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Supporting our future.

Whether you’re improving your professional prowess, increasing your leadership skills, or looking for support with your patients, ANTHC wants to help. We’ve developed programs, certifications and scholarships to ensure that Alaska Native people thrive in the field of health care and that more Alaska Native people are in positions of management and leadership.

Provider Support and Training

As a provider, you want to give the best care possible to your patients. As a community, you want to provide the services your people need. Our programs and training ensure that Alaska Native people have access to the highest levels of care, when and where they need it.

Whether you’re a provider looking for help with a challenging case or a community needing guidance for building a new health care infrastructure, optimizing your outcomes, or training your team, we have the resources and support you need.

Programs and Services:

  • Diagnostic X-Ray Imaging Course
  • HIV/AIDS Early Intervention Services
  • Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO)
  • Telehealth – for Providers

Professional Development and Leadership

When one of us improves our skills, we all thrive.

Maybe you’re interested in expanding your career skills or wanting to take a new course to hone your leadership skills. Whatever your goal, ANTHC and Alaska Pacific University want to help you to achieve it.

ANTHC thanks Alaska Pacific University for its continued dedication to higher education, leadership development and the advancement of health care practitioners through certificates, courses, training, and associate, bachelor and master’s degree programs.

Programs and Services:

  • ANTHC Professional Development
  • ANTHC Leadership Development

Alaska Health Aide Programs

Care close to home. The Alaska Health Aide Program trains people across the state to provide behavioral, community and dental health aid in their home communities.

Together, we’ve created a workforce of over 500 Community Health Aides or Practitioners (CHA/Ps), more than 100 Behavioral Health AIdes or Practitioners (BHA/P), and over 70 Dental Health Aide Therapists (DHAT) serving the health care needs of Alaska Native people in more than 170 unique communities throughout our state. Become one of many who make a difference.

Programs and Services:

  • Behavioral Health Aides (BHAs)
  • Community Health Aides (CHA/Ps)
  • Dental Health Aide Therapists (DHATs)

Scholarships

Your goal is to finish your degree. Our goal is to lessen the financial hardship of school so you can focus on what matters most.

Our scholarships support Alaska Native and American Indian people and ANTHC employees pursuing a career in health care. Find your next scholarship today!

Scholarship Opportunities

  • Board of Directors Scholarship
  • Alaska Pacific University Scholarship Program
  • Indian Health Service (IHS) Scholarship Program