Alaska Behavioral Health

Happy Thanksgiving! Our clinics will be closed November 28 and 29 for the holiday weekend. Our Residential programs and Fairbanks Mobile Crisis Teams will continue 24/7 operations. If you or someone you know is in crisis, resources are available: *Call 911 if you are experiencing a life threatening emergency *Call or text 988 from any phone in the United States to get connected to local mental health resources. *Reach the Alaska Careline Crisis Intervention Line at 1-877-266-4357. #mentalhealth #thanksgiving

Gratitude Week: today we're feeling thankful for our Client Accounting Team, for two reasons! - They won our participation award for this year's United Way of Anchorage workplace giving campaign, winning these swanky logo socks, AND - 3 team members recently celebrated their 10 year anniversaries with the company! (Two of them started work on the very same day.) Thank you Donna, Jay, and Karen for your combined 30 years of service with a smile!

Look at our snazzy new reception area at the Laurel clinic in Anchorage! We're excited to be able to greet clients as they come in the door (instead of after they have trekked upstairs/elevator.) This building houses our psychiatry and primary care services for adults as well as our partial hospitalization program for adults! Learn more at https://lnkd.in/dPanGYsi #mentalhealth #mentalhealthishealth

Have you registered for our first ever Advanced Rural Child Trauma Conference happening on December 4th? If not, it's not too late! And the best part? This conference is completely virtual, so anyone who supports rural communities can join! Near or far, we hope you'll join us. https://loom.ly/milYg1M #RuralCommunities #TraumaTraining #VirtualConference

We're highlighting mental health for military and veteran families this month, but it is work we do all year-round, at all of our clinics, including the @Steven A. Cohen clinic! Individual and family therapy, group support and lunch and learns are all available to help families with some of those extra life stressors that veterans and active duty families live with. Federal employees, you can support our work with veterans when you donate through the Combined Federal Campaign, the workplace giving program for federal employees. We're CFC # 80467 or search for Alaska Behavioral Health; we'd be honored to have your support! https://givecfc.org/

Welcome to our newest board member, Whitney Brown! Whitney is an attorney at Stoel Rives LLP, where her practice focuses on complex civil litigation and appeals. She has clerked for Judge Morgan Christen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Supreme Court. Whitney attended law school at UCLA School of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of UCLA Law Review and co-president of the school’s Health Law Society. Before becoming a lawyer, Whitney attended college at the University of Chicago and earned a Master in Public Health at Emory University. She spent several years working in health policy in Washington, D.C. Whitney, thank you for joining us in reaching toward our vision of "Wellness for Everyone!"

This week's What's Up Wednesday event will highlight our new Intensive Outpatient Program that has an Eating Disorder track! We are so excited to be bringing this program to Alaska to better serve kids ages 9-17. Our info session will be held via Zoom on November 20th from 12-12:30 AKST. Register now! https://loom.ly/o9_L_GQ We hope to see you there! ??

It's that time of the year when our Mobile Crisis Team is often out in the dark and cold, checking in on people at their homes or in the community. The Mobile Crisis Team is dispatched in Fairbanks through 911. A clinician and peer support specialist respond together, with or without first responders (as determined by a risk assessment.) From October 2023 to September 2024, the team was dispatched 744 times. 85% of calls were resolved in the community, 2% were resolved by law enforcement, and 13% needed hospital intervention. 92% of these dispatches were made without law enforcement involvement, saving police and troopers more than 680 call-outs and resolving issues with more appropriate behavioral health services. Nice job, MCT! #mentalhealth #mobilecrisis

Thrilled to be finalists in this year the Anchorage Chamber Gold Pan Awards, in the non-profit Above and Beyond category. No matter the outcome, it's an honor to be nominated alongside Big Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska and the Alaska Center for Performing Arts. Celebrate with us tomorrow! https://loom.ly/xvR7m84

Our Anchorage Intensive Outpatient Program for youth ages 9 - 17 has launched a specialized track for clients with eating disorders! The IOP program runs after school, up to five days a week as needed, and includes structured therapy, skill development, and mealtimes - along with individual and family therapy. Learn more about our intensive services for children at next week's "What's UP Wednesday!" https://loom.ly/o9_L_GQ or check our website here: https://loom.ly/fAVt-zU #mentalhealth #eatingdisorder