne Don, director of joint staff for the Alaska National Guard, gives a speech after being promoted from colonel to brigadier general at a ceremony in Wasilla, Alaska, Feb. 7, 2021. Don entered service in the U.S. Army in 1994, and served in the active duty Army until he transitioned to the Alaska Army National Guard in 2005. A member of the Cupig and Yupik tribes, Don is currently the highest-ranking Alaska Native in the Alaska National Guard. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Edward Eagerton)
One of the Alaska National Guard’s highest-ranking officers was arrested over the weekend in Anchorage and charged with domestic violence assault for the second time since November.
Wayne Don was promoted in 2021 to brigadier general in the Alaska National Guard and was in charge of the Guard’s joint staff. The Guard highlighted that he had become its highest-ranking Alaska Native member serving at the time.
In November, Anchorage police responded to a report of domestic violence at Don’s wife’s home. According to a charging document, Don’s wife told police they had argued, he was drinking and that he had grabbed her by the wrist and hair. Police saw a red mark on her wrist, found holes in a wall and a bedroom door, and smelled alcohol on him. Police arrested Don and charged him with misdemeanor assault for domestic violence and a misdemeanor for property damage.
In April, the parties made a deal. If Don pleaded no contest to the property damage charge, the prosecutors would drop the domestic violence assault charge. Don would also have to avoid contact with his wife, refrain from drinking alcohol for six months and complete a treatment program, attend counseling sessions monthly, and avoid any other criminal charges. If it had gone smoothly, he would have been sentenced in October.
It didn’t go smoothly. This past Sunday, police again arrested Don at his wife’s home. According to charges in that case, he was drinking and assaulted his wife again. He is charged with domestic violence assault and violating conditions of release.
The charges say police came because Don was threatening suicide and blaming his wife “for losing a career.”
Alaska National Guard spokesman Alan Brown said in an email that Don was removed from his authority and put on administrative status back in November, pending resolution of his initial charges. Brown said the Guard is cooperating with civilian authorities.
In Don’s role as director of the joint staff for the Alaska National Guard, he was responsible for communication and coordination between the head of the Alaska National Guard and staff and units of the Air and Army National Guard. The joint staff plans and coordinates response efforts during state disasters and joint military operations.
Brown said an investigation is also ongoing within the military. He said the vice chief of staff of the Army is responsible for handling that.
“We expect every member of the Alaska National Guard to live up to the highest standards of military service,” Brown wrote. “We will take immediate and appropriate action if any of our members is suspected of committing a crime, while ensuring their right to due process.”
Don’s attorney could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday. Online records show that Don posted a $300 bond Wednesday and is not in custody.
Don, 51, began his military career in 1994. His assignments included operations in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. He was previously chairman of the regional Calista Corp. board. He is also listed as chairman of the board of NIMA Corp., a village corporation for Nunivak Island, where he grew up. He’s been recognized with various leadership awards.
A group sings on Capitol steps for MMIW Awareness Day on May 5, 2022 in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by Paige Sparks/KTOO)
Friday is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day.
The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska is hosting a rally to demand that Alaska’s cases of missing and murdered people be taken seriously and investigated further.
Jeni Brown, who works with Tlingit and Haida’s Violence Against Women Task Force, said that like many Alaska Native people, it’s personal for her.
“I take this MMIP advocacy very seriously, not only because I have missing and or murdered people in my family, like this has been affecting me since I was 10,” she said. “And I’m 45.”
Brown said events like this are important because many people are still in denial about the problem. In 2016, the National Institute for Justice released a study that found that four in five Indigenous American women experienced violence in their lifetime.
“There’s a lot of people in Juneau, in our community, that think this doesn’t happen to us. This isn’t happening in our community. It is,” Brown said. “There’s racism alive and well in our community. There’s sexual assaults that happen in our community.”
And Brown said that while authorities don’t always take these cases seriously, it’s time that Juneau — as a community — does.
“Our people are disappearing, and nobody’s able to say anything about it. And I feel like now’s the time,” she said. “This is our time, this is our time to speak up. This is our time to make everybody aware that this stuff is happening.”
The rally starts at 5 p.m. on the Capitol steps with a lineup of guest speakers. Participants will then march to the Marine Park Pavilion.
