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Environmental Health in Kotzebue, Alaska
 
 
 
Maniilaq is a regional 501(C)3 non-profit providing health and social services to 8,000 people within the Northwest Arctic Borough and Point Hope. Maniilaq operates a hospital in Kotzebue, as well as clinics in each of the 12 villages in its service area. Services include specialty medical care, community health services, construction and maintenance of water and sanitation facilities, training and educational support, and a host of other services including environmental health. To learn more about Maniilaq visit our website here: www.maniilaq.org The VISTA Project at Maniilaq will work to reduce regional poverty by expanding indoor air quality and a traditional food initiative. Currently, the Sigluaq is a unique food donation center that provides traditional foods for Maniiilaq Health Center Long Term Care Center elders and for community events. The VISTA will serve to improve processes of the Sigluaq especially processes that comply with USDA and ADEC food handling and preparation requirements. The VISTA member will help coordinate the seal oil task force that is working to make the preparation and storage of seal oil safer for the end consumers. The VISTA member will also design a naturally occurring asbestos monitoring program, and a community education campaign designed to mitigate the negative consequences of asbestos exposure by increasing awareness of risks at a community level. **BENEFITS: Monthly stipend ($1,333), for service members relocating more than 50 miles (34 cents/mile up to $1,000) and settling in allowance ($550), health benefits, child care assistance, and Education Award ($5,920) or cash stipend ($1,500). VISTA will attend/present at trainings hosted at partner non profits, attending professional conferences, rural travel, professional networking in public health and environmental engineering fields.
 
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Member Duties : The VISTA member will promote awareness about Maniilaq's Traditional Food Initiative to local, state, and tribal (nation-wide) audiences. The Iñupiat are an Inuit, Alaska Native people, whose traditional territory spans Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the Canada–United States border. Siguaq is the word in their native language to describe subsistence or traditional food. Through the work under the Traditional Foods Initiative, the VISTA will help improve access to safe traditional foods at Maniilaq's Long Term Care Center in Kotzebue, and families from the surrounding low income communities. As a positive externality, the VISTA's work will promote a model for other institutions across Alaska and the Nation to improve access to safe nutritious/local traditional foods.
 
Program Benefits : Training ,  Stipend ,  Education award upon successful completion of service ,  Health Coverage* ,  Living Allowance ,  Housing ,  Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend ,  Childcare assistance if eligible ,  Relocation Allowance . 
 
 
*For details about AmeriCorps VISTA healthcare benefits, please visit https://americorps.gov/members-volunteers/vista/benefits.
 
Terms :
Permits attendance at school during off hours ,  Permits working at another job during off hours . 
 
Service Areas :
Health ,  Tribal ,  Community Outreach . 
 
Skills :
Public Health ,  Education ,  Writing/Editing . 
 
 
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SUMMARY
Program Type:
AmeriCorps VISTA
Program
Environmental Health in Kotzebue, Alaska
Program Start/End Date
09/04/2018  -   09/03/2019
Work Schedule Full Time
Education level
College graduate
Age Requirement
Minimum:  18    Maximum:  None
Program Locations ALASKA  
Languages
English
Accepting Applications
From  07/02/2018  To  08/10/2018 
Contact Eric Milliken
731 E 8th Ave
Anchorage   AK   99501
(907)865-7358
emilliken@ruralcap.com
americorpsalaska.org/vista/
Listing ID 73530

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