Prevention. Promotion. Protection.

Health Promotion

The State of Alaska’s Health Promotion program is committed to working with communities and state and regional agencies to help build promising health promotion programs. It seeks to nurture successful strategies with support and expertise by:

  • Providing educational and training opportunities on health education and health promotion, which includes co-sponsoring statewide and regional conferences.
  • Developing and supporting partnerships and collaboration with other statewide, regional, and local public health agencies in the public and private sectors, to improve the health status of Alaskans throughout the state.
  • Advocating for statewide, regional, and local health promotion activities, policies, and resources.

The most effective community health promotion programs are comprehensive and are based on multiple intervention strategies that include education and environmental and policy change. These strategies must be culturally relevant and designed to meet the specifics of the community they are intended to impact. A strong health promotion system includes schools, the workplace, health care sites and communities. These setting serve as channels for reaching the intended audience as well as sites for applying strategies. These settings also generate the possibility of intervening at the policy and environmental level to encourage and support healthy behavior.

Health Promotion oversees Alaska’s Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant.  This federal grant fund unduplicated services, and is developed in conjunction with a statewide advisory committee. 

  • Advisory Committee Membership  (link to PDF)
  • FFY07 PHHS Block Grant Plan  (Link to PDF)

Consultation, training, technical assistance and facilitation services for local, regional and statewide public health organizations are available through the Health Promotion program on a wide range of topics.  These services can be obtained at 907-465-5729.  Topics include:

  • Collaborative Leadership
  • Evidence Based Programming
  • Group Facilitation
  • Health Promotion 101
  • Logic models for program planning, evaluation and management
  • Mobilizing Action through Partnerships and Planning
    • Community Development
    • Coalition Development
    • Health Assessment
    • Planning
    • Implementation
    • Evaluation
  • Policy and Environmental Change
  • Primary Prevention
  • Social Capital

The Health Promotion program oversees Alaska’s Rape Prevention and Education grant activities.  These federal funds are intended to provide the state with the primary prevention of sexual assault.  Working in conjunction with that Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, the Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, and the Alaska Division of Public Health’s Family Violence Prevention Program, Health Promotion is developing a primary prevention assessment of sexual assault to be used in developing and implementing a statewide plan.

Publications

Resources

For more information, please contact:

Jayne E. Andreen, Manager
Health Promotion
Division of Public Health
Department of Health and Social Services
P.O. Box 110616
Juneau, Alaska 99811-0616
(907) 465-5729
jayne.andreen@alaska.gov

Email the Section of Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion:
hss.cdphp@alaska.gov