The AnchorED City Podcast is connecting with Anchorage’s soul through her history, stories, and people.
Episodes
Monday Nov 07, 2022
Monday Nov 07, 2022
S3:E8 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Foster Care w/ Kim Guay & Naomi Davidson
A story about homelessness that is often told is that young adults exiting the Foster Care system make up a large amount of the homeless population. On this episode we are talking to Kim Guay (Director) & Naomi Davidson (Independent Living Program Coordinator) from the Alaska Office Of Children’s Services about that narrative and all the ways youth in the foster care system are being supported as they transition into adulthood.
Facing Foster Care in Alaska http://www.ffcalaska.org/
facebook.com/FacingFosterCareinAK
@FacingFosterCareAK
Big Brothers Big Sisters – mentorship program https://www.bbbsak.org/
facebook.com/BBBSAK
@BBBSAK
Alaska Department of Family and Community Services - https://dfcs.alaska.gov/
facebook.com/Alaska-Department-of-Family-and-Community-Services-105160088894844
Office of Children’s Services Foster Care Information Page https://dfcs.alaska.gov/ocs/Pages/fostercare/default.aspx
Foster Care Application https://dfcs.alaska.gov/ocs/Documents/FosterCare/FosterCareApplication.pdf
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Monday Oct 31, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
S3:E7 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Mental Health w/ Faith J Myers
Mental Health and homelessness are closely intertwined. On this episode we hear from Faith J. Myers a mental health and psychiatric patient rights activist who draws on her personal experience to seek better care for Alaskans.
Myers is the author of the book “Going Crazy in Alaska: A History of Alaska’s Treatment of Psychiatric Patients” and the eBook “Mental Health Care in Alaska 2022: A Report Card by a Former Psychiatric Patient.”
A commentary connected to this episode can be found at:
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Resources Used to Make This Episode:
Myers, F. J. (2020). Going Crazy in Alaska: A History of Alaska's Treatment of Psychiatric Patients. United States: BookBaby. p. 61ff.
https://www.adn.com/opinions/2021/03/22/doctors-at-api-were-right-50-years-ago/
https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2016/09/23/brother-francis-shelter-marking-35-years-of-caring-pauses-to-remember-its-beginnings/
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Monday Oct 24, 2022
S3:E6 - The Hydra of Homelessness: LGBTQ+ and Homelessness w/ Laura Reijns
LGBTQ+ youth risk homelessness at a rate that is 120% higher than other youth. Join us as we talk to Laura Reijns, the Co-Director of Operations for Choosing Our Roots, about LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness in Anchorage.
facebook.com/choosingourroots
@choosingourroots
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Resources Used to Make This Episode:
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Monday Oct 17, 2022
Monday Oct 17, 2022
On this episode we look at a head of the Homelessness Hydra that might not be the first thing one might think of: public health. Join us for a conversation with Dr. Emily Mosites, Senior Advisor on Special Populations at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
facebook.com/cdc
@cdcgov
www.cdc.gov
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Resources Used to Make This Episode:
Emily Mosites, Emily Eisenberg Lobelo, Laura Hughes, Jay C Butler, Public Health and Homelessness: A Framework, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 226, Issue Supplement_3, 15 October 2022, Pages S372–S374, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiac353
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Monday Oct 10, 2022
The stereotype that is often voiced about those experiencing homelessness is that they are substance abusers, but it’s not that simple according to our guests Jen O’Neal (Clinical Supervisor for Supportive Housing) and Catherine Smith (Peer Support Specialist for Supportive Housing) at Volunteers of America. Join us in learning more about how substance use and abuse interacts with homelessness and why relationship is therapeutic.
https://www.facebook.com/VOAAlaska
@VOAAlaska
#anchoredcity
Resources Used to Make This Episode:
Rocke, K. & Van Dyke, J., 2017, Incarnational training framework: A training guide for developing leaders engaged in city transformation, 2nd edn., Street Psalms Press, Tacoma. P. 49.
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
My co-worker’s daughter asked her recently, “Why don't homeless people who get money save it for housing?" Our guest on this episode, Meg Zaletel has the answer. Zaletel is the Executive Director of The Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness and represents Midtown (District 4) on the Anchorage Assembly. We are talking about affordable housing with her on this episode.
aceh.org
facebook.com/AnchorageHomeless
@anchoragehomeless
https://www.muni.org/Departments/Assembly/Pages/default.aspx
Monday Sep 26, 2022
Monday Sep 26, 2022
S3:E2 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Anchorage’s Homeless History w/ Nancy Burke
Anchorage has been dealing with complex social issues like homelessness for a long time. In this episode we learn more about how the city has responded to homelessness over the years from my guest Nancy Burke. Burke has been involved in responding to homelessness for many years and is currently the Special Assistant for Housing and COVID-19 response at the United Way of Anchorage.
www.facebook.com/liveunitedanc
@liveunitedanc
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Monday Sep 19, 2022
Monday Sep 19, 2022
S3:E1 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Solving Homelessness is a Hard Thing To Do
A pope, a mayor, and an archbishop walk into a podcast. That sounds like the set up for a joke. It’s not. However, in this episode you find out what a Pope, a mayor, and an Arch Bishop – not to mention a rose garden and the mythical beast the Hydra - have to have to do with homelessness in Anchorage.
