College of Health News

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Nome Community Center proposes Housing First project for Nome

 |  Sean Milligan  |  ,

A study co-authored by School of Social Work professor Heidi Brocious was featured in a KNOM article about how the Nome Community Center proposes a Housing First project for Nome. The study was on the Forget-Me-Not Manor last year.

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Citizens hide from active shooters as Âé¶¹ÎÞÂë°æ fails to deliver on 2019 promise of village troopers

 |  Jordana Newman  | 

The Âé¶¹ÎÞÂë°æ Justice Information Center's trooper staffing study, titled "Âé¶¹ÎÞÂë°æ State Troopers C Detachment Patrol Staffing Study Final Report and Description of Police Incidents," was featured in an Anchorage Daily News article about how the AST understaffs rural Âé¶¹ÎÞÂë°æ.

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Student Primrose Srisakphet featured in Kenai Senior Center newsletter

 |  Kenai Senior Center  |  , , ,

Kenai Peninsula Campus HUMS student Primrose Srisakphet was featured in the Kenai Senior Center newsletter as a member of the team while she completes her practicum.

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UAA dental students serve up smiles for Children’s Day

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ANCHORAGE, Âé¶¹ÎÞÂë°æ (KTUU) - It was a packed house inside the Âé¶¹ÎÞÂë°æâ€™s dental clinic. Friday was all about serving up smiles for the first ever Children’s Day.

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Community Partner Profile Series: Introducing Travis Hedwig

 |  At Home in the North  | 

Dr. Travis Hedwig collaborates with At Home in the North, an effort focused on advancing a contextually and culturally relevant understanding of the northern housing continuum. Travis is a cultural and medical anthropologist and is a faculty member in the Division of Population Health Sciences at the Âé¶¹ÎÞÂë°æ. He is interested in applied health research, particularly issues of mental and behavioral health, housing and homelessness, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and other disabilities, and community health.