Local Programs

Uqautchim Uglua, an initiative of Iḷisaġvik College, is working in partnership with the North Slope Borough School District and the Iñupiat Community of the Arctic Slope (ICAS). The program will create a language immersion nest and teacher training center (lab school) in Barrow and will support the development of language nests in our North Slope villages. The language nest, Uqautchim Uglua, will use the Iñupiaq language and create curriculum based on the Iñupiaq Learning Framework developed by the North Slope Borough School District (NSBSD).

In addition to creating language nests, an overarching goal is to increase the number of Iñupiat teachers on the North Slope through a Bachelor of Education degree articulated with a partner Indigenous teacher training program. The teacher training program will bring program active students together during brief residencies at Iḷisaġvik College and deliver courses via distance delivery to facilitate the participation of students living in the outlying villages. Uqautchim Uglua will be culture-based, steeped in Iñupiat ways of knowing.

Contact Linda Stanford, Program Director, at 907-852-6257 or Linda.Stanford@ilisagvik.edu.

Tuzzy Consortium Library offers programs for children of all ages, ranging from story times to craft programs. All children are welcome, and parents are, too! For more information please call (907) 852-4050 ext. 28.

 
Family Nutrition Services – WIC Clinics. WIC provides free healthy foods (milk, cheese, eggs, 100% fruit juice, cereal, peanut butter, tuna or salmon, carrots, beans, iron fortified cereal and baby formula), nutrition education, breastfeeding guidance and support, anemia screening, immunization review and referral, and referrals to other health and community services. Services are for pregnant, postpartum (recently given birth), or breastfeeding women, and children up to their 5th birthday. Must also meet liberal income guidelines and have a nutritional need. Men and foster parents are encouraged to apply for their children under five years of age. WIC Clinics – DHSS/DPA is located at 579 Kingosak Street, North Slope Borough, Barrow, AK 99723. Main Ph: (907) 852-0410, Fax: (907) 852-3766, Contact: wendy.christianson@north-slope.org

Alaska Early Intervention/Infant Learning Program – Barrow office, (907) 852-9676 provides services for families with infants and toddlers (birth to age three) with special needs.