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3900 Ambassador Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508.

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Oct 10

It is important to clearly communicate your boundaries with your family‍ 👨🏽‍👩🏽‍👧🏽‍👦🏽, friends 👯🏽 and partners 👨🏽‍❤️‍👨🏽. This way, they can show you respect and honor. If someone has made you uncomfortable, or if your boundaries have changed, you can practice sharing a new boundary with them through these steps:

👁 Use “I” Statements
👄 Clearly express how you feel, what you think and what you want
🫶🏾 Be aware of your body language
❤️ Communicate your feelings

Here’s an example of what the two people might say to each other below when it comes to boundaries when someone wants to ice fish real close to your spot!
“GEE!” or
“Gee, I feel like it’s crowded here. Please go fish down river some more.”

The iKnowMine Youth Advisory Board helped to develop a coloring book that helps people to learn more about how to communicate their boundaries. Check it out at: https://www.iknowmine.org/goals

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Oct 8

Join the Healthy Native Youth team TOMORROW 10/9 for the HNY Community of Practice! ❤
Tomorrow's session is on 'Building Community with Youth' & it starts at 9am AK time.
Open for teachers, parents, community health educators, tribal partners or anyone working towards a healthier future for our Native youth. We hope to see you there!
Not able to make it? The session will be recorded and posted on the HNY website!
Link in bio!

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Oct 4

Condom dispensers can now be found in ANTHC buildings throughout the Alaska Native Health Campus!

Over this last year, the @anthctoday iKnowMine team took the initiative to install condom dispensers throughout the campus! Through our efforts, we hope to meet people where they’re at to:

❤️ make access to safer sex supplies low-barrier and
❤️ prevent the spread of Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV

Kudos to our partners, as well as our health-centered leaders, who helped to make this happen. QUYANA CAKNEQ, thank you very much, for your commitment to deliver excellent services that improve the health and wellness of our community, and for taking the initiative to protect our people from HIV and STI transmission and for promoting healthy actions and lifestyles.
Link in bio to learn more. ☺️

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Oct 3

Boundaries are essential to accomplishing your goals. Boundaries are guidelines that you define in your relationships with other people and may change over time. You will be able to recognize a personal boundary you have by identifying actions that make you comfortable ✅or uncomfortable ❌.
It’s okay to set boundaries because what you want is important too. ❤️

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Sep 26

*Update!*
Giveaway EXTENDED!
We are extending this opportunity for the Elder's and Youth & AFN Conferences! You can now share this post until 10/18 at 12pm. The winner will be drawn that afternoon.

Original:
📣📣 GIVEAWAY OPEN until 10/10! 📣📣
We are recruiting for the iKnowMine Youth Advisory Board (YAB)! Do you, or someone you know, meet the following criteria:
👉🏽 Between 12-17 years old
👉🏽 Has access to Zoom or can meet in-person in Anchorage
👉🏽 Interested in community health

Youth from around Alaska will work together on public health projects that impact you and your communities. Each youth will receive a 💰 $50 gift card 💰 after each meeting.
Anyone in Alaska can share this post on their story and slide a screenshot in our DMs to be entered to win one of the following prizes:
💳 1 $200 Big Ray's Gift Card
💳 1 of 10 $50 Visa Gift Cards
Winners will be contacted on 10/11.
Link in bio for the YAB application. DM us with questions!

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Sep 26

How do you “keep it real” among your friends, family and yourself? 🤔Keeping it real means staying true to yourself or choosing your personal rules that best represent who you want to be.

Setting goals is a very learnable and important life skill. Goals provide us with guidance and often set the direction for our lives. Did you know that the only person who can set your intention or your goal is you?

