Local Services

• AKinfo: Statewide directory of human service providers.
• Alaska 2-1-1: Connect with available resources that best fit your needs. It’s free, confidential and language interpretation is available.
• Alaska C.A.R.E.S.: Outpatient clinic providing sexual abuse evaluations for youth aged newborn to 18.
• Alaska’s Youth & Family Network: Agency that assists families in advocating for their youth in the school, community, and educational forums.
• Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center: Provides a full range of coordinated health services that are accessible and affordable.
• Catholic Social Services: Programs include: emergency shelters, teen homes, homeless prevention services, emergency outreach, refugee resettlement, parenting support, pregnancy support services and adoption, and services for developmental disabilities.
• Connect Mat-Su: A comprehensive health and social services information and referral hub, ensuring that every person in the Mat-Su has what is needed to live a healthy and fulfilling life. 
• Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc.: Offers social, educational and employment services to Alaska Natives and Native Americans living in the Cook Inlet region.
• Denali Kid Care: State of Alaska program designed to ensure that youth of both working and non-working families can have the health insurance they need.
• Disability Law Center of Alaska: Independent non-profit organization that provides legal advocacy services for people with disabilities anywhere in Alaska.
• MYHouse: Provides shelter, counseling, and educational support to youth aged 14 to 25 in the Mat-Su Valley.
• National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Alaska (NAMI, Alaska): Grassroots support, education and advocacy organization of consumers, families, and friends of people with severe brain disorders.
• Southcentral Foundation: Alaska Native health corporation formed under the tribal authority of Cook Inlet Region, Incorporated (CIRI).
• The Children’s Place: Provides a child-friendly facility where personnel from many agencies (law enforcement, social workers, mental health, and medical providers) meet to coordinate an investigation of possible child abuse.

State of Alaska

• Alaska Mental Health Board (AMHB): State agency charged with planning and coordinating mental health services, as well as advocate for Alaskans with mental illnesses.
• Department of Family & Community Services (DFCS): State services providing support, safety, and personal well-being for vulnerable Alaskans.
• Division of Behavioral Health (DBH): Community-based crisis services and intervention to provide short-term help for mental health and substance use needs of youth and adults.
• Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ): State services promoting the safety and restoration of victims and communities.
• Office of Children’s Services (OCS): Report child abuse and learn about non-therapeutic foster care, home visiting, and independent living.
• University of Alaska Anchorage Center for Human Development: Resources in support of individuals with developmental disabilities.

National

• Annie E. Casey Foundation: Devoted to developing a brighter future for youth with respect to their educational, economic, social and health outcomes.
• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law: Advocates for the civil rights, full inclusion and equality of adults and youth with mental disabilities.
• Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health: Nationwide advocacy organization with families as its sole focus.
• Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development: Promotes the wellbeing of all children, adults and families by creating more inclusive communities.
• Kempe Center: Provides research, training, education, and innovative program development to prevent and treat all forms of child abuse, neglect, and trauma.
• National Resource Center for Adoption: Partners with states, and tribes to offer support in all phases of the Child Family Service review process.
• National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues: Offers assistance with Child Family Service reviews.
• North American Council on Adoptable Children: Committed to meeting the needs of waiting children and the families who adopt them.
• SAMHSA Partners for Recovery: A collaboration of communities and organizations mobilized to help individuals and families achieve and maintain recovery and lead fulfilling lives.
• SAMHSA National Suicide Hotline: Call, text or chat for support during a suicidal crisis.

Child Development

• Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning: Focused on promoting the social emotional development and school readiness of young children birth to age 5.
• Parent Map: Seattle-based collective of parents, educators, and activists focused on providing information and insight into parenting and child development.
• Zero to Three: National nonprofit organization that informs, trains and supports professionals, policymakers and parents in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers.

Childhood Trauma

• Child Trauma Academy: Collaborative of individuals and organizations working to improve the lives of high-risk children through direct service, research and education.
• National Child Traumatic Stress Network: Raising the standard of care and increasing access to services for traumatized children and their families across the U.S.