The front of the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau is seen on Wednesday, April 12, 2023. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
An overloaded nonprofit that provides free legal help would be able to serve more Alaskans in need if legislation proposed by Sen. Forrest Dunbar, D-Anchorage, becomes law.
Senate Bill 104, discussed by the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, would direct 25% of the Alaska Court System’s filing fees to the Alaska Legal Services Corporation, up from 10% in an existing state law.
Dunbar, a licensed attorney, formerly worked for the agency on a variety of cases.
“They provide absolutely crucial legal services, free legal services, to those who can’t afford them. Things like family law, landlord-tenant (disputes); they are also the state’s largest provider of free legal services to survivors of domestic abuse and sexual assault,” Dunbar said.
One case near the end of his time working with the corporation stuck in his mind.
“I worked on a case where family members were trying to win custody of a little girl who had been abused almost to the point of death. And they were helping to try and basically save this little girl. And it remains — even though I did a very tiny bit of work on that case — it remains the most important legal work I think I’ve ever done,” he said.
While the Alaska Constitution guarantees a defense attorney to someone in a criminal charge, there’s no such guarantee in a civil lawsuit.
The corporation, founded in 1967, is a nonprofit intended to fill that gap and provide help to Alaskans who can’t afford it.
But, said the corporation’s executive director, Nikole Nelson, the gap is now so large that the corporation can’t fill it.
“This gap has now reached a crisis level because existing funding for Alaska Legal Services has not kept pace with community need. And this is really what SB 104 is meant to address,” she said.
“In our 12 regional offices, we may see mothers who have been abused in front of their children and who don’t have the financial means to leave the relationship,” Nelson said. “We have grandparents who may be caring for their grandchildren but really need help with operational documents so they can get their grandchildren enrolled in school or get the medical care that they need.”
“We may have a veteran who has been denied his VA benefits even though he earned them through service, but his disabilities (are) keeping him homebound and unable to work. And for all of these problems, there is a legal solution. But unlike in criminal cases … you don’t have a right to legal counsel in those, and this is where ALSC comes in.”
Patrick Reinhart, executive director of the Governor’s Council on Disabilities and Special Education, testified in March to the Senate Judiciary Committee that the corporation and the Disability Law Center of Alaska perform vital work in the state.
“We know that both organizations are struggling to keep qualified attorneys,” he said. “So anything we can do to support efforts for our beneficiary group to access civil legal services is critically important.”
The corporation receives donations and assistance from other groups, but state funding has declined dramatically. It now receives just 57% of the state funding it did in 1984, even as the population of potential clients has tripled, Nelson told the finance committee. That decrease doesn’t account for inflation.
Because of budget struggles, the corporation now turns away half of the cases that come to it, Nelson said.
“To me, it’s a travesty that these people aren’t being served,” said Sen. Click Bishop, R-Fairbanks.
If Senate Bill 104 passes the House and Senate and becomes law with the assent of Gov. Mike Dunleavy it would result in about $450,000 more funding for the corporation each year, the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development estimated. That’s an increase from the roughly $300,000 the corporation currently receives under the relevant state law.
“We can serve another 182 clients for every $100,000 that’s added to our budget,” Nelson said.
In 2018, the Legislature considered reserving 25% of the state’s court fees for the corporation but decided against it.
“Since the Legislature at that point didn’t know how much revenue that would garner … it was negotiated down to 10%, with a commitment that it would be revisited if it didn’t meet community need,” Nelson said.
“And so, we’re at the point now where we know the amount of revenue that’s generated at 10%, and it’s not sufficient to the community need,” she said.
Filing fees aren’t kept by the court system, said Nancy Meade, general counsel for the Alaska Court System. Instead, they go into the state’s general fund, where they can be spent as the Legislature and governor direct.
After hearing from Dunbar and Nelson, the finance committee set the bill aside for further discussion. No additional hearings have been scheduled.
The pregnancy-associated mortality rate in Southwest Alaska was much higher than the rate in Alaska overall. (Maternal Child Death Review Committee/Alaska Department of Health and Social Services)
Maternal deaths went up 40% nationwide in 2021. The rate also went up in Alaska.
Alaska has its own way of measuring maternal mortality, so comparisons to national rates are tricky. But in 2021, Alaska reported its highest number of pregnancy-associated deaths in the last decade — more than double the most recent five-year average.
