The NAACP's Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics is a yearlong achievement program designed to recruit, stimulate, and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African-American high school students.
Alaska ICE partners with schools and communities, building positive youth-adult relationships and healthier school and community climates to help kids achieve academic and social success.
Interview with CIRI historian and author of the book Growing Up Native in Alaska, plus a selection of interviews from the book. Page from LitSite Alaska website.
RurAL CAP AmeriCorps program addressing rural Alaska’s high rates of youth substance abuse and suicide through the cultivation of resiliency, supportive relationships, and positive cultural identity.
Alaska Native games celebrate ancient skills necessary for hunting survival. The protective and community-nurturing effects of these skills continue today in modern, urban environments where the skills are transmitted through unique, competitive games for Alaska Native youth. YouTube video.
Article from Indian Country Today about Lauren Sophia Ashana Johnson, who was chosen to represent Alaska for the 100-year anniversary of the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C.
The First Kids 1st initiative works to cultivate and nurture strategies and policies that help create and strengthen systems of support for
AI/AN youth in their communities.
Website produced in collaboration by the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
