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The Pathway Home

What is The Pathway Home?

The Pathway Home is a voluntary, comprehensive, individualized mental health program for adolescents from 13 to 18 years old. Its mission is to create a loving and supportive community environment where Alaska Native children can develop into independent, service-minded, and productive leaders. Referrals come from a variety of sources, including clinicians, case managers, social workers, counselors, parents, teens, or representatives of the state.

Once in the program, The Pathway Home team of clinicians and employees assist youth improve their mental and behavioral health, physical and spiritual wellness, and academic and/or vocational skills.

Through a combination of individual, group, and educational therapy, youth learn healthier methods of managing behavior, handling conflict and anger, progressing in recovery, and improving relationships with family members.

The Pathway Home provides a safe, comfortable, and nurturing environment for adolescent youth. We place emphasis on building and maintaining healthy, positive, and supportive relationships. We support customer-owners and families working through challenges and developing new skills that provide autonomy, preserve values and culture, and provide healthy alternatives to navigate life’s challenges.

Program Highlights

  • Trauma-informed approach, focused on providing support, learning healthy coping skills, and developing mood regulation and frustration tolerance skills.
  • Individual, family, group, milieu, recreational, and substance-use therapy.
  • On-site nursing, medication management, child wellness check, vision and dental care as needed.
  • Individualized treatment programming.
  • Regular access to gym, weight room, rock wall, and art studio.
  • Outdoor recreational activities to include: camping, fishing, hiking, biking, and more.
  • Other recreational activities to include: arts and crafts, volunteer work, exposure to new hobbies, and other activities in the community.
  • Cultural opportunities: Alaska Native arts and craft, Alaska Native dancing, singing, drumming, Native Youth Olympics, drum and dance fan making, beading, story telling, and more.

Contact Us

Phone
907-729-5020

Toll Free
877-304-8126

Fax
907-729-5051

Hours
8 a.m.-7 p.m.
Monday-Friday

9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday

4000 San Ernesto Avenue
Anchorage, AK 99508

Admission Criteria

  • Must exhibit behaviors that are severe enough to impact ability to function safely in the community in which they live.
  • A subsequent substance use disorder may also be present, but secondary to emotional and behavioral problems.
  • Failure at a lower level of care (outpatient therapy) or lacks the resources and support in their communities to meet their needs.
  • Must have difficulty managing one or more areas of their lives: family, school, or community, and is at increased risk of continued poor adjustment and worsening conditions.
  • At an increased risk of continued decline in functioning.
  • There is reasonable expectation that the youth has made a commitment to and is able to engage in the program.
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Application Process

  • Complete the application, Release of Information, and attach any collateral from previous treatment/care.
  • Release of Information (ROI) — Authorizes The Pathway Home to discuss personal health information with a previous provider or a potential new provider.
  • Collateral — Documentation on the person’s progress, services received, and other personal health information from a facility where services were provided.
  • Upon review of collateral information, the intake clinician will contact the referral source to schedule an interview with the youth.
  • The referral will be presented and reviewed by the intake team that will make a decision on admission.
  • The family/referring individual will be notified of the decision.
  • If accepted, an admission date will be scheduled.

If you are a parent or referral agency seeking information or are interested in admitting an individual into our program for care, please fill out our contact form.

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