Restorative justice is a method of resolution wherein people who are affected by a crime work together to address the harm caused and put things right.
Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence
Tribes, State Troopers increase access to justice for Alaska Native survivors of domestic violence
Alaska State Troopers received new training in October aimed at keeping tribal citizens safer.
Alaska pays millions to respond to domestic violence. Advocates want millions to prevent it
They say significant increases in prevention work and community level support are necessary to slow the rate of domestic violence.
To prevent domestic violence, Alaska schools teach healthy relationships
The Lower Kuskokwim School District’s itinerant social workers are a model for how curriculum and mentorship can reach even the most remote schools.
Alaska doctor wheels hope to survivors of traumatic brain injury in his ‘Brain Bus’
He says treatment can help unhoused people, survivors of domestic violence.
Domestic Violence in Alaska: Advocates link Alaska’s high rate of traumatic brain injury with domestic violence
Alaska has the highest rate of deaths from traumatic brain injury in the nation and among the highest rates of domestic violence, but it is only recently that advocates and caregivers began to link the two.
Domestic Violence in Alaska: A crisis at home
Survivors and advocates shed light on how far the state has come and the work yet to be done.
After 2 years, still no trial date for Juneau chiropractor charged with assaulting patients
Fultz now faces 19 counts of felony sexual assault and misdemeanor harassment. Some of those charges are for alleged assaults that date back to 2014.
Two men say they were sexually abused as children at Juneau’s Echo Ranch Bible Camp
Both men say Bradley Earl Reger’s trips to Echo Ranch gave him access to children with little or no supervision from other adults.
California man charged with sexually abusing boys had long association with Juneau bible camp
Bradley Earl Reger volunteered Echo Ranch Bible Camp as a nurse and counselor starting in the 1970s. At least one former Juneau resident who met him there says he was abused by Reger, though not at the camp.