Housing and Homelessness

The Juneau World Affairs Council presents “The Syrian Refugee Crisis: From the Front Lines to the Headlines” with Eric Kocher. Kocher is an EMT and attorney from Haines who’s spent six months in Greece with medical and legal teams helping Syrian refugees who have fled war.

A forum with people from the documentary “The Flying University” and experts in the field. The short film reveals a university class inside Juneau’s Lemon Creek Correctional Center that is led by Sol Neely, an English professor at the University of Alaska Southeast. Click here to watch the full documentary Interviews with inmates, former inmates,…

The Alaska Prisoner Reentry Initiative (AK PRI) is a first step in creating a process, both inside and outside, to help returning Alaska prisoners reengage in their home communities. We know that most Alaska inmates will return to their home communities at some time—DOC is working to develop clear reentry plans for each inmate while…

The Steamdriven Thrift Shop is a for-profit business that trains and employs youth in the Mat-Su Valley as well as provides profits to be used for My House case management services. This session will discuss the Spirit of Youth award-winning business, how it was funded and became profitable.  

The Alaska Council on the Homeless meets twice per year to fulfill its mission as a public policy forum for recommendations on the use of state and federal resources to address homelessness. These efforts are outlined in the States’ Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness. This plan sets out annual, five year and ten year…