What We Do

What is the Alaska Impact Alliance currently doing?

Association of Practitioners

The AIA is a large association of child welfare practitioners, agencies, and advocates. The AIA organizes statewide practitioner efforts by housing multiple prevention networks and projects related to child wellbeing in Alaska. The network members and project affiliates within the AIA utilize shared resources and supports for efficient and effective operations. The AIA offers services and support through existing partner programs.

Monthly Learning and Networking

AIA members meet monthly to discuss child welfare issues in Alaska, strategize and learn from each other, and hear from keynote speakers about national programs or laws.

Monthly Newsletter

AIA members contribute to and receive a monthly newsletter on Alaska’s child welfare programs, job openings, events, and other pertinent practitioner information.

Alaska Family Resource Center Network

The Alaska Family Resource Center (FRC) Network launched in the Fall of 2022. The Alaska FRC Network is part of the National Family Support Network. FRCs are in select schools, agencies, and community centers across Alaska and will provide resource and support coordination for families. With generous funding from the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, the Family Resource Center Association in Colorado is assisting Alaska’s FRC Network and Member FRC’s in their design, procedures, and policies to ensure evidence-based best practices in serving families.

Family Assistance Management System (F.A.M.S)

The AIA offers the F.A.M.S. case management system to agencies so that they can utilize state-of-the-art Sales Logic software for managing their client and employee information. Within F.A.M.S., agencies can:

1) utilize evidence-based needs assessments,

2) use surveys and send correspondence,

3) track services, training, resources distributed, referrals made, and time spent with each client, and

4) access reports.

Culturally-Tailored Practice

An AIA Action Team is locating and studying existing culturally tailored family wellness prevention practices that could qualify for federal funding. We aim to elevate the practices already working for Alaskan families and potentially bring nationally recognized evidence-based practices to Alaska.

Promising & Evidence-Based Practice Clearinghouse

The AIA is committed to tracking and supporting existing evidence-based prevention programs, promoting the use of these programs when appropriate, and working toward sustainable federal funding for these programs

100% Communities Alaska

The AIA assists communities and their local agencies in standing up sustainable preventions through community conversations, assessments, funding, and implementation support.

UReCares Stipend and Respite Program

The UReCares Program provides Unlicensed Relative Caregivers direct financial support for the care of the child(ren) in their custody.

Through the UReCares Program, children and their Unlicensed Relative Caregiver receive direct financial support so that they can maintain family connections, receive much-needed support, reduce caregiver stress, increase childhood resilience, and eliminate the need for non-relative foster care.

907 Navigation App

The 907 Navigation App is a statewide resource and systems navigation app. 907 Navigation users can

1) find resources,

2) recommend resources,

3) use eligibility calculators for some benefit programs,

4) navigate complex systems through videos and tutorials, and

5) ask the Resource Raven questions.