2004: Chugachmiut is a regional non-profit consortium promoting self-determination to the seven tribes of the Chugach Region. The Community Based Offender Management Program proposes to develop and implement a comprehensive and effective sex offender management system for the Native communities of Nanwalek and Port Graham, Alaska. Port Graham and Nanwalek lie in the Chugach Region of Alaska which spans some 15,000 square miles. The project will proceed through the four phases of planning and capacity building, program implementation, evaluation and program modification, and finally, dissemination. Objectives to accomplish the goals of this project include: solidifying working relationships with tribal governments; acquiring faith-based personnel; acquiring specialized services of a psychologist or mental health professional in the area of posttraumatic stress disorder: providing training and education on specialized treatment and management services; developing village-based protocols consistent with the State of Alaska regulations and guidelines for the areas of offender assessment, treatment, reentry, supervision, and community notification; establishing program evaluation protocols; and implementation of established protocols.
2002: In 2002, the Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) had a total of 700 sex offenders incarcerated in their state prisons with an additional 673 sex offenders under community supervision. Through this grant, the DOC proposed to establish reentry programming for sex offenders returning to the town of Bethel and the 58 surrounding remote villages. In response to the increasing numbers of sex offenders returning to these communities that are lacking in specialized treatment service, they sought support to establish rural sex offender management protocols while considering the cultural needs of the population and building on the restorative justice practices already widely adopted in the region. Grant funds were used to assist two villages (Quinhagak and Hooper Bay) and one hub community (Bethel) to fill significant gaps through the establishment of two pilot Risk Management Teams.