Ness Verigin leads the Maternal Child Death Review program for the state. They called the increase a call to arms.
“We had a tragic number of maternal deaths and pregnancy associated deaths during that year,” Verigin said.
Twenty mothers died.
The Maternal Child Death Review looks at deaths that happen from the start of pregnancy until one year after a pregnancy ends. Verigin says that in Alaska, most of these deaths don’t happen during labor. Instead, they happen because of violence afterwards. More than half of maternal deaths in the last five years were linked to intimate partner violence – Alaska has some of the highest intimate partner violence rates in the nation.
“Pregnancy-associated deaths due to violence are what we’re really looking at, because that’s where we’re losing most maternal life,” Verigin said. “Even when we’re looking at deaths from overdose and suicide, we more often than not find a history of trauma and violence.”
There’s another factor that may have influenced the spike in maternal mortality in 2021: the COVID-19 pandemic. During Alaska’s delta wave, state physicians spoke out about how overcrowding and rationed care at hospitals had a devastating effect on the maternity ward. And national data shows an uptick in violence against women throughout the pandemic years.
Most maternal deaths in Alaska happen more than 42 days after delivery. Earlier this year, Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced a bill that would extend postpartum Medicaid coverage from sixty days to a full year. The bill would increase access to care for treatable illnesses, like postpartum depression.
The state and grassroots organizations are working to address the issue. Alaska Native women are disproportionately represented among maternal deaths. The Alaska Native Birthworkers Community is a volunteer-led non profit that offers birth and postpartum support to address the disparity.
Verigin also manages a new program that provides free doula support and culturally competent care to pregnant people.
“It’s kind of become the latest big thing: cultural doulas and doula support as maternal mortality prevention — and doula support as violence prevention,” they said.
The program’s aim is to prevent maternal deaths from violence and it expanded from its 2021 pilot program last year. Verigin says they can see that it’s working.
Correction: The graph’s caption has been updated to reflect that the rate of pregnancy-associated mortality in Southwest Alaska is higher than for the state as a whole, not the overall number of deaths in Southwest Alaska.
A view inside Courtroom C in the Dimond Courthouse in Juneau on March 22, 2023. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
Content warning: This article includes mentions of sexual assault and abuse that may be uncomfortable for some readers. Resources are available at the bottom of this post.
Former Juneau-area chiropractor Jeffrey Fultz was arraigned Wednesday after two more women accused him of assaulting them under the guise of medical treatment.
Superior Court Judge Daniel Schally denied requests to keep Fultz in Alaska until the case is decided.
Police arrested Fultz in 2021 on three charges of sexual assault, based on accusations that he had assaulted patients while he was a chiropractor for Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium.
More women came forward after his arrest. By July of 2021, he faced accusations from 12 former patients. Now that number is 14.
At his arraignment yesterday, Schally and Fultz’s attorney, Natasha Norris, said they believe it’s good for Fultz to be in Colorado, away from the women he allegedly assaulted. But three of his accusers disagreed, testifying that they are concerned that Fultz is out on bail and in another state.
Since 2021, some of Fultz’s accusers have been asking for him to be returned to Alaska.
“It’s about ensuring that not one more woman is harmed,” a woman that the courts are identifying as C.E.L. testified Wednesday. “His knowledge of systems and connections to power and resources has allowed him to continue to abuse women all over the nation.”
Schally said this was the first time he’d heard of any allegations towards Fultz in other places. But at a court hearing on July 12, 2021, then-Assistant District Attorney Jessalyn Gillum said she saw the same pattern.
“The concern that the state has is that the defendant has shown himself to be an individual that goes from Native community to Native community and seems to have a history of allegations such as this arise at multiple placements,” she said at the 2021 hearing.
And according to court documents, Fultz told Juneau police in 2021 that he’d been accused of improper touching at a previous job.
At the request of state prosecutor Bailey Woolfstead, Schally did order that Fultz be monitored through the Alaska Pretrial Enforcement Division, which will work with law enforcement in Colorado to make sure he isn’t practicing medicine.
“We do have a responsibility to the women in any community in which we allow Mr. Fultz to be,” Woolfstead said.
In an interview before the hearing, C.E.L. said she felt like a lack of monitoring in Colorado, along with Fultz’s ability to post $40,000 in bail, had allowed him to skirt consequences.
