The Parenting Program is a 12-week curriculum that covers a range of topics including: age- appropriate behavior, parenting effectively, appropriate discipline, and dissecting parenting behaviors that the women have learned from their families in order to determine its influence on their own parenting style.

The Family Violence Program is a 12-week curriculum that covers new topics every week on violence and other controlling behaviors. Topics include the effect of violence on others, identifying rape, cycles of battering, child abuse, effects of violence on women and children, and more.

The purpose of the Parenting Program is to prepare students for the multiple roles essential to becoming a model parent and to understand the dual roles of males and females as parents and wage earners. This course will also enhance their abilities to assist children to become effective citizens in a multicultural and technological society.

Women incarcerated in the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility take classes on anger management, behavior modification and relapse prevention, all taught by Sister Lee Ann McNally, RSM. These 90 minute classes are taught once a week. All classes are voluntary. The average class member usually attends for a period of three to six months, though some attend for a year or more and some are only incarcerated for a few weeks. 

A New Way of Life’s core programming supports paroling women in taking small but significant steps toward reestablishing their lives. Program staff help residents obtain a California ID and Social Security card, apply for public assistance when appropriate, and deal with debt, such as child support, that they may have incurred while in prison. This program provides support to clients when they attend court appearances, report to parole officers, and when meeting the conditions of their parole or probation.

Akeela recognizes the need for low-cost, clean and sober housing for recovering substance abusers who are transitioning from substance abuse treatment to life in the community. Locating safe, clean, and sober housing is a key to long term sobriety. Akeela has addressed that need by providing 11 sleeping-room-only units attached to the Therapeutic Community program. In addition, the program has 13 two-bedroom apartments and one three-bedroom apartment.

Stepping Stones is a residential drug and alcohol treatment program offering services for pregnant women and women with children. For over 30 years, Stepping Stones has been assisting women, their families, and their children to start their journey of recovery. Steps uses evidence based therapies that are specific to meeting the needs of women and children to promote the best recovery outcomes. The program is unique in Alaska in that women are permitted to bring their children into the treatment facility where they live as a family in a two-bedroom apartment while attending treatment.

The Family Care Court (FCC) program is based in family court where “Child in Need of Aid” cases are heard. The women referred to this court are near the point of losing custody of their children permanently. The issue is treated as a family matter and a court team including the Judge, Attorney General Representative, Guardian Ad Li Dum, Office of Children’s Service (OCS), and Akeela follows the progress of the family. Staff, with the family, discusses their progress, needs, successes, and failures.

Akeela’s Women’s Outpatient Program provides general and intensive outpatient services to women with a variety of substance abuse issues. Program participants frequently have ongoing issues with the Office Children’s Services, have no or low-paying employment, and often have histories of abusive relationships. While they assess as an ASAM I to an ASAM II.1, they bring with them a variety of personal problems that compound their substance abuse dependency.

Akeela’s general outpatient program is an ASAM (American Society of Addition Medicine) Level I program. It primarily serves substance abusers who assess at the lowest level of addiction, who have a job, and a solid personal support system. The program is a fee-based program, so clients must have the personal means to pay for treatment, have personal insurance, or be eligible for Medicaid. Often the clients in this program have committed a substance abuse driving offense or some other minor offense involving substances. It is a co-ed program.