Community Contacts

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Community Contacts

When arranging meetings, it works best to email (most are YK emails, unless noted otherwise) or call the week of to arrange a tour. The goal in visiting these different community programs is to understand how they function in the community, along with finding out how you, as a provider, can help patients utilize these programs.

FIT

Family Infant Toddler Program. This program provides PT, OT, and speech services to children under 3 years old, after which they can present through the school system for these services. They usually have a week long therapy service once a month in Bethel. This is a must-do community orientation for first year pediatric residents. It is best to contact them early on with multiple Thursday afternoon options because you can usually observe an afternoon when services are scheduled.

Contact: Melissa Shaw, PT, ext 6193

WIC

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides Federal grants to States for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk. WIC is located in the West Wing building to the right.

Amber Colvin, ext 6438

Olivia Pires, Registered Dietician/Nutritionist, ext 6469

TWC

Tundra Women's Coalition primarily functions as a resource for domestic violence victims. TWC currently includes a 30-bed shelter, a 24-hour crisis line, administrative offices, a Legal Advocacy program, a Community Education Program with a village outreach component, a youth violence-prevention program called Teens Acting Against Violence, a Children’s Program, Irniamta Ikayrviat (Children’s Advocacy Center), an Engaging Men and Boys Program, a Housing Program with Transitional Houses, and a Thrift Store.

Coordinator: Eileen Arnold (Eileen_Arnold@twcpeace.org)

TAAV (Teens Acting Against Violence) meets at TWC on Thursdays at 4:30 pm. When getting an introduction to TWC, it is good to meet around 3:30 pm to tour TWC and CAC, then attend the TAAV meeting to get an introduction to the program.

McCann

YKHC’s McCann treatment center is a 14 bed all male (ages 10 to 18) comprehensive psychiatric residential treatment facility, with a focus on inhalant and substance abuse, for children and adolescents from the YK Delta. They provide high quality and cost effective psychiatric, psychosocial, educational, and cultural services to emotionally and behaviorally disordered children, adolescents, and their families.

Contact: Kathy Nenneman (Katheryn_Nenneman@ykhc.org)

Dental

Contact: Mark Reynolds

Optometry

Contact: Pam Conrad

OCS

The Office of Children’s Services works in partnership with families and communities to support the well-being of Alaska’s children and youth. Services will enhance families’ capacities to give their children a healthy start, to provide them with safe and permanent homes, to maintain cultural connections and to help them realize their potential.

Contact: Bethel Office is Currently Closed

CAC

Pauline Bialy (introduced through TWC)

Public Health

Penny Pieper

Prematernal Home

Doreen O’brien

Bethel Youth Facility

Superintendent Daryl Garrison 543-4701 (main 543-5200)

ONC (Orutsararmiut Native Council)

Eleanor Miller (emiller@nativecouncil.org) main number 543-2608

Social Services Program

Director: Robin Charlie

Offers: Healthy Families- The Yup’ik Way every Monday from 5:30-7:00 PM at TWC, childcare is provided; Healthy Relationships every Wednesday from 6:00-7:30PM at the Senior Center, no childcare is available; 10 week Subsistence and Cultural awareness summer camp for kids ages 2-18 at the ONC tribal fishcamp.

Bethel Family Clinic

LaTesia Guinn, Executive Director or Kyle McGrath, Operations Director 543-3773