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Assisted Living Services

The Kotzebue Senior Citizens Center is a licensed, 20-bed assisted-living facility that provides regional elders with a safe, comfortable setting to live while maintaining individual independence and dignity. Residents receive meals, assistance with medication, grooming and other personal care according to their individual needs. The program also offers a transient room for elders coming to Kotzebue for medical or social appointments and need a place to overnight.

Food Preservation

Food Preservation promotes self-sufficiency and improves the diets of Alaska Natives by planting vegetable starts, testing and modifying soil to increase yield, and providing on-site gardening assistance. The program also provides financial support to Camp Sivunnigvik and teaches food preservation classes in salting and pickling fish and jam making with fresh berries.

Home Care Services

Administered through the Kotzebue Senior Citizens Cultural Center, Home Care provides Personal Care Attendants and Chore Service Providers to elderly and disabled residents of the Northwest Arctic Borough and Point Hope. This program enables individuals whose medical needs would otherwise require placement in an acute or long term facility to remain safely and comfortably in their own home.

Iñupiat Illitqusiat

Iñupiat Illitqusiat strives to preserve traditional values and skills by teaching Iñupiat values, survival skills, language and history to residents in the Maniilaq Association service area. Iñupiat Illitqusiat participates in Iñupiat Days at various school sites and provides cultural orientation to new Maniilaq employees.

Pre-Maternal Home

Pre-Maternal Home provides a clean, safe, home-like residence for expectant mothers while they await the birth of their baby. Expectant mothers receive counseling, program referrals, childbirth information, and regular prenatal and postpartum check-ups.

Traditional Foods

Traditional Foods provides supplemental fish and game to elders aged sixty and over in Kotzebue. Through the Hunter Support agreement, the program also provides support funds for tribal governments to enable local volunteers to purchase ammunition, gas, and oil to hunt for village elders who are no longer able to harvest traditional foods on their own.

Tribal Doctor

The Tribal Doctor program provides a holistic approach to health services using traditional medicine and healing techniques. When appropriate, Tribal Doctors refer patients to the Maniilaq Health Center for additional treatment.