“He has put up a lot of money, which essentially affords him to continue to do harm without any oversight,” C.E.L. said.
Conditions Schally placed on Fultz in 2021 required that he not practice medicine or contact any of his accusers. He was also told to turn over his passport and continue living at his Durango home.
C.E.L. stressed that it’s against the accusers’ wishes for Fultz to remain in Colorado. She said it’s part of a broader pattern of the legal system not listening to assault survivors, especially Indigenous women.
“There’s so many larger systemic issues that make this whole process really difficult and re-traumatizing,” she said. “Our rates for prosecution are awful. Really, really, really awful.”
Fultz’s next readiness hearing is April 12. Last week, Gillum told KTOO that the number of witnesses in the case and other complicating factors mean that the trial likely will not happen soon.
In early 2021, the Indian Health Services established a hotline for callers to report suspected child abuse or sexual abuse by calling 1-855-SAFE-IHS (855-723-3447) or submitting a complaint online on the IHS.gov website. The hotline may be used to report any type of suspected child abuse within the IHS, or any type of sexual abuse regardless of the age of the victim. The person reporting by phone or online may remain anonymous.
Locally, people can call AWARE in Juneau at 907-586-1090.
Fireweed blooms in a field near the Brotherhood Bridge in Juneau on July 19, 2018. (Photo by David Purdy/KTOO)
Find more resources at the end of this story.
Alaska has some of the country’s highest rates of domestic violence. Nearly 20% of women in the region are clients at SAFE Bristol Bay annually. That’s according to the organization, which is the regional advocacy center and shelter for domestic violence and sexual assault victims.
Christina Love, a senior specialist with the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, shared some ways to recognize and address domestic violence.
Listen:
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Christina Love: Quyana, Gunalchéesh, thank you so much for having me. My name is Christina Love. My pronouns are she and her. My family’s originally from Egegik village. My grandparents are the Kellys. I was raised in Chitina. And today I live on the Áak’w T’aaḵu Kwáan of the Tlingit Nation, also known as Lingit Aaní, also known as Juneau, Alaska. I work at the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault as a senior specialist on intersectionality and trauma.
Izzy Ross: Thank you so much for joining me. I’d like to provide people with some basic points for recognizing domestic violence and helping people who are in those situations and also preventing it.
Love: It’s important that we understand the root cause of violence and then also what prevents that, but first we’ll start with identifying it.
Domestic violence is a pattern of coercive control and manipulative behavior. That can be physical, but doesn’t have to be physical for every relationship. The main part of it is power and control. It’s rooted in power and control. And there’s lots of different ways that people can enact this: Through emotional abuse, through physical abuse, through psychological abuse, through economic, through other relationships, like children. Any part of your life and the intimate details of who you are can be used to harm you. So that’s why it’s deeply unique to each individual and can be really difficult to identify.
Abuse can take different forms
Love: Some of the most common types of abuse that we hear about are emotional escalating into physical. For emotional abuse, that looks like putting people down, that looks like embarrassing them in public. That also looks like needing to know where they are all the time and not having trust in them.
What I’ve noticed is that some of those behaviors can be perceived as, “this is how people care.” But it’s important to understand that jealousy and controlling is not necessarily a sign that somebody deeply cares about you. When it’s more escalated, then it absolutely can be really dangerous.
We see a lot more technology abuse; somebody needing to have access to your phone, to your email, to your social media accounts, having the password to everything, being able to control all of those things.
Domestic violence can progress
Love: The thing about domestic violence is is that it doesn’t happen right away. I never hear about a relationship [where] right from the beginning, they were incredibly violent. Usually, there are these phases that these relationships go through, and the one that is most recognizable is the honeymoon phase.
So when you meet somebody and you have feelings for them, there’s all of these chemicals that fill our body that makes us feel really good. And even that can be weaponized. Another term for that is called “love bombing.” So love bombing is where you are giving somebody a lot of attention, a lot of affection. Maybe you’re showering them in gifts, but it is this overwhelming way of somebody connecting with another person.
These are the red flags that we really like to teach people about what a healthy relationship looks like. And then also some things that can feel really good, but that we should really watch out for.
For most people who are perpetrating abuse, these become their own patterns in relationships. And like all violence, it’s a learned behavior. So the really beautiful thing about that is that we can unlearn these. We can heal. We can heal from the violence that we have experienced. We can also heal from violence that we have participated in, that we have perpetuated.
