KANA Behavioral Health Department
KANA’s Behavioral Health Department offers a wide variety of options for clients seeking outpatient mental health or substance abuse services. We provide screening, assessment; crisis management; supportive services; individual, group, family and play therapy; psychiatric evaluation and medication management when needed.
Additionally, prevention activities supported by KANA’s Behavioral Health Department in each of Kodiak’s communities provide ongoing outreach to prevent suicide, alcohol and drug abuse.
The following Behavioral Health Services are available at KANA:
- Behavioral Health Aide Program
- Chemical Dependency
- Mental Health
- Meth/Suicide Prevention
- Tobacco Cessation
Behavioral Health Aide Program
After much planning and preparation, the Behavioral Health Aide (BHA) Program was created in 2004 to provide village-based Behavioral Health services within the Alaska Tribal Health System of Care. The BHA Program focuses on the promotion of healthy individuals, families and communities as well as issues related to mental health and substance abuse in rural Alaska.
The BHA Program is modeled after the Community Health Aide Program (CHAP) and likewise features various levels of certification based upon an individual’s demonstrated knowledge, skills, and competencies. All Behavioral Health Aides provide services within the scope of their certification level and with the supervisory support of licensed behavioral health clinicians.
The mission of the BHAP is to develop village-based behavioral health service capacity, and to help ensure the viability and survival of rural Alaska Native villages. The program values are to prioritize the well-being and emotional, physical, spiritual, family, social and cultural health of individuals and their families within their home communities. The goals include: Develop services focused on prevention, early intervention and case management; Increase the capacity for teamwork with providers already in the villages; Reduce outpatient, emergency, and inpatient workload and costs; Reduce long-term chronic health problems and disruptions to family and community.
For the contact list for the Behavioral Health Aides, click here.
Chemical Dependency
The Chemical Dependency Program is designed to help individuals who have problems with alcohol and drugs. It offers a wide variety of options for clients seeking substance abuse services. Our program is staffed with Certified Chemical Dependency Counselors (CDCII and CDCS).
We provide the following confidential substance abuse services:
- Assessment
- Anger Management
- Treatment Planning
- Referrals
- Group Therapy
- Intensive Outpatient
- Outpatient
- Continuing Care
- Program-related drug testing
- Individual sessions
- Prime For Life
- Village Based Substance Abuse treatment monitored by the BHA’s
Mental Health
This program is staffed by licensed mental health clinicians. KANA provides the following confidential mental health services:
- Mental Health Assessment & Diagnosis
- Individual Therapy for Adults & Elders
- Family Therapy
- Couples Therapy
- Play Therapy/Individualized Therapy for Youth & Children
- Grief & Loss Counseling
- Therapy for Childhood Trauma
- Anger Management
- Treatment & Support for Abused Women & Men
Meth and Suicide Prevention Initiative
The Methamphetamine and Suicide Prevention Initiative collaborates with many different agencies to bring about positive changes in our community and outlying villages. The Grant Coordinator travels to the villages to present different Forums and to communicate with our village elders and youth. The goal of the program is to prevent the illicit use of Meth and the trafficking via our waterways and by airlines into the Kodiak community and surrounding villages. We are reaching out to our communities through educational pamphlets, brochures, posters, and educational CD’s for presentations. We are working on a project with the Behavioral Health Aides in order to present a model about suicide within the Native Communities that will be Culturally Sensitive to the populations that we serve. We have done youth discussion groups and surveys.
Tobacco Cessation
The Tobacco Cessation Program offers beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of the Kodiak community the option to seek aid while quitting tobacco. With the help of the Alaska Tobacco Quit-Line, nicotine replacement therapies are offered at no cost to those who are referred to the quit-line. Councilors are available to guide those who find it difficult to be completely tobacco free and need extra assistance with or without nicotine replacement therapies. The program is currently working with the pharmacy board at KANA to increase pharmacotherapy that can be offered in conjunction to those using nicotine replacement therapies, or as another option for those who fill at the KANA pharmacy. KANA is currently in the process of creating a curriculum to offer a tobacco cessation workshop for those who are pregnant and wish to quit tobacco.
This program is open to everyone.
Behavioral Health Aides
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Akhiok |
Judy Simeonoff P.O. BOX 5008 Akhiok, AK 99615 |
836-2208 |
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Old Harbor |
Gregory Parker P.O. BOX 2 Old Harbor, AK 99643 |
286-2258 |
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Port Lions |
Julie Kaiser C/O Port Lions Clinic P.O. BOX 12 Port Lions, AK 99550 |
454-2283 (P) 454-2526 (F) |
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Ouzinkie |
Angela Bowling, Itinerant BHA to Ouzinkie P.O. BOX149Ouzinkie, AK 99644 |
486-1376 (In Kodiak) 680-2265 (In Ouzinkie) |
The Behavioral Health Aide Positions in Larsen Bay, and Karluk are currently vacant.