Alaska Native
Collaborative Hub for
Research on Resilience
Upcoming events
Past events
Harvesting Our Knowledge, Setting Our Goals,
Lighting a Path to the Future
ANCHRR 2022 Anchorage Retreat
April 24-28, 2022 • Hotel Captain Cook
Raising Up Our Voices,
To Shine a Light on Our Strengths
Youth Digital Storytelling Workshop
— April 24-25, 2022 —
2nd Annual Statewide Gathering
Celebrating Our Community-Driven Cultural Strengths
March 27-28, 2019 • Nome, Alaska
University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus • Wood Center Ballroom
This event was hosted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks in partnership with Kawerak’s Northwest Alaska Wellness Initiative (NAWI).
The purpose of this meeting was to:
- Bring people together from across Alaska to focus on Alaska Native community strengths
- Discuss how research can document, understand, and support community strengths
- Build capacity to do research by and for Alaska Native people
- Identify strategies and successes in transforming communities, institutions and services
- Identify what youth, communities, and institutions are doing to strengthen culture and wellbeing
1st Annual Statewide Gathering to Celebrate and Support Community Strengths
April 3-4, 2018 • Fairbanks, Alaska
University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus • Wood Center Ballroom
This event was hosted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks in partnership with Kawerak’s Northwest Alaska Wellness Initiative (NAWI) and First Alaskans Institute.
This collaborative event brought a diverse group of people together from across the state representing various groups, agencies and individuals involved in the work of bringing about and promoting positive change and wellbeing for all Alaskans.
The gathering took place over two days and involved the sharing of stories of strength and success from within our Alaska Native communities along with working sessions and group dialogues focusing on the following themes:
- Creating new partnerships for promoting community strengths and wellness as suicide prevention.
- Community-driven research to increase health and wellbeing and improve services
- Focusing on community strengths and wellbeing as prevention.
