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...
Family Tag
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...
01 Mar Introducing the myCITC Portal!
Making CITC services more accessible Cook Inlet Tribal Council program participants now have access to a free, online app to connect to CITC services. The new myCITC portal gives program participants the ability to: Search for services Apply for services Safely message CITC services and staff Submit documents securely With just a...
16 Feb Home for the Holidays
Christmas 2022 meant more than presents for the Gagnon family: It was the first time Melissa Imboden and her husband Jeremy Gagnon, Sr., were reunited with all their children under one roof...
03 Feb New Welcome Center to Open Thursday, February 9
The new Welcome Center--along with an innovative app called myCITC--will help people connect more easily with CITC services...
05 Jan A Taste of Their Heritage
Following a calendar derived from traditional annual subsistence activities, Child & Family Services holds cultural social gatherings that connect families to their heritage...
08 Dec Together for the Holidays
For the first time since 2019, CITC held its annual Family Holiday Celebration, Saturday, December 3—and made Christmas brighter for nearly 700 individuals, children, and Elders...
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