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Learn more how Total Transformation, an at-home program for parents, can help your troubled or struggling teen and heal your family.

 

 

 

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How can I deal with the ANGER

 in our family?

 

Is my teen's BEHAVIOR just normal teenage rebellion?

 

What do parents and teachers need to know about BULLYING?

 

What is EMOTIONAL ABUSE?

 

How can I help my OVERWEIGHT

daughter?

 

Help!  My teen is a RUNAWAY

 

My teen is cutting.  What do I need to know about  SELF-INJURY?

 

What is 'normal' teen SEXUAL BEHAVIOR and what is cause for concern?

 

What makes a STRONG FAMILY?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Family Help in ALASKA

Helping Resources in Alaska

 

Alaska Information  -  Hotlines & Helplines

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Hotlines and Helplines

 

Alaska 211

Information on health and human services available in Alaska

2-1-1  Monday-Friday 8:30 am-5 pm

1-800-478-2221

 

Alaska AIDS Helpline

907-276-4880

1-800-478-AIDS

1-800-478-2437

 

Alaska Child Abuse Hotline

1-800-478-4444

 

Alaska Parent Line

1-800-643-KIDS

 

Alaska Suicide and Crisis Hotlines

 

Child Pornography Tipline

1-800-843-5678

 

ChildhelpUSA

Child Abuse Hotline

1-800-4-A-Child

1-800-422-4453

 

National Domestic Violence/Abuse Hotline
1-800-799-SAFE
1-800-787-3224
TDD

 

National Hotlines and Helplines

 

National Runaway Switchboard

1-800-RUNAWAY

1-800-786-2929

 

National Sexual Assault Hotline

1-800-656-HOPE

 

National Suicide Hotline

1-800-SUICIDE

1-800-784-2433

 

National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline

1-866-331-9474

 

Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network (RAINN)

1-800-656-HOPE

 

Report Child Abuse in Alaska

1-800-478-4444

 

Tundra Crisis Hotline

907-543-3456  Bethel

1-800-478-7799

 

 

 

ACADEMY AT SISTERS

Therapeutic boarding school

for girls, ages 13-18

Watch the video!

1-800-910-0412

 

SHELTERWOOD

Christian therapeutic boarding school

for teen boys and girls,

with year-round enrollment

1-800-584-5005

 

FUTURE MEN

Christian residential program

for young men, ages 16-20,

with year-round enrollment

417-546-4171

 

BONNEVILLE CANYON RETREAT

Life skills learning center

for young men & women, ages 17 and over

1-866-800-9517

 

Helping Resources in Alaska

 

 

 

Alaska Autism Resource Center

907-334-1300

Provides individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), families, educators, professionals, and caregivers with impartial information, assistance, and connections to resources statewide.  Visit Asperger Syndrome.

 

Alaska Brain Injury Network

907-274-2824  Anchorage

1-888-574-2824

Advocacy, education, and resources for the survivors of traumatic brain injury and their families.  Visit Emotional Health.

 

Alaska Mental Health Consumer Web

907-222-7683

Internet resource for mental health consumers.  Visit Personality Disorders.

 

Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Statewide coalition made up of twenty-one domestic violence and sexual assault programs.  ANDVSA does not provide crisis services.  If you are in danger, please call 911 or one of the local domestic violence/sexual assault programs in Alaska.  You can also call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) and 1-800-787-3224(TTY).  Visit Abuse.

 

Alaska's Youth & Family Network

907-770-4979

1-888-770-4979

An organization of families and professionals who want to work as partners to improve services for children who have mental disorders.  Visit Attachment and Attachment Disorders.

 

Disability Law Center of Alaska

1-800-478-1234

Public education, direct service, community outreach, and systems advocacy on the legal rights of people with disabilities.  Visit Special Education.

 

Law Project for Psychiatric Rights

907-274-7686

Provides a coordinated legal effort seeking to end the abuses against people diagnosed with mental illness through individual legal representation.  Visit Bipolar Disorder.

 

Mat-Su Parent Resource Center

907-373-3632

Information, support, and assistance to parents of children with disabilities, their professional partners, and their communities.  Visit Learning Disabilities.

 

Mental Health Association in Alaska

907-563-0880
MHAA is a division of the Mental Health America and is dedicated to the promotion of good mental health, the prevention of mental illness and ongoing improvement in the care and treatment of the mentally ill through advocacy, education, referral, research, legislative input and the monitoring of existing programs.  Visit Teen Depression.

 

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in Alaska (NAMI)

1-800-478-4462

Support, education, advocacy, and research organization working to improve the lives of those with mental illness.  Affiliates hold monthly support meetings and provide educational meetings on various topics connected with mental illness.  Visit Bipolar Disorder.

 

Resource Center for Parents and Children

907-456-2866   Fairbanks

1-800-643-5431 Parent Line

RCPC is the Alaska Chapter of PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA.  Visit Abuse: Physical, Emotional, Sexual.

 

RID Alaska of Child Abuse

Resource and information directory on child abuse in Alaska, including Alaska's child abuse laws and where to go for help.  Visit Abuse: Physical, Emotional, Sexual.

 

Special Education Service Agency

Public agency that  provides assistance to school personnel, parents, and service providers for students with low incidence disabilities in rural and remote parts of Alaska.  Visit Special Education.

 

Standing Together Against Rape (STAR)

907-276-7273  24 Hour

907-278-9988  TTY

1-800-478-8999  24 Hour

Crisis intervention and advocacy services to victims of sexual assault and sexual abuse.  Provides education on these issues to the community.  Visit Abuse: Physical, Emotional, Sexual, Neglect.

 

Stone Soup Group

907-561-3701

Statewide collaboration located in Anchorage aimed at improving services for families who have children with special needs.  Visit Special Education.

 

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