You can help drive the conversation! We’re getting together every two weeks this summer for information-sharing, collaboration and to catch up on what’s happening around the state.
These virtual get-togethers will help you remain up-to-date and stay connected to peers and colleagues as we all adjust to the new normal.
Coffee Klatch will take place every 2nd and 4th Thursday from 9-10am. Email Will Hurr with questions, or to receive Zoom login information!
Interested in joining the conversation? Dial 1-855-506-1445. There is no conference code.
2017 Positive Culture Framework & Communications Training June 15-16Alaska Wellness Coalition invites you to a 2-day training including: an overview of the Positive Culture Framework & Communications Skills Training! Learn how culture influences behavior, how to begin cultivating community transformation, the benefits of a comprehensive prevention approach and developing skills to plan a variety of communications.
Coalitions from around Alaska are working on or planning on doing communications campaigns for Be [You], Marijuana education campaigns, Opiate education, parent/family educational campaigns or suicide prevention campaigns. This is an outstanding training that will be tremendously beneficial to your work and we would love for you to attend!
For further information about the Positive Cultural Framework, please check out the information page at the Center for Health & Safety Culture at Montana State University. 
AWC is excited to have Katie Dively, M.S., CHES, facilitate the training event. Katie has been working with Alaska Wellness Coalition for over three years with the initial Positive Community Norms training, held in Anchorage prior to original development and launch of the Be [You]. Positive Community Norms media campaign. She is familiar with Alaska and some of the public health issues Alaskans face.
If you have further questions about the training event, please contact Stephanie Allen, Executive Director, United Way of Mat-Su at sallen@unitedwaymatsu.org, or 907-745-5821.
The training will be held at Alaska Garden Gate B&B and Cottages, 950 N Old Trunk Road
Palmer, Alaska 99645.
Terrence Robbins,the Ketchikan Wellness Coalition’s Drug Free Communities Project Coordinator, shares some unexpected emergent outcomes that occurred during the filming of the latest Be [You] campaign commercial in Ketchikan. Continue reading “Emergent Outcomes in Ketchikan”
Hello, my name is Logan Daniels-Engevold and I am a member of the Healthy Voices Healthy Choices coalition here in Anchorage, Alaska. As a youth involved in the filming of the newest installation of the Be [You] campaign, I had a great time during the making of the commercials. I was working with John Conn with Stage 2 Productions to film. He is a great filmmaker and really made sure that the youth involved with the project had a voice and would say what they felt. The youth voice is really what sets this commercial apart from others I have been involved in making.
John brought some really nice equipment with him to make this commercial, such as a RED camera which has been used to film many Hollywood movies. It is super clear and has a million different options to film with. John and I started in Wasilla, filming the Air Force JROTC program at Wasilla High School. After John and I finished that shoot, we headed out to Palmer to film teenagers in the area hanging out. Then John and I came back to Anchorage to film a couple more scenes. That all happened in day one.
Day two started bright and early with a plane ride to Ketchikan. Once in Ketchikan, John and I immediately started filming high school students at Ketchikan High School. The shots we took in Ketchikan were at a dock, at a coffee shop, and at a house with a few inspirational outdoor shots as well (weather permitting). The second day John and I were in Ketchikan it rained sideways and everyone and everything got drenched to the bone. But even with the bad weather I still had a great time during the making of these commercials and learned a lot from John.
The Kodiak Strong! initiatives for 2015:
These initiatives have 365 days to utilize their funding from Healthy Tomorrows. Each initiative will hold a kickoff meeting, which will be open to the public, and poised to provide additional information and sign up volunteers. Healthy Tomorrows will provide technical assistance to the projects (promotions, grant identification, etc).
The work of the Alaska Wellness Coalition is based upon relationships – how we relate to ourselves, each other and the issues we care about. These relationships work at different levels. First you have a meeting, then maybe a second get together, perhaps you get more involved and then voila you’re engaged in the process. And like any relationship building, promoting civic engagement is an ongoing process that requires continual nurturance, if not those connections can dissipate. By cultivating deeper relationships between coalitions and groups around the state, diverse individuals and affiliate members within the public and private sectors, AWC promotes an Alaska where all communities thrive
At the First Alaskans Institute’s Elders and Youth Conference, Alaska Wellness Coalition’s Be [You] campaign received a warm welcome by young and old alike.
Over 50 folks from around Alaska enjoyed lunch and robust conversation in Anchorage on October 1 at the Department of Health and Human Services Behavioral health grantees meeting. AWC community leaders hosted table talk envisioning what the issues are in local communities and how a statewide coalition could respond. Attendees learned about the AWC’s primary coordinated effort, the Positive Community Norms (PCN) Be [You] media campaign to reduce underage alcohol use and ways to get involved with the coalition.