Signs of emotional violence
Love: Some of the things I think that I would tell people as far as emotional violence goes, is that just to be acutely aware of how you feel in people’s presence, does your partner make you feel free? Do you feel good? Do you feel lifted up? Do you feel supported? And to not ignore those.
When we try and communicate our needs, what we also see in domestic violence is a lot of gaslighting: “No, that’s not what happened. That isn’t my experience of it.” Or, “You made me do this. I wouldn’t do this if it wasn’t because of this or this or this.” And it’s important that we understand that violence is never our fault.
As those things start to escalate, a really important part of my job is helping people understand that alcohol and drug use does not cause domestic violence, that those core beliefs about our partners — that entitlement, that privilege — that comes from something else. Alcohol and drugs make those situations a lot worse. A lot of people think that it causes it because they are so closely connected. So everybody not being able to access resources leads to using substances to end their own suffering. But in the case of domestic violence, when we see those two things happening at the same time, we see increased lethality and increased injuries. So that’s the connection there.
It’s really important that we shift our perspective about why and how people come to this place when we stop asking questions about why they can’t leave and start asking questions about why people who are abusing other people are doing that, why, why are they harming them and placing the blame where it belongs, because the longer the time goes on, and the more abuse that happens It always escalates.
So it’s important that everyone is able to identify what healthy relationships are. And for people who are in unhealthy relationships, that that can’t leave that we ensure that they have access to safety – to safety planning and to other relationships that can save their life. When somebody tells us that these are the things that they’re experiencing, that we believe them and that all of us know what resources we can access.
Ross: There are a lot of different resources out there. Locally in Dillingham we have SAFE. There’s also the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault which has a lot of information. The National Domestic Violence Hotline is also available for folks to call. What can people expect when they access these resources? What does that process look like?
Love: Let’s say that you yourself are somebody who is experiencing this type of harm. First of all, I want you to know that there’s nothing that you could have ever done to deserve this, nothing, that it is not your fault at all. And whatever your life looks like, there is life on the other side of this. So however low you feel, however hopeless, or helpless, or powerless you feel, your sense of identity, all those things, they do come back. They come back.
It can be really difficult to imagine what it would look like to be free. Especially if you’ve tried to leave many times, or I think the what’s really difficult for people to understand is when you deeply love someone and your life is so interconnected with them, and they harm you, it’s not something that our brain can even fathom.
For myself and for a lot of survivors, it actually becomes compartmentalized that you have this life with them. And then there’s also this harm. Our brain cannot bring them together. Like it’s a really deeply confusing thing, especially if there’s mental abuse, anybody who has a mental health issue, or anybody who has survived trauma. So being physically harmed, being emotionally harmed is a type of trauma. And that leads to all kinds of really confusing ways that our brain and our bodies keep us alive. One of those is disassociating or being in denial. So if you if you are encountering somebody and it’s very clear to you that they’re in a place that they’re not safe but they’re not acknowledging it, just know that that’s the type of protection.
Where to get help
Love: If you are somebody who’s experiencing this, I want you to know that there are really incredible people who will work with you. And if you want to know what that help looks like, I want to walk you through that.
So you’re going to get on the phone with somebody through this hotline through your local SAFE with an advocate. And they’re going to listen and it’s completely confidential.
An advocate is a person who by law has very similar confidentiality as, as attorney client privileges. If I’m your advocate and you call me, I can’t be subpoenaed. I can’t tell anybody about anything that we’ve talked about. And this is really important for our rural communities where everybody knows everybody; we need to know that we’re going to be safe. We need to be able to build trust. Because our lives literally depend on it.
So let’s say you call me. I’m going to walk you through who I am and what my role is for you. I’m going to ask you if you’re safe in the moment. And I’m going to get an idea of your situation. I want to know really the chances of lethality, so I’m going to ask you a lot of different questions.
I’m using “he” because we see a lot more violence against women. And that’s a whole other conversation, we’ll see a lot more violence against Alaska Native people. And that’s a whole other conversation. For this purpose, I’m going to be using those pronouns.
