LATEST NEWS
Quarter 2, 2022 – Employees and Team of the Quarter
We are pleased to announce our award winners for Employees of the Quarter and Team of the Quarter for Quarter 2, April – June 2022! Employees of the Quarter Crystal Outwater - Program Coordinator/Admin Assistant with EESS (at the time of nomination) [...]
Young Hunters – Walrus Summit
Eskimo Walrus Commission (EWC) is convening a Young Hunters - Walrus Summit 2022 in Nome EWC is seeking a young hunter (ages 18-29) from each of the Eskimo Walrus Commission statewide walrus hunting communities of Utqiagvik, Wainwright, Point Lay, Point Hope, Kivalina, [...]
Student Highlight – Joni Segock
“All of the trainings taught me how to find a goal and follow it.” Joni Segock, Elim Joni’s first time attending a training was in 1991. She went to Portland, OR to get her heavy equipment operator’s license. That training opened the [...]
Student Highlight – Irving Ashenfelter
"It's so great to finally get back into that classroom atmosphere with an instructor teaching me something that I want to learn and actually apply it to the position that I'm at" – Irving Ashenfelter, Resident of Natchiġvik (White Mountain) Irving is a [...]
Opening Day – Pilgrim Hot Springs Season
To residents of the Bering Strait Region: We hope you all have been enjoying the warm summer weather we have had so far! We want to announce that the access road leading to Pilgrim Hot Springs will be unlocked and opened starting [...]
Camp Igaliq – Applications Open
Kawerak Wellness 2022 Camp Igaliq will be July 15-20 at Camp Nuuk in Nome! Applications will be due June 23. Each summer youth from Nome and the Bering Strait region travel together to create a bright vision of themselves, their community and [...]
Food-security threat with rapid salmon decline jeopardize our Indigenous cultures
Across Western and Interior Alaska, early summer is normally a joyful time of year, full of preparations for fishing and the anticipation of fresh salmon. This is a time when we look forward to fish camp, where our families gather around the [...]
Kawerak Offers FREE Money Management Resource
Have you ever struggled with money? What to do with it and how to save and keep yourself "financially strong" is a skill we can develop! Kawerak Employment and Training is offering no-cost workbooks on practical money management skills that will help [...]
Bering Sea Fishermen’s Association Requests Voluntary Halt of Area M Commercial Salmon Fishing in June
The Bering Sea Fishermen's Association (BSFA) has formally requested all Area M Seiners to voluntarily stand-down from their commercial salmon fishing in June to prevent the interception of Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim (AYK) Region bound chum stocks. As a part of the BSFA, Kawerak supports [...]
Kawerak Summer Childcare Program
Are you interested in summer childcare for a child between 3 and 5 years of age? Kawerak UPLC child care program in Nome has a program from June 1 to August 10th! Our UPLC Child Care Program is open to the public [...]
Kawerak Working to Knock Down Barriers to Online Learning in Rural Alaska With Project REMOTE
By Caitlin Auktweenna Tozier, Project REMOTE Systems Specialist Similar to urban communities, the COVID-19 pandemic effectively shut down in-person learning for the villages of the Bering Strait region. However, the barriers to education that surfaced with the shift to distance learning made [...]
Scholar Highlight: EJ Rochon & the Transition Program
“College is giving me the bright future I thought I could never have. There are so many new opportunities and I have met the most incredible people. This is the happiest I have been in a long time, and I know that [...]