Join us as we start Season 3 of the AnchorEd City Podcast: The Hydra of Homelessness.
For a good primer on the recent history of homelessness response in the Anchorage check out:
ADN Politics podcast: “The past, present and future of Anchorage homelessness - What happened, why and what’s next in Anchorage’s ongoing and changing homelessness crisis.” https://www.adn.com/politics/2022/08/26/adn-politics-podcast-the-past-present-and-future-of-anchorage-homelessness/
Resources used to make this episode:
https://www.adn.com/opinions/2021/02/26/remembering-alaskas-visit-from-the-pope-40-years-later/
RUNAWAY TEENS FIND SHELTER AT COVENANT
By Larry Campbell - November 2, 1988
Anchorage Daily News (AK) - Page: B1
https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/news/0F78DCC2CFF26855?search_terms
Covenant House Will Offer Care and Love for Our Youth In Need
By Robert B. Flint – May 30, 1988
Anchorage Daily News (AK) – Page: B7
A Home of Last Resort
By Mitch Lipka – March 31, 1987
Anchorage Times – Page: D1
Rosenheck, R., 1994. Homelessness in America. American journal of public health, 84(12), pp.1885-1886.
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.84.12.1885
Christensen, J., Arnfjord, S., Carraher, S. and Hedwig, T., 2017. “Homelessness across Alaska, the Canadian North and Greenland: A review of the literature on a developing social phenomenon in the Circumpolar North”. Arctic, 70(4), pp.349-364.https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic4680
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/humanitarian
https://www.adn.com/opinions/2022/06/17/opinion-moving-forward-on-anchorage-homelessness-solutions/
https://alaskalandmine.podbean.com/e/alexis-johnson-and-corey-allen-young-episode-252/
https://twitter.com/EastAncBookClub
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
BTS 11: EMERGENCY - BACK TO SCHOOL – ENCORE:
A Long Drive To School: A Trailer Park And Its School Zoning
The distances that the youth from the Dimond Estates neighborhood travel to school has been inequitable for years, but in light of the current bus driver shortage in Anchorage it has become a matter of discrimination.
Here is our encore presentation of “A Long Drive To School: A Trailer Park And Its School Zoning” from Last September explaining the historic situation.
We hope you will give it a listen.
We hope even more that you will contact the Anchorage School District to voice you concern and displeasure about the Bussing Situation in Anchorage and discriminatory districting.
Contact the Anchorage School Board at: https://www.asdk12.org/Page/1442
Resources used to make this episode:
Anchorage Daily Times, 1970, ‘Mobile Home Park Has Large Recreation Room’, 19 December 1970, viewed 12 September 2021, from https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16BC7D1719AB9B77@2440940-16BC6DC6F6E133BE@5-16BC6DC6F6E133BE@?search_terms
Anchorage Daily News, 1970, ‘Mobile Home Park Opens For Rental’, 20 December 1970, viewed 12 September 2021, from https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:1445094F387BC7E2@NGPA-AKADN-14653E2BF14E0608@2440941-14653BADDDF0B65B@4-14653BADDDF0B65B@?search_terms
Anchorage Daily News, 2003, ‘High School Boundaries On The Move’, 21 January 2003,
viewed 12 September 2021, from
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https://www.asdk12.org/cms/lib/AK02207157/Centricity/Domain/1204/Ethnicity%202020-2021.pdf
https://www.asdk12.org/domain/1254
https://www.asdk12.org/Page/6696
https://www.asdk12.org/Page/6697
https://www.asdk12.org/Page/6698
Tunseth, M., 2015, ‘Anchorage public schools lead nation in diversity’, 23 May, 2015, Anchorage Daily News, viewed 28 January 2019, from https://www.adn.com/education/article/anchorage-melting- pot-diversity/2015/05/24/.
Jay, Z., 2010. Decoded. Random House, p.218
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
BTS 10: Summer Music Special
Songs are one way to tell a story. In this episode we will talk to a couple musicians (Andy Ball of Rival Dads & Hollis Bryan) who are telling stories through song in Anchorage.
For More:
Rival Dads:
https://www.facebook.com/Rival-Dads-100769102397143
@rivaldadsmusic
https://www.instagram.com/rivaldadsmusic/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/musicpunks
Hollis Bryan:
@hollis_bryan_
@thesundaynights
@mediumbuild
https://www.instagram.com/hollis_bryan_/
https://www.instagram.com/thesundaynights/
https://www.instagram.com/mediumbuild/
hollisbryanmusic@gmail.com
Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
BTS 9:
Turning the Tables w/ Julia O’Malley: The Imagine Project
On our last episode we heard from Julia O’Malley about the stories of Anchorage’s pandemic year that she is compiling. On this episode we turn the tables and Julia interviews Joel Kiekintveld and Jessica Louwerse about the Anchorage Urban Training Collaborative’s Imagine Project.