To learn more about what kind of goals you could set, check out the iKnowMine Youth Advisory Board's coloring book! Link in bio 🤗

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Sep 23

🎉🎉Giveaway time! 🎉🎉

Waqaa! Cama’i! 👋🏾
September is Sexual Health Awareness Month. This month’s theme ‘Spawn Safely Awareness’ encourages everyone to consider the importance of their own sexual health. 🤗
Each week’s questionnaire focuses on different ways to consider how your sexual health matters and makes a difference to you, your family and your communities.
This year, to honor ‘Spawn Safely Awareness’ we are doing a giveaway contest for Alaskans statewide! This giveaway features a full-zip qaspeq voucher to Alaska's own Frozen Stitches!

Link in bio to enter!

The giveaway is for Alaskans only, so only people with a valid Alaska mailing address are eligible to win. One entry per person, per week.

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium

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Sep 16

🎉🎉Giveaway time! 🎉🎉

Waqaa! Cama’i! 👋🏾
September is Sexual Health Awareness Month. This month’s theme ‘Spawn Safely Awareness’ encourages everyone to consider the importance of their own sexual health. 🤗
Each week’s questionnaire focuses on different ways to consider how your sexual health matters and makes a difference to you, your family and your communities.
This year, to honor ‘Spawn Safely Awareness’ we are doing a giveaway contest for Alaskans statewide! This giveaway features a full-zip qaspeq voucher to Alaska's own Frozen Stitches!

Link in bio to enter!

The giveaway is for Alaskans only, so only people with a valid Alaska mailing address are eligible to win. One entry per person, per week.

@anthctoday

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Sep 9

🎉🎉Giveaway time! 🎉🎉

Waqaa! Cama’i! 👋🏾
September is Sexual Health Awareness Month. This month’s theme ‘Spawn Safely Awareness’ encourages everyone to consider the importance of their own sexual health. 🤗
Each week’s questionnaire focuses on different ways to consider how your sexual health matters and makes a difference to you, your family and your communities.
This year, to honor ‘Spawn Safely Awareness’ we are doing a giveaway contest for Alaskans statewide! This giveaway features a full-zip qaspeq voucher to Alaska's own Frozen Stitches!

Enter here! It’s quick, easy and free! https://www.iknowmine.org/sti-quiz/

The giveaway is for Alaskans only, so only people with a valid Alaska mailing address are eligible to win. One entry per person, per week.

@anthctoday

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Sep 2

🎉🎉Giveaway time! 🎉🎉

Waqaa! Cama’i! 👋🏾
September is Sexual Health Awareness Month. This month’s theme ‘Spawn Safely Awareness’ encourages everyone to consider the importance of their own sexual health. 🤗
Each week’s questionnaire focuses on different ways to consider how your sexual health matters and makes a difference to you, your family and your communities.
This year, to honor ‘Spawn Safely Awareness’ we are doing a giveaway contest for Alaskans statewide! This giveaway features a full-zip qaspeq voucher to Alaska's own Frozen Stitches!

Enter here! It’s quick, easy and free! https://www.iknowmine.org/hiv-quiz/

The giveaway is for Alaskans only, so only people with a valid Alaska mailing address are eligible to win. One entry per person, per week.

@anthctoday

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Mar 31

🎉🎉Giveaway time! 🎉🎉

This year, in honor of National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, we’re doing a giveaway contest for Alaskans statewide! Today is the LAST day to enter!
This year's giveaway includes items from Alaska Native owned and operated small businesses🥰:

💳a $199 gift card to @naataq_gear
👕a handmade qaspeq voucher from @frozenstitchesqaspeq
❤️a few swag packs from iKnowMine featuring our well-loved T-Shirts from the Wrap it Up Campaign!

Enter here! It’s quick, easy and free! https://www.iknowmine.org/hiv-quiz/

The giveaway is for Alaskans only, so only people with a valid Alaska mailing address are eligible to win. One entry per person.

