{"id":385,"date":"2023-05-31T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m-condit.info\/aia\/?post_type=members&#038;p=385"},"modified":"2023-06-01T00:23:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T00:23:19","slug":"elsie-boudreau","status":"publish","type":"members","link":"https:\/\/m-condit.info\/aia\/members\/elsie-boudreau\/","title":{"rendered":"Elsie Boudreau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Elsie Boudreau (Yup\u2019ik name: Apugen) is Master Social Worker (MSW) and a proud Yup\u2019ik Eskimo from the village of St. Mary\u2019s, Alaska. She serves as an Alaska Project Specialist with Tribal Tech, providing training and technical assistance to OVC grantees.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Prior to that, she was a trainer with the Child Welfare Academy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>She currently serves on the Alaska Children\u2019s Justice Act Task Force.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>She has served on the Alaska Children\u2019s Trust board and a workgroup member within the Capacity Building for Tribes.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>She helped establish an Alaska Native Unit within Alaska CARES, a Child Advocacy Center. She provided advocacy services and therapy for families whose child(ren) have been severely physically or sexually abused and conducted forensic interviews. As a prior Children\u2019s Justice Act Project Coordinator for the Tribal Law &amp; Policy Institute, she helped develop an educational video highlighting child sexual abuse in Alaska, grasping the wisdom of Elders, and identifying ways for healing to apply to traumatic experiences. She has also worked with law firms Manly &amp; Stewart and Cooke Roosa Law Group as a Victims Advocate providing support to approximately 300 victims of clergy child sexual abuse in Alaska, South Dakota, Oregon, and Montana. Her advocacy work was featured in many venues including FRONTLINE (PBS) and The Huffington Post.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Elsie is a 2018 recipient of the Bonnie Heavy Runner Advocate award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Elsie has a bachelor\u2019s degree in social work from Carroll College in Helena, Montana, and a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Alaska Anchorage.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>She is married, has 3 children and 2 grandchildren.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>She enjoys working with and for her people and strongly believes that all children have the right to grow up in a safe and loving environment.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u201cChildren are to be SEEN, HEARD and BELIEVED.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":296,"template":"","categories":[9],"class_list":["post-385","members","type-members","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-board-member"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-condit.info\/aia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/members\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-condit.info\/aia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/members"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-condit.info\/aia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/members"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-condit.info\/aia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-condit.info\/aia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-condit.info\/aia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}