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Spring - Ugnerkaq 2013 KANA Clinic Reception Area Remodel Complete!

KANA is continually seeking ways to improve the quality of care and service our Beneficiaries receive. Through venues like our Community Forums, Patient Experience Survey Cards, and Board Meetings, we have had the opportunity to hear from our Beneficiaries concerning areas identified as needing improvement. In response to feedback from our Beneficiaries and staff, the KANA Main Clinic lobby and front desk area recently underwent a significant remodel. Instead of separate Registration and Scheduling areas, we now have a centralized registration desk. In addition to our new sleek appearance, we have made improvements to the functionality of the space to increase Beneficiary privacy and confidentiality. With this central registration desk, we have streamlined the Praznick Celebrations Fun For All Ages! process for patients by providing a single point of contact for those checking in for There were over 200 people in attendance to Afognak, with door prizes donated by many appointments, scheduling appointments, and ring in the Russian New Year at the Masquerade local businesses.Thank you to all who donated updating patient information. Ball! Live music was provided by the Bethel gifts and their time in making this a memorable Band at the Sun’aq Tribal Hall, hosted by the evening. Special thanks to Meta Carlson and We appreciate your feedback and hope you Sun’ami Elders Council. Participants of all ages Bertha Malutin for preparing a wonderful like the changes we are making to improve enjoyed dancing, door prizes, adult and kids meal! Congratulations to all the winners of the your experiences here at KANA.  costume contests, great food and visiting. Praznick Costume Contests!  The event was sponsored by KANA, Sun’aq Iluani Tribe of Kodiak, and the Native Village of Inside Joan Katelnikoff, Jordon Squartsoff & Izabelle Steele Cindia Bravo enjoying the kids costume contest Clinic Reception Remodel Complete 1 Praznick Celebration 1 President’s Letter 2 New Initiatives...A Big Year Ahead 2 Patient Experience Survey Results 2-3 Provider Profile: Penny Puhak 3 Spotlight on Culture: New Books 4 Elder Profile: Kathryn Chichenoff 5 Child Care 6 Sharon Wolkoff with WIC Update 6 her grandmotherTiny CEDS Planning 6 Tobacco Control Alliance Summit 7 Alutiiq Crossword Puzzle 7 New Volunteers Needed 7 Fitness Center Workout Groups 8 Annual Simeonoff Salmon Run 8

Wellness News Spring - Ugnerkaq 2012 Page 1 President’s Letter New Initiatives: A Big Year Planned at Kodiak Area Native Association I’d like to take this opportunity to share with you some of the changes and improvements Three initiatives are rolling out that are occurring at KANA as we continue to to ensure KANA is the best place develop a system of care designed to elevate the quality of life of the people we serve. to receive care!

