Recovery & Sobriety
Resources – Helping Young Alaskans Succeed
Resources – Helping Young Alaskans Succeed
Recover Alaska will be celebrating a series of virtual events to educate, bring awareness, and increase peoples’ attention on understanding mental and substance use disorders, as well as celebrating peoples’ path to recovery.
Sharing of stories: What is your memorable sobriety story?
Save the dates!
Peer Support
Events: In-person and virtual trainings
Celebrating the Goodness of Hooper Bay
Reducing delinquency by supporting Alaska Native communities.
Sobriety is a daily struggle; if you are working at being sober, the community is there supporting you. Sobriety, or effort to sobriety, could be for days, weeks, or years. If you are making an effort, we want to recognize your strength! Be a ROLE MODEL for our YOUTH! Be the ENCOURAGEMENT we all need! — Agatha Napoleon
Recover Alaska
About Recover Alaska
Alaskans live free from the consequences of alcohol misuse, so we are empowered to achieve our full potential. Shape legislation and policies that help to reduce alcohol abuse and build constituencies for change.
Get Connected With Recover Alaska
Social Media – Recover Alaska
Get connected to our social media accounts to share content and spread the message of recovery. Our website will also host a super chill virtual lounge where folks can access our zero proof cocktail recipe book, our Day 001 videos, add their face/voice into the mix by recording their message of hope, and more.
Qungasvik – The Yupik Way
Toolbox: A model for promoting reasons for life and reasons for sobriety in Yup’ik/Cup’ik communities
Protective Factors
Learn facts, experiences, and ways to be safe around alcohol.
Publications & Resources
Alcohol addiction is a complicated disease, and finding the strength, support, and positivity through virtual connection and apps can help reinforce accountability in maintaining sobriety.
Reducing delinquency by supporting Alaska Native communities
Peer Support Recovery
Publications & Resources
The following are youth and young adult resources developed by Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS)’ partners.
What is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)?
Publications & Resources
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) are a group of conditions that can occur in a person whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy. These effects may include physical, mental, behavioral and/or learning disabilities with lifelong implications.
Alaska Center for FASD
The Alaska Center for FASD was founded in April of 2017 by a group that includes those who have family members with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs) and professionals who work with children and adults with FASDs. The organization is currently growing and working to determine the focus of its mission and activities.
Sharing stories of sobriety journey
What is your memorable sobriety story?
Storytelling
We invite Alaska Natives young adults (ages 18-30) to share their experience, whether mundane or extraordinary, through written piece and/or visual image submission. One foot forward. Another foot forward.
We will be spotlighting several stories of hope, inspiration, and challenges throughout March (Sobriety Celebration Month) and April (Alcohol Awareness Month). Submissions will be displayed on social media, as well as our public Resource Basket website:
The Success of Using the Icelandic Model in Preventing Teenage Substance Use
Publications & Resources
Abstract: This is the second in a two-part series of articles about the Icelandic Model for Primary Prevention of Substance Use (IPM) in this volume of Health Promotion Practice. IPM is a community collaborative approach that has demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in reducing substance use initiation among youth in Iceland over the past 20 years. While the first article focused attention on the background context, theoretical orientation, evaluation and evidence of effectiveness, and the five guiding principles of the model, this second article describes the 10 core steps to practical implementation. Steps 1 to 3 focus on building and maintaining community capacity for model implementation.
The Resource Basket
This is a RurAL CAP affiliated program.