Vision: Sitka is an equitable community where we hold each other up to reach our individual and collective full potential.
The Pathways to a Safer Sitka Coalition is a group of local agencies and individuals working together to create a healthier, more equitable community. We aim to reduce negative health outcomes, such as domestic violence, substance abuse, and suicide by building equitable, accessible, and culturally-responsive services and systems.
Lingít Aaní
The members of the Pathways to a Safer Sitka Coalition live, work, and gather on Lingít Aaní, the unceded, ancestral lands of the Lingít people. Gunalchéesh to the Lingít people for stewarding this land since time immemorial and allowing us to be here as guests in beautiful Sheet’ká.
Current Happenings
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Are you a teen interested in presenting to your peers about healthy and unhealthy relationships in our schools and community? Become a Peer Educator! You'll develop leadership skills while promoting respect, equity, and healthy relationships. For more information or questions, email sylcintern@gmail.com
Are you a teen interested in developing your leadership skills and promoting respect, equity, and healthy relationships in our schools and communities? If so, join the Sitka Youth Leadership Committee! SYLC is currently launching our Mold Your Masculinity campaign, developing a mental health campaign, and offering healthy relationships education in the schools and community! If you have any questions, please email sylcintern@gmail.com.
Our Work's Path
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Stepping Stones to Success
Identify the problem (e.g., community needs assessment)
Develop shared vision and goals
Identify shared risk and protective factors
Coordinate and align activities
Select shared outcomes and measures to track progress
Create theory of change
“We came together from many different agencies and roles to find common language, goals, measures, and strategies - not just once but through years of commitment. Sitka has often had the appearance of an abundance of resources for families, but in reality those concurrent and even competing programs are confusing and often short-lived. Pathways has created a more effective way to do our work, together.”
-Pathways Partner