KANA started the New Year with 1. Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care improvements to clinical space and service (AAAHC) is the accreditation organization KANA has chosen delivery in accordance with our Strategic to voluntarily attain and receive recognition for high-quality care. Plan. As you visit KANA’s Health Center, The accreditation process will assure KANA provides the highest you will experience a more private, streamlined standards and best practices in health care. registration and scheduling process. This redesigned area will facilitate the confidential What does this mean for the community on Kodiak Island? gathering of patient data and insurance information so that KANA may maximize its available resources by increasing insurance revenue. KANA has always provided the best care possible but, now KANA will be recognized for it. Accreditation is an important step in standardizing health KANA is committed to managing and securing resources so that we may care and knowing you will be getting the best health care possible. Accreditation realize our envisioned future of assuring that Kodiak’s Native Community means that an independent group (AAAHC) will come to KANA and evaluate thrives by making certain that our family, friends and neighbors all have access KANA’s healthcare policy’s to see if they match national standards. When the to the highest quality healthcare available. AAAHC evaluation is complete we expect KANA will have accreditation and you, the Kodiak community, can expect and receive excellent healthcare. Opportunities to expand services within our communities provide increased potential for revenue. New revenue streams will assist in providing enhanced services to our people. One example of a new service line is the addition of 2. HealthStream is a computer based program for all KANA KANA’s Veteran’s Clinic that started in January. The Indian Health Service employees to meet annual trainings. recently signed an agreement with the Veterans Administration that allows payment to KANA for services to Kodiak’s Veteran population. Funding from What does this mean for the community on Kodiak Island? this program supports an additional physician to ensure that service to KANA’s HealthStream will assist with the accreditation process. All KANA staff Native Beneficiaries is not diminished by the increased demand in our clinics. must complete annual trainings to continue accreditation. Annual trainings through HealthStream assure that KANA staff is getting the most up to We look forward to capitalizing on additional opportunities to build upon our date standardized information for your benefit. recent successes. While our goals are lofty and will require significant work and commitment by KANA’s leadership and staff, our many past accomplishments are evidence that we can achieve amazing results by working in conjunction with our Beneficiaries. 3. Cerner is the new electronic health record that will improve patient services and will be here in April. Thank you for your loyalty to KANA and for your continued participation in the transformation of health and social service delivery within our clinics. What does this mean for the community on Kodiak Island? Cerner is an electronic record that will be used for Respectfully, each person receiving care at KANA. Cerner will assist in communication between all the providers at KANA and the Alaska Native Medical Center making managing/transfer of care easier.  Andy Teuber President and CEO

KANA Patient Experience Survey Results The Patient Experience Survey Cards are one of the many ways Beneficiaries can affect Disagree 5% Question 1: change at the Kodiak Area Native Association. Neutral 5% The following data shows feedback from I have a person at KANA whom I Beneficiaries over the past year.  Agree 10% think of as personal doctor, dentist or therapist.

Question 4: Strongly Agree The information given 80% to me about my health Strongly problems is very good. Agree Agree Neutral 10% Neutral 10% 40% 60%

Strongly Agree Strongly 30% Agree Question 2: Agree Question 3: Agree 50% 60% It is very easy for me to get health Most of the time, when I visit the 55% care services at KANA when I clinic, my visit is well organized need them. and does not waste my time.

Page 2 Spring - Ugnerkaq 2011 Wellness News Photo courtesy of Kaelyn Redmond, Provider Profile Penny Puhak’s granddaughter Penny Puhak, Physician’s Assistant

Penny Puhak grew up in Seward, Alaska. After she graduated from high school in Seward, she met and married her first husband, who was in the Air Force. They were stationed overseas in such places as the Philippines and Italy, as well as in California and several other Lower-48 locations. They had two children who are adults now. Both of her children live in Fairbanks today. Her daughter Diana is a pre-Med major at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and her son Nick is considering his career options. She is also blessed with two grandchildren: Kaelyn, age seven, and Logan, age five.

“When I first was divorced, I returned to Alaska and went to school to become a Medical Assistant.” Raising her two children as a single parent, she knew she needed to develop a stable career and that this would require returning to school. Pursuit of During her internship she says, “I met my for a team that enjoys their work and is not a career in medicine was an obvious choice for her. sweetie” in Anchorage. “He introduced me to territorial, which she experienced in other She says,“It’s always been where my heart lies.” Her Kodiak. He retired from the Coast Guard in medical practices outside of Kodiak. two greatest interests are in cooking and medicine. 1988, and was working for Alyeska in Valdez Between the two career choices she says,“I can’t see when we met in December 2001. He spent many She feels her background as a lifelong Alaskan it the other way around.” years stationed in Kodiak.”Together they decided makes her appreciate some of the challenges that they wanted to live in Kodiak. She believes, that rural Alaska Natives face. She says, “I’m not As she searched for a training program that “Kodiak has the feeling that Seward had when Alaska Native, but I am a Native Alaskan--third would be the right fit, a friend recommended the I was growing up.” Because Seward is on the generation.”  University of Washington’s Physician Assistant road system, it has experienced more change, but Program. She felt it incorporated all the training Kodiak has retained its rural Alaskan and small opportunities she was looking for. After taking her town qualities. “You can do all the really cool prerequisites at University of Alaska Anchorage, things here in Alaska,” she says. “Once I decided she moved to Seattle to finish her training through to move to Kodiak, it didn’t take me long to find the UW Physician Assistant Program with its the job.” Now that she knows she’s here to stay remaining two years of required coursework she encouraged her 88-year-old mother to move and internship. During her second year, she back to Alaska and also make Kodiak her home. completed six months of field rotation experiences in orthopedics, attending two surgeries, working Before joining KANA, Penny worked at North in behavioral medicine at the Alaska Psychiatric Pacific Medical for six years as a Physician’s Institute (API), and assisting underserved Assistant. While she has only worked at KANA populations including one month in Kodiak. She for two months, she is really impressed with also spent six month in a family medicine practice how friendly everyone is. She says,“everyone is in Cordova, and stayed on there for the summer. helpful in their jobs.” She appreciates working

