UAA Justice Center Professor and Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Justice Information Center Director, Brad Myrstol, spoke with KNBA about the disproportionally high number of Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native and American Indian inmates in the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æn and U.S. prison system.
Master of Social Work student Shana Cooper works with the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Justice Center. She joined the Hometown, Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ podcast to talk about mental health and suicide prevention in the state.
The Remote Area Medical (RAM) nonprofit clinic recently made its first visit to Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ, setting up pop-up clinics in Anchorage and Fairbanks to provide free dental, vision, and medical services to those in need. However, RAM faced a challenge when it came to staffing the clinics with dental hygiene volunteers.
Like other animals in the wild, the big animals that roam Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ’s largest city are carrying bacteria that cannot be killed by commonly used medicines.
On Feb. 24, the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ VA Clinic was officially renamed the Colonel Mary Louise Rasmuson Campus of the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ VA Healthcare System, a collaborative effort that included both Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ senators and U.S Representative, as well as the invaluable contributions of Assistant Professor Vanessa Meade in UAA’s School of Social Work.
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