Men’s Engagement

Haven House prevention is working a few avenues to engage men in violence prevention.  Homer men’s leadership forum is a men’s group built around discussions about how men and boys relate to each other and women.  Through meetings and events we discuss issues and support each other in building a healthy masculinity that protects everyone from violence.  

Prevention staff is also involved on a statewide level with this effort by engaging with the Alaska Men’s gatherings.

We also develop a training for male mentors of young men.  The training uses previous strategies such as Compass: A Guide for Men, that was developed by the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, as well as other evidence based programs and evidence informed strategies.  

Southern Kenai Peninsula Resiliency Coalition

Haven House is also a participating agency in the Southern Kenai Peninsula Resiliency Coalition. The vision of the Resiliency Coalition is: Communities on the Southern Kenai Peninsula support healthy relationships and resilient families, free from violence and substance abuse. The coalition has two over-arching goals:

1.  To be a trauma-informed community. Develop a trauma-informed community that recognizes the effects of trauma with a shared understanding and responds in an empathic and helpful way.

2. To work collaboratively to increase family resiliency and prevent substance abuse, violence and trauma in our community.

For more information about the Southern Kenai Peninsula Resiliency Coalition, visit  http://mappofskp.net/projects/skpresilience/

History and Hope

Members of our prevention team were some of the first people in Alaska to be trained in this groundbreaking training, we look forward to training others in our community upon request. 

The “History & Hope” training introduces the audience to the adverse childhood experiences study, and addresses the question “Why are adverse childhood experiences so adverse, and what can we do about it?” Bringing together Alaska Native ancestral knowledge of trauma and resilience; the sciences of neurobiology, physiology, and epigenetics; data on social and economic stressors affecting Alaskan families; simple brain-body healing exercises; and promising practices in education and early childhood settings, this presentation provides an introduction to how trauma-informed, culturally-responsive approaches in healthcare and education can help shift our most pressing health and social problems.