Strongly Agree Question 5: Board of Directors We hear you, we listen, Agree I am sure that I can manage Loretta Nelson, Chairperson Neutral and control most of my health Al Cratty, Jr., Vice Chairperson we change.. problems. Cheryl “Dee Dee” Christofferson, Secretary keep it coming Disagree Neutral Arnold Kewan, Treasurer Strongly Disagree 10% Phyllis Amodo, Member Jill Boskofsky, Member Alex Panamaroff, Jr., Member Margaret Roberts, Member Speridon M. Simeonoff, Sr., Member Gary Watson, Member

Agree 90% Question 6: Neutral 10% Neutral 10% Overall, the care I receive at KANA meets my needs. Strongly Agree Strongly 30% Agree Question 7: Agree 50% 40% I am able to get the care I Agree 60% need and want — when I need and want it at the clinic.

Wellness News Spring - Ugnerkaq 2011 Page 3 Spotlight on the Alutiiq Culture Photo courtesy of Alutiiq Museum Celebrating Recent Alutiiq Publications

In 2012, the Kodiak Alutiiq community produced three publications that will contribute greatly to cultural education, language revitalization, and wellbeing for the region. Alutiit/Sugpiat: A Catalog of the Collection of the Kunstkamera

After six years of work, The Alutiit/Sugpiat: A Catalog of the Collections of the Kunstkamera is now accessible in English. “The gorgeously illustrated 400-page book from University of Alaska Press is stunning in several respects, a contender for the title of the most beautiful volume Dr. Katherine Arndt of the University of Alaska Copies of the of Alaska ethnography ever published,” describes Fairbanks Rasmuson Library. Alutiiq Word of the Anchorage Daily News reporter Mike Dunham. Week: A Fifteen Year Compilation, “From the 1700s through 1867, thousands of To reduce the book’s retail cost, Koniag, Inc. are available from the Alutiiq Museum Store [Alutiiq artifacts] were collected in Russian funded some of the English edition publication, in for $22, and can be ordered on line. Written by America and eventually housed at the Peter the addition to contributions throughout the project Amy Steffian and April Laktonen Counceller, Great Museum of Archeology and Ethnology in St. by the Alaska International Education Foundation, and designed and edited by Alisha Drabek, this Petersburg, also known as the Kunstkamera.” Bristol Bay Native Corporation, Chugach Alaska book was produced with generous support from Corporation, CIRI Education Foundation, the Alaska Humanities Forum, the Kodiak Island Alutiiq Museum Executive Director Sven Haakanson, Perry Eaton, the National Park Service and the Borough School District, and the Alutiiq Heritage Jr. explains how this collection contains,“some of the Rasmuson Foundation. Throughout the process, Foundation. Reviews of the publication by Alutiiq oldest and most beautifully preserved objects from our Sven Haakanson, Jr. and Alutiiq Museum staff educators Peggy Azuyak and Cheryl Meunier are ancestors.” He was amazed at this Russian collection, coordinated with Kunstkamera Museum staff and available on the Alutiiq Museum’s web site. as it represents“...things we didn’t realize we had--the Yuri Berezkin, editor of the Russian catalog, to wealth that was once here in Kodiak.” make this translated edition possible. The Kodiak Alutiiq The catalog is organized into three sections once Community members can learn more about the Orthography each for the Alaska Peninsula (the Katmais), new catalog through the Anchorage Daily Mirror Kodiak Island, and the Chugach region. It offers and the Alutiiq Museum. Copies can be purchased Written by Jeff Leer, Ph.D., and April Laktonen “overviews of scholarly, historic and contemporary for $50 through the Alutiiq Museum’s website, Counceller, Ph.D., the Kodiak Alutiiq Orthography observations about the Alutiiq world then and now, by phone, or in person by appointment until the is a book about writing in the Alutiiq language. including fascinating reports from Russians on the Museum store reopens on April 1, 2013, after The publication brings together all of the rule scene before the ancient ways vanished,” reports renovations are complete. for writing in a single resource and will serve Dunham. “But its glory is the photographs, page as the foundation for an upcoming Alutiiq after page of weapons, household items, apparel, Orthography class taught by Dr. Counceller ay masks, drums, rattles and ceremonial regalia.” The Alutiiq Word of the Week: Kodiak College. After decades of Alutiiq language A Fifteen Year Compilation research, documentation, and revitalization, this With the intended purpose of the publication in mind, text provides a comprehensive exploration into Haakanson says,“This book will trigger a lot of creative Where can you explore Alutiiq culture and sharpen the Aluiit’stun/Sugt’stun writing system. While activity...lots of artists will be inspired. There is an your Alutiiq vocabulary? In the Alutiiq Word of technical in nature, the book is written to promote artistic touch to so many of these items, even those of the Week book. Here, readers can find hundreds community language revitalization and is organized utilitarian purpose. One can see the importance of art. of Alutiiq words with an accompanying lesson. and presented to be approachable for both Alutiiq It’s part of the sensibility of the whole culture.” Published in October 2012, this 200-page paperback second language learners and first language speakers brings together 15 years of the museum’s popular wishing to develop their written language skills. At the beginning of the project, Koniag, Inc. and the lessons on all things Alutiiq. The weekly words, and Alutiiq Museum helped a team of Russian scholars their accompanying phrases and stories, have been The book is based partly on materials produced by to raise funds to photograph the collection, which read on KMXT local radio by several Kodiak Alutiiq Chugachmiut’s Culture and Language Program, the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology Elders over the past 15 years, including Sophie and was produced with generous support from the and Ethnography published in Russian. The book Shepherd, Nick Alokli, and Florence Pestrikoff, and National Science Foundation. Copies of the Kodiak was then translated from Russian by Lois Fields of continue to appear in print via weekly publication Alutiiq Orthography are available at the Alutiiq Afognak, a former Koniag Board Member. Fields in the Kodiak Daily News and email blasts and web Museum Store at no cost, while supplies last. This generously donated hundreds of hours to the postings by the Alutiiq Museum. publication can also be downloaded for free from the translation project, followed by editorial review by Alutiiq Museum’s web site at the following link. 

