A panel of officials from the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Department of Corrections (DOC) and the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) discussed how Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ tackles the job of providing mental health care to juvenile and adult correctional populations. Nationally, more than half of prison and jail inmates have mental health problems, and probation/parole departments provide essential mental health services to their clients.
The Anchorage Police Department has recently increased community policing efforts, including adding foot patrols in some areas around Anchorage. APD and community leaders discussed current efforts at reducing crime, reducing fear of crime, and improving police-community relations.
Nursing mothers at the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ now have a dedicated, private space to feed their babies or pump breast milk. The Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Division of Public Health awarded a group of UAA faculty, staff and students an Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Workplace Breastfeeding Support Project grant through its section of Women's, Children's and Family Health. The project aims to help Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ organizations implement workplace policies and spaces to accommodate breast-feeding mothers.
Addiction and homelessness plague scores of people in Anchorage. Those topics will be the centerpiece of a Feb. 2 UAA Think Tank session, which is co-hosted by the UAA School of Nursing, with Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission featured as the guest agency.
Four women—Jyll Green, Jill Rife, Leigh Keefer and Robin Bassett—became the first class of graduates to accept Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees from UAA at fall commencement.
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