The summer sunshine beams across the Alaska Native Health Campus, and Raise interns are full of excitement as they begin exploring and experiencing career and cultural opportunities offered at Southcentral Foundation. With the summer internship program in full swing, you will find the interns learning valuable workforce skills in departments across campus.

With the summer equinox nearing, now is a great time to pause and check in on your health and wellness New Year’s resolutions. While resolutions vary, most have the same goal — to become the best version of yourself possible. Whether you set big goals on Jan. 1, or you are planning to set a mid-year resolution, Southcentral Foundation exercise physiologists, behavioral health consultants, dietitians, and others are ready to partner with you.

Every community in Alaska is impacted by substance use. All Alaskans in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough now have access to addiction treatment and recovery services that have a history of changing lives and communities for the better. At the Benteh Nuutah Four Directions Outpatient Treatment Center in Wasilla, as a result of a collaboration between Southcentral Foundation and local Tribes, the doors are open to anyone who may benefit from substance use services.

Kristina Okamoto was preparing to return to Alaska after college. Starting her professional life in Anchorage, she wanted to better understand health care options, so she called her mother to ask about services on the Alaska Native Health Campus.

Southcentral Foundation Director of Quality Assurance Michelle Aregood was selected as a 2024 recipient of the Baldrige Foundation Award for Leadership Excellence in Healthcare. She received her award at a luncheon at the Baldrige Foundation’s Quest for Excellence® Conference just outside of Washington, D.C.