Page 4 Spring - Ugnerkaq 2012 Wellness News Elder Profile Kathryn Chichenoff

Kathryn Ellanak Chichenoff was born on December 1, Kathryn’s husband Sonny is from Afognak village, and 1937, to Katie and Larry Ellanak in Karluk. She is one was a fisherman. She met him while visiting Karluk as of seven children: five girls and two boys. Her mother a young woman.“I met Sonny in Karluk in the summer was born in Cape Douglas, and her father was born in during salmon season. I was very close to and went to Afognak but adopted by the Ellanak family and raised visit Sasha Noya, Julie Knagin’s mother,” explaining in Kanatak. Kathryn and her siblings grew up in Karluk why she had gone back to Karluk to visit. Kathryn until Kathryn was 13, when they moved to Ouzinkie and Sonny were married in May of 1957 at his sister where she lived until she was married. Kathryn and her Phyllis’s house in Kodiak. Kathryn looks back and husband Alexis“Sonny” Chichenoff raised seven children says, “My dad always wanted me to get married in the and now are blessed with 35 grandkids and great- Church. So finally, not even three years ago, we had our grandkids, including two sets of twins. marriage blessed and I’m sure my dad is happy.”

Her father was a church reader for the Russian Orthodox She was nineteen when she married her husband Church and worked as a fisherman when they lived in Sonny. She remembers, “We moved to Afognak and Karluk. She says, “In Karluk, they used to beach seine, lived with his folks for about six months. He bought and my dad was a skiff man.” Then when they moved a quonset hut, and he and his dad fixed it. When he to Ouzinkie he worked in the cannery. She remembers was done with it we moved into our own place.” They her childhood fondly,“We were all very close to our dad, enjoyed their early married life in Afognak, and then all of us. He was the head of all of us, even after we got when her son Keith was about a month old they moved married and had our own kids, what our dad said, that to Kodiak. She liked living in Kodiak because it was was it. He never preached to us...Whatever he told us easier than when she was raising her oldest children in we still remember and try to do...Things are so different Afognak, or growing up in Karluk and Ouzinkie. As a anymore...I don’t preach to any of my kids. When I have fisherman, owning his own boat, Sonny was away a lot. something to say, I tell them. Usually that works. When She explains, “So, I raised our kids mainly by myself. nice. Our kids were small and we always had company. they do something wrong they do hear from me.” I never learned how to drive. When we would go to We always visited. We took our kids with us. We church, we walked. Thank goodness it wasn’t too far.” use to play cards, or work on puzzles, sit at the table The lessons Kathryn learned as a child, which she has and have tea. We didn’t sit in the living room or just tried to pass on to her own children, were all about Kathryn was pregnant with their daughter Melody anywhere. We sat at the table. Sonny and I used to respect. Growing up, Kathryn felt that children knew when they moved to Kodiak. Less than a week after have a lot of company.” how to behave and did what their parents asked Melody was born the Good Friday Earthquake struck without complaint. She says, “When my folks used on March 27, 1964. Kathryn had just been released Kathryn speaks the Alutiiq language and has been to go visiting, we were never allowed to sit with the from the Griffin Memorial Hospital after Melody’s teaching in the language programs, including in the adults. Now the kids do that, but we never thought birth, and she remembers, “We were living up on the Kodiak High School Alutiiq language class. “Like I say, about it. We were kids and we used to play. We were hill then [on Alder Street]. They let me out a day early. when my parents used to visit, we used to go with them. so glad when our folks would take us somewhere She was born in the hospital and it was so full. They I used to hide under the table. I always think that’s how because we were never allowed to leave our yard. We had a patient come in and so they put me in the hallway I learned this language. Before when the people used to had to play in our own yard. At least if they went for the night. The next day they let me out. You know visit, all they spoke was the Aleut language.That’s how I visiting we were somewhere else. they use to keep you in bed for six or ten days. No learned it was to hide under the table.” fooling, when they did finally let you get up, it was hard “We never fussed; we didn’t know that we were to walk because you were so weak... My sister Angeline “I am always proud of both of them. Both of them supposed to fuss I guess like the way I see things now. babysat the kids. She was feeding the kids at the table, spoke Alutiiq and Russian [and English]. So, they had It is so different. We never helped ourselves. We had and I was so tired I was laying on the couch. I hollered to know quite a bit, to speak the three languages,” she our three meals a day. We all sat at the table. No matter out there, I said, ‘Who’s jumping around out there?’ says. However, her parents experienced ridicule and what, they never sat us anywhere else. We all sat at the abuse surrounding their use of the Alutiiq language, table. When we went to church, we never sat down. “Angeline said, ‘Nobody.’ And boy, my question was which left a lasting scar. She recalls how her father We stood. Everybody stood in church before, nobody answered. The house started shaking so bad. She ran never agreed to help teach the Aleut language when sat. There was a blind, old lady, who had a chair, but outside with the kids, so I went, and I forgot my baby in asked as an elder because he never got over the pain of she hardly sat. We never sat in church...In Karluk, we the bedroom...I had to go back in. I barely made it and I not being able to speak his language before. used to wash banya once a week, Friday, so we would be grabbed her. I got by the kitchen sink, and I was almost clean for Saturday and Sunday. We used to walk a long fainting but I final made it outside with my baby. “I always say, I’ve gone through changes, but nothing ways to church for midnight service...sometimes it was my dad went through, because he lived to be 96. He really cold.They’d let us take a nap in the evening.Then “...We didn’t have a car or nothing, so Phyllis [Sonny’s never, ever complained...I always think to myself, I they’d wake us up, dress us up, and we’d walk to church, sister] came and got us. We were the first ones up wasn’t treated bad, but to listen to my dad, he couldn’t and never fussed. We never fussed.” Pillar Mountain. I was the first one they let into those use the language.” She explains about the pain he felt buildings up there. I guess they are not supposed to, over it, “My dad never did help. When this woman She looks back with happy thoughts on being a child, but I had just got out of the hospital. And we knew from Fairbanks used to come and she went to Ouzinkie and is concerned at how kids today don’t play outside the cop. So he said, ‘I’ll put your wife in there.’ So, to see my dad and asked if he would teach the language, that much anymore like they should. She says,“As a kid I was in there, and him the kids and Phyllis were he had no problem saying no. He never did get over I loved snow play...Kids don’t play anymore. TV and outside in the car. And finally they started letting being as a kid that he couldn’t use it. He never did help. videos and what do you call those games, have ruined everybody in. And they went outside watching the My mom would. She did finally change. She felt that it them...My grandkids, they don’t play outside. They tidal wave. I didn’t go out because it was cold. They should be taught, so she did help... watch TV or watch the computer. Kids don’t know went outside watching the waves. how to be kids anymore.” “I’m glad it’s coming. I never thought it would ever “I think we stayed up there until maybe four o’clock come back. Daddy used to say,“ Alutiit’stun niuwaneq Reflecting on what young people should know today, in the morning, I think we came down. We went to qikikaat. (He was ashamed of the Alutiiq language). she says, “One thing they need to know—respect— our own place up on the hill, and Phyllis went to They are ashamed because MiRikaan’saat englartaariit for their parents. My grandkids are good. So, I don’t hers. Then when we looked out, how everything was (the Americans always laugh).” know how anybody else’s are. My family, all of their wrecked and washed away. I hope I don’t live through kids are very good with Sonny and I. They do know another one like that. My goodness, Michael was sick Thinking about the impacts of Alutiiq cultural education who we are and they do respect us. So, I don’t know from it for a couple of days because he was so scared... programs today, Kathryn says, “I never paid attention how some other people’s kids are to them. But my The other kids were too young to know the difference. before this. But you know before I always felt like I was own children are good to both of us. They come to nobody. Because nobody liked Natives. That’s what I check on us and call.” “My folks in Ouzinkie, they were fine. They had a house always thought. Like we weren’t real people. Now I see it full. They lived on a hill in Ouzinkie. [My dad] used to different, after I got involved. I see it different. I am just “Some kids, I don’t know if they have family. They do, say these people who never ever came to visit us, when as human as anybody else. I think going to those classes but they aren’t paid attention to. I do [pay attention they needed help, where did come? They came to our has showed me something—to be more proud. I’m to] mine. I don’t care what they’re parents say, I’m house.That’s just the way it is anymore. People don’t visit. proud of those girls taking the class and speaking in the here and they are going to hear from me...If they language...Since then, things have changed for me. I feel don’t listen to them, then they will hear from their “I don’t visit anymore either, ‘cause I feel like a pest. more human, more real...I’m more sure of myself.”  grandmother. That’s just who I am.” Nobody calls. Nobody comes. Before it used to be

