Northwest Arctic Leadership Team

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Northwest Arctic Leadership Team

• A Collaborative Approach

Arctic Economic Development Summit Barrow, Alaska
Vision Our People are Healthy Physically,
Spiritually and Mentally
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Regional Organizations Form Leadership Team

• Northwest Arctic Borough School District
  (Superintendent Board President)
• Maniilaq Association (Board Chair Association
  President)
• Northwest Arctic Borough (Mayor Assembly
  President)
• Nana Regional Corporation (Board Chair
  Corporation President/CEO)

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Regional Organization Leadership
(left to right) Marie Greene , Helen Bolen, Ross
Schaeffer, Bob Boyle
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Leadership Team Works Together to

• Serve the people of the region
• Maximize resources and minimize duplication
• Promote strategies through grassroots efforts

• Be a steering committee to examine various
  region-wide issues
• Find solutions
• Recommend policy and resource allocation

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Quad Meeting Purpose

• Strengthen cooperative efforts and provide forum
  to hear information together
• Incorporate the processes set in past regional
  strategies
• Establish priorities to share with each community
  and further develop a unified approach to address
  the critical issues identified together

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Critical Focus Areas

• Healthy Communities and Wellness
• Inupiaq Language and Culture
• Workforce Development and Education
• Infrastructure and Basic Services
• Economic Development

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Timeline . . .

• May 2004 Plan a regional strategy effort that
  will promote local ownership for the issues
  and solutions.
• June August 2004 Invite the groups working on
  the issues to present their recommendations.
• September 2004 Invite the Boards/Assembly to
  come together for a Quad meeting to include
  Regional Elders and students
• December 2004 Clarify which legislative
  priorities to focus on together
• February-March 2005 Team to meet with residents
  in each community.
• April-May 2005 Develop a plan that will be a
  collaborative approach for working on the
  critical issues together.
• June-August 2005 Each organization to review
  the plan for implementation.

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Quad Meeting Results

• State of the Organization Addresses
• Reports from various groups on the critical focus
  areas
• A list of critical actions were developed
• Agreements as to which organization will lead or
  follow up on the desired outcomes

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Community Meetings Purpose

• Share information about the cooperation between
  our organizations
• Learn about how critical focus areas affect your
  community
• Identify ways we can work together
• Develop partnership agreements

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Community Presentations

• Long-term vision for our regional organizations
• Top priority issues currently impacting our
  regional organizations
• Actions taken by our regional organizations to
  address the issues
• Strategies and potential partnership
  recommendations

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What we hope to accomplish

• Collaboration
• Commitments from all
• individual
• organizational
• community

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Summary

• Our vision is to have Our People Healthy
  Physically, Spiritually and Mentally
• As a result of our combined efforts, we will have
  strong, active, effective individuals,
  leadership, and healthy communities.

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• Tuvra!
• Aarigaa Taikuu