This communications plan is designed to position ICL and its senior leadership as thought leaders on mental health, with a focus on addressing the city’s current crisis. It aims to support fundraising efforts by highlighting key programs—such as OnTrack, IDD, Emerson, and Young Adults housing initiatives—and strengthen government relations by promoting policy priorities like sustainable funding for STEPS and expansion of IMT. Through strategic messaging and outreach, this plan will elevate ICL’s voice, deepen stakeholder engagement, and drive meaningful support.
Protecting our Mamaqs (Mamaqs being the Yupik word for breast) is a toolkit on environmental links to breast cancer and how to reduce exposure/prevention of breast cancer. The toolkit includes facts about cancer-causing and hormone disrupting chemicals that can contaminate traditional foods, air, water, and land of Alaska Native peoples, as well as household and personal care items.
In recent months, NEW has made an investment in its communications capabilities, bringing on a communications coordinator and senior communications consultant to assess NEW’s recent communications efforts, to improve communication processes and materials, and to begin the process of creating a marketing and communications plan for the organization. This report outlines accomplishments made during the past three months as well as communications goals we hope make progress toward in the coming months.
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Local officials and non-governmental environmental justice leaders will hold a brief press event prior to a tour of environmentally toxic sites around Fairbanks, Alaska. Community leaders will share critical concerns and discuss with government officials funding opportunities associated with the Justice40 Initiative. The initiative has set a goal that 40 percent of the overall benefits of certain Federal investments flow to disadvantaged communities that are marginalized, underserved, and overburdened by pollution.
Anchorage, AK - Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT), in partnership with the tribes, will conduct a community-based biomonitoring research trip from October 30 - November 5, 2022, in Gambell, Sivuqaq - the traditional name for St. Lawrence Island, Alaska.
(New York, NY) — The Institute for Community Living (ICL) today announced construction will begin on the $77.6 million redevelopment of the Emerson-Davis Family Residence, a one-of-a-kind supportive housing model that helps parents living with serious mental illness (SMI) and/or substance use disorder (SUD) stay connected with or reunify with their children.
By Adam Ortega for NOISE magazineSymbolizing a new beginning for the LGBTQIA2S+ abolitionist organization Black & Pink, Dominique Morgan used giant scissors for the ribbon cutting at their new headquarters.
By Adam Ortega for NOISE magazine
The word “pig” has become synonymous with “police” in some circles. Its use in reference to police is highly polarizing with most police and their supporters calling the term derogatory and disrespectful.
Moderator for environmental health webinar series
In 2023, I was in charge of researching, recording, and distributing an environmental health webinar series titled CHE-Alaska. The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) is an international partnership of individuals and organizations committed to addressing environmental impacts on human health across the lifespan.
This partnership explores the emerging science of environmental health, justice, and education relevant to the state of Alaska and its people. Coordinated by Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT), CHE-Alaska works to inform health professionals, researchers, health-affected groups, government agents and other concerned citizens about environmental links to disease and disability.
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