2nd Annual Statewide Gathering
Celebrating Our Community-Driven Cultural Strengths
March 27-28, 2019 • Nome, Alaska
This event was hosted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks
in partnership with
Kawerak’s Northwest Alaska Wellness Initiative (NAWI).
The purpose of this meeting was to:
- Bring people together from across Alaska to focus on Alaska Native community strengths
- Discuss how research can document, understand, and support community strengths
- Build capacity to do research by and for Alaska Native people
- Identify strategies and successes in transforming communities, institutions and services
- Identify what youth, communities, and institutions are
doing to strengthen culture and wellbeing
