Alaska Advanced Trauma Training Institute

The Alaska Advanced Trauma Training Institute is hosted annually by the Alaska Child Trauma Center with support of the State of Alaska, Division of Behavioral Health.

2023 Conference Info

Download our official 2023 Save the Date Flyer here for more information.

10th annual Alaska Advanced Trauma Training Institute is June 1 & 2, 2023

Traveling to Anchorage?

Alaska Behavioral Health has partnered with the Marriott Anchorage Downtown hotel (next to the Dena’ina Center venue location) to offer a limited number of discounted rooms to Trauma Institute attendees. For a link to book your discounted room, please email Rozel Buzby at rbuzby@akbh.org.

For those individuals needing assistance with travel funds to Anchorage to attend the conference, sponsorship may be available separately to through the Alaska Mental Health Trust. For more information about the Trust’s conference sponsorship application, click here.

2022 Conference Highlights

The 2022 conference provided 10 Continuing Education Credits to 220 attendees from 77 organizations across Alaska.
The 2022 conference provided 10 Continuing Education Credits to 220 attendees from 77 organizations across Alaska.
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Joshua Arvidson, Alaska Behavioral Health’s Chief Operations Officer, provides opening welcome at the 9th Annual Alaska Advanced Trauma Training Institute
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Meda DeWitt presents on Alaska Native Health and Wellness Strategies
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Local business owner Derrick Green shares his story on overcoming trauma
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Dr. Kathleen Chard, co-developer of Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) discusses the topic of trauma memory exposure in trauma treatment
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Dr. Jon Ebert, Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor in Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Vanderbilt University Medical Center presents on Strengthening Psychological Safety in Trauma Serving Systems
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Polly Andrews from Southcentral Foundation’s Wellness Warriors program offers the opening Land Acknowledgment