Wellness News Spring - Ugnerkaq 2012 Page 5 KANA’s Child Care Assistance Program Women, Infant,

Statistics In January 2013, we held a Child Care Provider Child Program Training Weekend. This training was made • 20 families receiving child care assistance available for all the KANA Child Care Providers. (WIC) Update • 34 participating children • Day 1, Saturday, January 26th, started with a CPR • 18 approved KANA Child Care Providers & First Aid Class. KANA’s Emergency Medical Over 20 new clients joined the WIC program Services (EMS) Manager, Jud Brenteson, trained during the month of January 2013. • 10 KANA Child Care Providers are licensed and certified 7 KANA Child Care Providers, with the state of Alaska; whose CPR & First Aid certifications Sara Bennion and Shanna Moeder completed were up for renewal, in the • 8 KANA Child Care Providers are approved a vendor monitor visit to the USCG through KANA’s application, agreement, most recent American Heart Commissary on January 16, 2013. These background check, supervision and training. Association’s CPR & First Aid. monitor visits are required every three years by the State WIC office and • Day 2, Sunday, January 27th, ensures the local WIC vendors are Recent Training Activities KANA’s Registered Dietitian, stocking the appropriate amounts Shanna Moeder, offered up to On December 11, Renee Lips, the local of WIC eligible foods and handling the participants a presentation administrator for State Child Care Assistance, WIC vouchers accurately. These titled “Fueling Your Tots Right” came to Kodiak and joined up with KANA’s where she discussed healthy visits are also helpful to establish Child Care Assistance, through the 477 program, meals and snacks for children. open communication between to put on a Child Care Provider Chat. All KANA’s Infant Learning vendors and the local WIC child care providers in Kodiak, including those Program’s Coordinator, agency; these relationships are KANA approved providers from the villages, NancyWells, was also available imperative for clients to receive the were invited to attend. We had 13 attendees. and spoke to the group about best services while shopping at the At this chat, information was shared about visual learning strategies for young grocery store. KANA’s Child Care Assistance program and children. the state’s Child Care Assistance program. This In the first quarter, July 1, 2012 through was an opportunity for providers to discuss any For more information on becoming a KANA Sept 31, 2012, the WIC office experienced challenges they may have been having with either approved Child Care Provider, please contact a no show rate of 18%. During the second of our programs or to troubleshoot with other Halley Arneson, Community Services Program quarter we decreased our percentage of no providers. They were also able to provide our staff Specialist, at 907-486-9820.  shows to 15%. Persistent efforts in reminder with important feedback. calls and postcards, follow-up after missed appointments, and increased efficiencies by WIC staff have contributed to this decrease. Alaska Tobacco Control Our average monthly caseload during the first quarter, July 1, 2012 through Sept 31, 2012, Alliance Annual Summit Registration is now open was 471 clients served. The average monthly on the ATCA Website: caseload increased to 546 during the second May 1st - 3rd www.alaskatca.org quarter, October 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012. In July, Sara Bennion, sent out over twenty letters requesting return of long overdue electric breast pumps. Breastfeeding WIC participants are allowed to keep a pump for The seventh annual Alaska Tobacco Control ATCA members from all over Alaska nominate up to one year, but due to lack of follow up Alliance Summit will be held in Kodiak on outstanding individuals and organizations that in this area, many pumps were years overdue. May 1-3, 2013. The Alaska Tobacco Control are helping pave the way for a tobacco-free In response to these letters, seventeen ‘lost’ Alliance (ATCA) is a statewide organization and healthier Alaska. Anyone may nominate breast pumps were returned over the last four that works to create conditions in Alaska that an individual or group; nomination forms are months. One pump was returned 3 years and are tobacco-free. ATCA formed in 1992 to available at www.alaskatca.org. 10 months after the date it was loaned. These create a statewide network of health advocates high quality pumps cost the State of Alaska to develop, support and sustain comprehensive Past summits have been held in Juneau, $565 each. We are very thankful to have tobacco control programs. Fairbanks, Bethel, Kenai, Palmer, and Nome. these pumps returned, so we can loan them to breastfeeding women who are currently in need The summit is open to the public, and ATCA Each year, ATCA members from across the state of a pump. gather to learn from national experts and peers invites Kodiak residents to join us. Registration around Alaska state about a variety of topics. will be open soon and available on the ATCA The KANA WIC office is distributing new This year’s speakers include national experts website (www.alaskatca.org). For any questions food lists! These food lists are in pamphlet on new smokeless tobacco products, coalition please contact Betty MacTavish, Tobacco format and are much easier to read. More building, and policy. Other sessions will focus on Education Coordinator, at 486-9847 for more pictures of WIC approved foods are displayed issues like smokefree housing, the latest research information.  in these lists. The new food lists are replacing on tobacco use in Alaska, hookahs, iqmik, IDs at the cash register on March 1, 2013. smokefree campuses, and much more. Photo above courtesy of Sven Haakanson, Jr. WIC participants will be required to bring these lists to the store every time they spend The conference also hosts a youth track, bringing their WIC vouchers. If you are receiving WIC together young tobacco prevention and control benefits and have not received a new food list, advocates from across Alaska.Youth will participate stop by the WIC office and pick one up! in their own trainings as well as join in the main sessions, as well as present on a keynote panel. Contact Sarah Bennion, WIC Coordinator, for more information at 486-1313.  Each year at the ATCA Summit, the coalition recognizes some of the wonderful tobacco prevention work accomplished in our state.