#NNHAAD #nnhaad #nnhaad2024 #hiv #HIV #HIVTesting #hivtesting

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Mar 21

Happening TODAY at the Homer, AK Movie Theater!
In honor of National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, there will be a FREE movie screening of RENT! 🎥🍿
The movie explores a fictional representation of an HIV-positive community, with a variety of characters dealing with HIV and AIDS that come from different life perspectives.
Doors open at 5:30pm.❤️
We hope to see you there!

Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic Ninilchik Community Clinic
Images sourced from the Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic
#hiv #RENTmovie #hivtesting #nnhaad

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Mar 21

🎉🎉Giveaway time! 🎉🎉

Waqaa! Cama’i! March marks the month for National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NNHAAD), observed every year on the first day of Spring. This year’s theme ‘It’s all Relative, Our Experience Makes a Difference’ encourages everyone to remember, honor and center Native people in HIV awareness and outreach.

This year, in honor of NNHAAD, we’re doing a giveaway contest for Alaskans statewide! This year's giveaway highlights Alaska Native owned and operated small businesses🥰:

💳a $199 gift card to @naataq_gear
👕a handmade qaspeq voucher from @frozenstitchesqaspeq
❤️a few swag packs from iKnowMine featuring our well-loved T-Shirts from the Wrap it Up Campaign!

Enter here! It’s quick, easy and free! https://www.iknowmine.org/hiv-quiz/

The giveaway is for Alaskans only, so only people with a valid Alaska mailing address are eligible to win. One entry per person.

#NNHAAD #nnhaad #nnhaad2024 #hiv #HIV #HIVTesting #hivtesting

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Mar 20

National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NNHAAD) is observed each year on the first day of Spring, March 20. This year’s theme ‘It’s all Relative, Our Experience Makes a Difference’ encourages everyone to remember, honor and center Native people in HIV awareness and outreach.
On this day, we encourage all communities to honor those who are living with or affected by HIV, as well as to honor those who have passed as a result of AIDS-related complications.

Learn more about this year’s NNHAAD theme at nnhaad.org.
@nativehiv

#hiv #hivtesting #nnhaad

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Mar 1

🎉🎉Giveaway time! 🎉🎉

Waqaa! Cama’i! March marks the month for National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NNHAAD), observed every year on March 20. This year’s theme ‘It’s all Relative, Our Experience Makes a Difference’ encourages everyone to remember, honor and center Native people in HIV awareness and outreach.

On this day, we encourage all communities to honor those who are living with or affected by HIV, as well as honor those who have passed due to AIDS-related complications.

This year, in honor of NNHAAD, we’re doing a giveaway contest for Alaskans statewide! This year's giveaway features:
💳a $199 gift card to Alaska’s own Naataq Gear LLC
👕a handmade qaspeq from an Alaskan Native artist, and
❤️a few swag packs from iKnowMine featuring our well-loved T-Shirts from the Wrap it Up Campaign!

Enter here! It’s quick, easy and free! https://www.iknowmine.org/hiv-quiz/

The giveaway is for Alaskans only, so only people with a valid Alaska mailing address are eligible to win. Entries are accepted until the end of March & winners will be contacted in the first week of April. One entry per person.

National Native HIV Network National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NNHAAD) @naataq_gear NaataqGear

#NNHAAD #nnhaad #nnhaad2024 #hiv #HIV #HIVTesting #hivtesting

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Jan 6

iKnowMine.org makes harm reduction supplies easily accessible to people across Alaska. Through these low-barrier efforts, we hope to meet people where they’re at in order to prevent the spread of HIV, sexually transmitted infections and opioid overdose.

Selling supplies received from iKnowMine.org is NOT allowed. We take every effort to ensure that our HIV and STI testing supplies and prevention are accessible to everyone. Everyone has the right to know their status and protect themselves from preventable conditions.

If you see our supplies for sale anywhere either online or in person, please let us know right away and we’ll do what we can to continue to make these supplies available.

Community organizations, Tribal health organizations and nonprofits: Request posters from iKnowMine.org to post in your spaces that advertises these supplies to Alaskans statewide, for FREE, from our website.

