14 Dec Come As You Are: Ankse “Terrence” Long
“I’m trying to become a role model for a lot of different Indigenous people to show that we can 100 percent prosper in a Western culture.”...
Our Stories
05 Dec Connecting Generations
"It makes my day to spend time with them." As a volunteer with the new Elder Mentor program, Eva Atchak gets to be an honorary grandma...
28 Nov The Fab Five
"I didn’t even know what friends were until I came here.” How a group of strangers came to CITC for help with sobriety—and found a family...
03 Nov CITC Flashback: A New Plan
Two years ago, Payge Panamarioff was just finishing her administrative assistanceship at CITC. Catch up with where she's at today with the first in our Flashback series...
27 Oct Our Future Ancestors: A Story of Education in Alaska
Across Alaska, a transformative initiative has been brewing, shaping the very foundation of education for generations to come. The mission? To engage in profound conversations and envision what culturally-relevant education in Alaska could look like...
23 Oct Parents as Teachers
Babies don’t come with an instruction manual. But parents who participate in the Ch’anik’en Home Visiting program get something better than a how-to book: They receive hands-on guidance in parenting skills from a family mentor...
13 Oct A New Generation of Yup’ik Speakers
Not so long ago, Alaska Native children were often forbidden from speaking their Native languages. In 2017, the Clare Swan Early Learning Center (CSELC) took a step toward revitalizing Alaska Native language when it created Anchorage’s first early childhood Yup’ik immersion classroom...
13 Oct CITC Flashback: Making Language History
In 2017, the Clare Swan Early Learning Center launched Anchorage's first early childhood Yup'ik language immersion class...
28 Sep “Community Is the Opposite of Addiction”
Every month, the residents at the Chanlyut and Ernie Turner residential treatment centers meet up for a communal potluck. It's an opportunity to explore culture through food--and to practice ways to create healthy, sober communities...
20 Sep The Space to Dream Bigger
"Denełchin" means "to make something"--and we recently made a big move to our new Super Fab Lab!...