Page 6 Spring - Ugnerkaq 2012 Wellness News Community Economic Development Strategy (CEDS)

Karluk River photo courtesy of Patrick Saltonstall

January 31, 2013, KANA’s Rural Services Program hosted a web conference: The group set specific goals to accomplish: Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) for Kodiak’s rural villages. 1. Improving education and strengthening the leadership skills of village Representatives from the following organizations and villages participated students was the top priority; (participants from the villages included City and Tribal staff): 2. Energy, transportation, and communication; • Akhiok • Larsen Bay 3. Having a voice at the assembly. • Ouzinkie Community Service staff will be researching different educational programs that • Port Lions the villages could easily implement, such as Junior Achievement and Lemonade • Shirley Kelly, Economic Development Administration Day. A report will be sent to all of the tribal councils at the end of the month • David Monture, Intertribal Agriculture Council with more options and resources. A follow-up teleconference will be scheduled to • Joe Bailor, Kodiak Chamber of Commerce discuss what actions to take next.  • Rob Stauffer, VPSO Coordinator

Alutiiq Opposites Crossword Puzzle Volunteers Needed

To complete this puzzle, find keyword answers in Alutiiq for each clue at right. See word KANA is looking for volunteers to assist with planning and coordination of translations and correct spellings under the puzzle. Puzzle solutions on page 8. Puzzle by Elder activities. The goal of KANA’s Elder Program is to offer gatherings Alisha Susana Drabek—Englartaq, and Candace Branson—Cutmen open to the public but geared toward our Elders. In addition to offering gatherings, there will be a few fundraising activities throughout the year in order to help support their activities. Lastly, if individuals are seeking ways to help Elders with daily activities, such as shopping or just looking to spend some quality time, contact KANA. Volunteering for our Elders is a great way to stay involved and meet new people—plus it’s very rewarding. For more information please contact JJ Marsh, Patient Relations Director, at the Kodiak Area Native Association, 486-9828. Quyanaa. 

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