Mental Health Focus

Mental Health Focus is supported by a grant from the Alaska Mental Health Trust and members of Alaska Public Media

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Animated Video Series

Line One: Talking to youth about substance use

Dr. Jillian Woodruff - May 24, 2023

Talk of Alaska: Supports for active duty service members and veterans

Lori Townsend, Alaska Public Media - May 23, 2023

Two women and a military servicemember sit around a news desk.

Supporting Alaska’s veterans | Alaska Insight

Valerie Kern and Madilyn Rose, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage - May 19, 2023

Scrabble pieces on wood table. Letters read "MENTAL HEALTH"

Line One: Ketamine Therapy

The Serpentine Tors in western is likely a similar landscape to what the first Alaskans encountered 20,000 years ago. (National Park Service, Alaska photo) Serpentine Tors

Line One: How loneliness affects our health

Talk of Alaska: After the Sullivan

Island town visible from the water

Talk of Alaska: Building healthy communities

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Line One: Anchorage Project Access

Line One: Everything Left to Remember

Line One: Autonomy during end-of-life care

Resources for aging Alaskans to stay in their home communities |...

A group of elders participate in an exercise class in an indoor pool.

For older Alaskans, exercise classes build community

Line One: Celebrating Sobriety

A woman wearing a bathing suit pushes a walker down a tie hallway.

The day after her 100th birthday, an Anchorage centenarian is back...

Line One: Resources for eating disorders in Alaska

A man stands in front of a pile of wood holding a chainsaw.

How an accident turned this skier into a force for good...

Three women, one in a beige jacket, one in a yellow shirt, and one in a green jacket sit at a table and speak to each other.

Shining a light on eating disorders | Alaska Insight

a tent outside, under the snow

Fairbanks man’s death outside at 50 below prompted a closer look...

Talk of Alaska: Cultivating Healthy Relationships

A sign about drug overdoses

Native Americans left out of ‘deaths of despair’ research

Three people sit at a desk talking together.

New developments in Anchorage’s homeless services | Alaska Insight

Cars drive down a road while a person walks in the middle of the road. The sidewalk to their left is covered in snow.

Line One: Disabilities and Winter Isolation

A crowd skates on an ice rink on a school basketball court.

Mountain View Elementary celebrates the opening of a new community-funded ice...

Bartlett Regional Hospital

Juneau’s hospital is losing more than $1M a month

Line One: Mental Health Services for Transition-Aged Youth

Line One: Living with the End in Mind

Line One: Mental health services for Alaskan students

Alaska volunteers want to know: What happened to the ‘Lost Alaskans’...

Every Memory Deserves Respect

Line One: Eye Movement Desensitization and Processing

Infusing language and culture into Alaska education | Alaska Insight

children dancing in a circle

Line One: Therapeutic foster care

a woman holds a mans hands

Line One: Eating disorders

Line One: Mental Health Mosaics — Deepening conversations around suicide and...