I’m going to ask questions like, “Has he ever bit you? Has he ever strangled you?” I’m going to be asking if he’s ever harmed animals. All of those things lead to higher lethality lead to a higher chance of being murdered. So I’m going to ask you those kinds of questions and I’m gonna get an idea of how safe you are, what resources you have in your house, if he has access to your phone, if he has access to your email, if he has access to other relationships.
And also what you want to do. What are you wanting to do? Are you wanting to leave? We know that for people who are in these relationships, it takes about an average of nine times unless you have a disability, and that includes substance use and mental health, for people to try and leave.
That means that we say we are going to leave, and then they convince us to come back or they bring us back and it isn’t safe enough to leave. Or we’re still holding hope that they could make changes, that they are going to get help in one way or another, or they promised to do things differently. And that is a cycle that we see.
I might walk you through that cycle, I might go over the power and control wheel where I list off all the different ways that harm can be caused in a relationship. So I’ll name financial abuse and all the different ways to just you have control of your the bank account of the credit cards?
Emotional abuse, you know, we talked about that early on? Does he put you down? Does he embarrass you? Does he tell you that you’re fat, that you’re stupid, that you can’t do this or that, is there a lot of yelling? Is there a lot of manipulation?
I’ll go over coercion, I’ll talk about substance use, I need to know if substance use is a part of this, because it helps me understand. Also, maybe if you need Narcan, I want you to be safe in so many different ways, not just in this relationship, but also if that’s something that you’re struggling with, and we’re going to talk about that.
I want you to know that there’s no judgment here at all. My job is to keep you alive. My job is that you feel empowered, that you have somebody that you can talk to that you trust that is not ever going to tell anything about your situation.
Creating a plan
Love: Then we’ll get to creating a plan. So if there is violence and you can’t leave, then we want to know if there’s firearms in the house. I’ll talk to you about how to protect your head and your face, so curling up into a ball in the corner so that your limbs are protecting your head in your fac in the event that you can’t leave, in the event that things escalate.
How to protect your children and then also what the laws are. So if you can’t get out but there are children there, then you face the likelihood of protective services coming in and removing the children.
I have access to information and I want to make sure that you are well aware of everything, and that you know what your resources are. And together we’ll make a plan that fits you where you’re at. And it’s through those options and those resources that people really feel empowered. This is something that anybody can do at any time. So I’m trained, there’s lots of other advocates locally and nationally that are trained in this. This is something that all loved ones can do, that we really practice, listening to people and not being judgmental, and knowing that the first person that people tell is so important. That people stay in these relationships because of shame, because of isolation. And that’s how we break it. We break shame by being the kind of people that people can trust.
SAFE offers confidential help through its Dillingham and village advocates.
SAFE is Bristol Bay’s shelter and advocacy agency for domestic violence and sexual assault victims. It’s based in Dillingham and also serves surrounding communities. The primary mission of SAFE is to provide immediate safety for victims of domestic violence and/or sexual assault, including safe shelter and emergency transportation.
StrongHearts Native Helpline is a 24/7 safe, confidential and anonymous domestic and sexual violence helpline for Native Americans and Alaska Natives, offering culturally-appropriate support and advocacy.
National Domestic Violence Hotline https://www.thehotline.org/
1-800-799-SAFE (7233) and 1-800-787-3224.
The hotline provides essential tools and support to help survivors of domestic violence so they can live their lives free of abuse. Contacts to The Hotline can expect highly-trained, expert advocates to offer free, confidential, and compassionate support, crisis intervention information, education, and referral services in over 200 languages.
The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, Inc. (NIWRC) is a Native-led nonprofit organization dedicated to ending violence against Native women and children. The NIWRC provides national leadership in ending gender-based violence in tribal communities by lifting up the collective voices of grassroots advocates and offering culturally grounded resources, technical assistance and training, and policy development to strengthen tribal sovereignty.
Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault https://andvsa.org/
ANDVSA works to be a collective voice for victims and survivors and to support those agencies and communities working to prevent and eliminate domestic and sexual violence.
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium’s website Iknowmine.org has resources for sexual health.
AWARE https://awareak.org/ Local Crisis Line (907)586-1090 Toll Free Crisis Line 1(800)478-1090
AWARE provides comprehensive intervention services, as well as outreach, education, and primary prevention programs for domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse. We invite you to learn more about our services and how we can support you, your friends, your loved ones, or your community.
Get in touch with the author at izzy@kdlg.org or 907-842-2200.
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