For More:
Monday May 02, 2022
Monday May 02, 2022
Over the past couple of years the world has experienced a global pandemic. The stories of the pandemic and its effects are as varied as the people that lived through the COVID era. On this episode we are thinking about the pandemic stories of Anchorage with journalist Julia O’Malley.
For More:
https://www.adn.com/tags/neighbors-stories-from-anchorage-s-pandemic-years/
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
BTS 7: 4th Ave. & E St. – The Intersection of Black History Month & Fur Rendezvous
February is Black History month. In Anchorage February also means it’s time for the Fur Rendezvous. At the corner of 4th avenue and E street those two things come together.
Resources used to make this episode:
https://www.furrondy.net/historical-timeline/
https://www.furrondy.net/history/
https://www.adn.com/commentary/article/fur-rondys-anniversary-clock-running-year-fast/2015/02/09/
https://www.gsa.gov/historic-buildings/federal-building-anchorage-ak
https://www.alaskahistory.org/biographies/bevers-beavers-thomas-tom/
Bagoy, J.P., 2001. Legends & Legacies: Anchorage 1910-1935. John P. Bagoy. p.158-159.
https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg13/id/16204/
https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AK-01-SC012
https://www.muni.org/departments/fire/pages/aboutafd.aspx
https://www.adn.com/culture/article/headstone-chief/2015/10/30/
https://www.nps.gov/articles/upload/Alaska-Black-History-4-of-7-Thomas-Bevers-508.pdf
Monday Dec 20, 2021
Monday Dec 20, 2021
BTS 6: Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Christmas Episode!
If you were watching TV in the 1950’s and an episode of Superman came on you would have heard the famous introduction to the show yelled by a crowd gazing heavenward: “Look up in the sky! It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Superman.” But it’s not just superheroes that draw our eyes to the sky, so does Christmas - especially in Alaska. In this episode we look up at a star, airplanes, and a special sleigh and more as we look forward to Christmas.
Resources used to make this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySvAs5ppkRw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dLxtIImtFU
https://www.npr.org/2014/12/19/371647099/norads-santa-tracker-began-with-a-typo-and-a-good-sport
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43171/a-visit-from-st-nicholas
https://www.noradsanta.org/en/
http://www.nikesitesummit.net/about-site-summit.html
https://www.jber.jb.mil/Services-Resources/Environmental/Nike/NSS/
https://www.anchorage.net/blog/post/the-star-on-the-mountain-an-anchorage-holiday-tradition/
https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg2/id/3508/rec/30
https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2020/12/20/in-the-midst-of-the-cold-war-alaskas-effort-to-spread-christmas-cheer-involved-sending-a-small-herd-of-reindeer-to-dc/
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Thanksgiving Leftovers
This is a bonus Thanksgiving Leftovers episode. There were a couple of short stories that we uncovered in putting together our Hope City episode last week that were just too good to not tell.
Resources used to make this episode:
Barry, M.J., 1973. A history of mining on the Kenai Peninsula. Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, p. p.31-32.
https://www.hopeandsunrisehistoricalsociety.org/historic-district
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142104446/gerhardus-johan_gilles-brandt
Monday Nov 22, 2021
Monday Nov 22, 2021
Hope City
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. It’s a story about a King and his gold. A tale of a ghost town that was once the largest city in the territory. A drama with the speed and power of a cannonball. And it all takes place just 25 miles from Anchorage as the crow flies.
Resources used to make this episode:
Olthuis, Diane, 1999. Historic Building Survey Report: Hope, Alaska. Hope and Sunrise Historical Society, p. 38-40.
Barry, M.J., 1973. A history of mining on the Kenai Peninsula. Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, p. p.31-32, 34, 37, 46, 49-50, 52-53.
Morgan, Albert W., & Buzzell, Rolfe G., 2013 (2nd Ed.). Memories of Old Sunrise: Gold Mining on Alaska’s Turnagain Arm. Cook Inlet Historical Society & Hope and Sunrise Historical Society, p. X-XIII.
Carlson, P.D. and Bill, L.D., 2006. Aunt Phil's Trunk: Up to 1900 (Vol. 1, 3rd ed.). Aunt Phil's Trunk, p. 148ff.
Bodett, Tom, 1985. As Far As You Can Go Without a Passport. Perseus Books, p. 118.
https://www.hopealaska.us/about-hope.html
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. 1985. The Bodley Head G.K. Chesterton. London: Bodley Head, p 271.
Rocke, K. & Van Dyke, J., 2017, Incarnational training framework: A training guide for developing leaders engaged in city transformation, 2nd edn., Street Psalms Press, Tacoma, p. 49.