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Dec 1

World AIDS Day is an annual event to end the struggle to HIV-related stigma, support people living with HIV and honor those who have died due to HIV/AIDS. This World AIDS Day marks 35 years of work to raise awareness, education and treatment options and prevention. On this 35-year anniversary, we also remember that we each have a collective responsibility to act.

We can each do this through:
- Commitments to creating safe spaces that are inclusive of people who live with HIV.
- Stop the spread of inaccurate information about HIV, and start learning the facts at iknowmine.org/hiv.
- Access to PEP and PrEP to reduce new infections and syringe services and overdose prevention programs.
- Education about testing options that are available to you and promote them in your community.

Here’s a few testing options:
1) The CDC testing locator can be found at https://gettested.cdc.gov/
2) Get people connected to iKnowMine.org for free HIV self-test kits.
3) Share with others that they can text NATIVE TEST to 94449 to order a free HIV self-test kit through texting!

Remember that your voice matters. Our programs and initiatives thrive the most when led by the community – by YOU! Keep sharing about HIV testing and prevention! Learn more about HIV at http://iknowmine.org/hiv.

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Aug 19

Your boundaries are yours to build! 🦾

Sometimes, it can be hard to know if a relationship is something you’re enthusiastic about or want 100% want. A good option is to wait until you figure out what you want before moving forward. You could start by asking your head, heart and body a few questions:
🤔 How is this activity affecting me right now spiritually, mentally, physically and emotionally? How will it impact me in the future, like tomorrow?
💜 Do I like this person? Can I trust them?
🚶 What is my ‘gut feeling’ telling me about this?
🚶 Are my physical boundaries being respected by the other person?

If your head, heart and body aren’t in agreement with what you want, it’s likely not a good time to engage in the activity. It is always ok to say ‘no’ and set firm boundaries. ❤️

Learn more about boundaries and consent at: www.iknowmine.org/topic/consent/ (link in bio)

#consentissexy #healthyrelationships

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Jul 29

What is the vulva and why is it important to know?
The term 'vulva' describes the external genitalia of people assigned female at birth.

Everyone's vulva looks a little different, but they're all made up of the same basic parts.
💜 Labia (lips): the folds of skin around the vaginal opening. There are two parts: the labia majora (outer lips) and labia minora (inner lips).
❤️ Clitoris: located at the top of the vulva, where the inner lips meet. Fun fact - only a small part of the clitoris is ever shown, the majority of the clitoris is located inside the body.
💜 Urethral opening: the tiny hole that pee comes out of, just below the clitoris.
❤️ Vaginal opening: The opening right below the urethral opening.

Becoming familiar with vulva anatomy can help you make informed choices about your health. Generally, a good time to loop in a provider about vulval health is:
💜 During a regular physical check-up
❤️ If you experience any itching or burning
💜 If you're pregnant or plan to become pregnant
❤️ If you're at risk for HIV or sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
💜 Any time you feel like something may be out of the ordinary or not normal for your body

Learn more about vulvas at Planned Parenthood's site: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/teens/puberty/my-vulva-and-vagina-normal

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Jul 20

It's time for summer mindfulness!

As Alaskans, we often work hard and play harder - especially during summer. Remember to take time for yourself to stay centered and practice mindfulness. Here are some ideas to practice mindfulness throughout the summer months:
😎 Go play out!
As easy as it sounds, go outside, slow down and just enjoy the sun!

🫐 Harvest plants.
Whether it's berry picking or something else, take some time to practice gratitude and reflect on your intentions while harvesting.

🪡 Try a new hobby.
Maybe it's time to finally take up that beading course and make yourself a pair of earrings!

⛺️ Go camping.
It doesn't have to be a grand adventure - somewhere close to home is fine. Take some time to unplug and enjoy the simpler things in life.

Remember, these are just suggestions! Do what works best for you. 🙂

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