Alaska ICE actively partners with schools and communities, building positive youth-adult relationships and healthier school and community climates to help kids achieve academic and social success.
Learn more about our statewide initiative.
Our newest Progress Report details who we are, what we’re about, and our efforts with school districts and partners across the state for 2011.
Trail improvement project (benches, birdhouses, signs) in Cooper Landing
Alaska ICE is offering $500 cash awards for qualified youth led service projects to be completed by September 7, 2012. Eligible projects involve youth-adult partnerships that plan and carry out community-based service activities.
For more details, and to apply, click here. (.doc)
For community service ideas, check out some of our past projects from 2010 and 2011.
Second Place for Best Education Reporting (RADIO) titled, “Advertising in School” by Aviva Hirsch Entry Audio (Note: This story aired on “Kids These Days.”)
Second Place for Best Profile (RADIO) titled, “Hi, I’m Matt” by Max Jungreis Entry Audio
Second Place for Best Ongoing Public Affairs program (RADIO) Entry Audio
Third Place for Best User-Submitted Online Package (ALL MEDIA) titled “What was the last thing that made you really happy?” Entry Audio
For more information on the awards, visit alaskapressclub.org or listen to past award-winning stories from Alaska Teen Media Institute.
• Week of May 7: HISTORY OF MOTHERHOOD – In our Mother’s Day special , we look at mothering and motherhood through the ages with our guest, author Dr. Shari Thurer, who joins us from WBUR-Boston.
• Week of May 14: CHILDHOOD OBESITY – We explore the rates of child obesity in Alaska, talk about Type II diabetes and other obesity-related illnesses in kids, we’ll look at eating healthy in the bush and ask the question – can babies be too fat?
• Week of May 21: TEACHER APPRECIATION – Another school year has come to a close. The kids may be out of the classroom, but a teacher’s job is never done, so on this program we celebrate and appreciate those educators who make a difference in the lives of kids – every day of the year. Anchorage School District exiting Superintendent Carol Comeau joins us as a special guest.
(Listen at: KHNS Haines/Skagway/Klukwan; KCUK Chevak; KTOOJuneau; KDLG Dillingham; KMXT Kodiak; KSKA, KRUA Anchorage; iTunes; or www.kidsthesedays.org.)
Last week on Talk of Alaska, writer Ishmael Hope and illustrator Dimi Macheras joined host Steve Heimel to discuss their influences, Alaska Native culture and traditional knowledge, and the Strong Man graphic novel, an AASB/Alaska ICE-funded project. Strong Man was chosen as this year’s book by the Alaska Spirit of Reading program.
Listen to the entire show here. (Alaska Public Radio Network)
Pick up a copy of Strong Man.
The Week of the Young Child helps to bring focus and public attention to the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the local and/or regional early childhood programs and services that meet those needs.
Early Learning, literacy, and family engagement are priorities at AASB and our recent efforts with the Lower Kuskokwim and Dillingham School Districts reflect that. Read an article that appeared in the March/April 2012 issue of ICE News about our work with LKSD. (Full newsletter here.)
The Week of the Young Child™ is a perfect time to recognize the importance of building strong Alaska families and communities. Doing so is much easier when everyone is speaking the same language and understands their roles in achieving success.
That’s why Best Beginnings, The Alaska Children’s Trust, thread, and Strengthening Families Alaska are working in partnership to kick off the 5 Factors Campaign during the 2012 Week of the Young Child™, April 22 – 28.
Together with the help of parents and early childhood programs around Alaska, the 5 Factors Campaign aims to bring new awareness to a different factor each day. Learn more here.
The Challenge: 6.7 million young people are not in school and are unemployed
The Call: This initiative calls on young people to submit videos or text detailing their solutions about reconnecting young people with the education, training and comprehensive social supports critical for long-term employment and lifelong economic independence.
This is a social media to campaign to gather ideas that youth think can really work. The Challenge is designed to spotlight youth-driven solutions and identify new ideas from young people from all walks of life. All solutions are fair game, from entrepreneurial start-ups to ideas for social change.
The Prize: The top-voted winners will receive an iPad, start-up grants of $1,500, and mentoring from recognized business and policy leaders to see their ideas brought to life locally.
Find out more from SparkAction.
The Prince of Wales Whalefest and Beachcombers Fun Fair was held March 30 through April 1 and was a great success. The annual event, a part of the Out in the Rain program of outdoors activities, had approximately 600 people participate in a series of events on Prince of Wales Island.
Read the full article at the Juneau Empire website.
In choosing their intervention, grantees may consider external factors that can potentially impact non-marital pregnancy in young women, such as intimate partner violence, substance abuse and lack of services. Grantees may choose from a variety of possible project implementation strategies including (but not limited to) an abstinence primary and safer sex intervention, youth leadership/youth development, substance abuse prevention or domestic violence prevention.
Interventions may be school-based, clinic-based or community-based and may include (but are not limited to) peer to peer education, provider education, web-based or a media intervention. Youth involvement is highly encouraged. For complete information, click here.
