Provide human development, social services, and other culturally relevant programs for the people, and to promote self-determination, protection and enhancement of our culture and traditions through a working partnership with member villages, of the yukon-kuskokwim delta.

Human Service Organizations , Human Services

Transportation department: through the work of this department, the association of village council presidents (avcp) promotes the economic development of our region's villages through planning, designing, constructing and maintaining priority projects in the avcp region. Our transportation program has developed long range transportation plans for the tribes compacted with avcp with copies of the plans distributed to each tribe, developed scoping reports for all compacted villages, and submitted and added numerous miles of facilities and proposed facilities to the tribes' irr inventory. The avcp transportation department carefully monitors the trends in infrastructure funding. In 2015 this program:1. Continued work on projects in scammon bay and eek which employed 36 and 44 employees respectively in each community. 2. Began new projects in the villages of chevak, kongiganak, and alakanuk with a total of 62 additional temporary employees. self-governance: through these funds, avcp operates ten (10) different programs which provide many services to our member tribes and individual tribal members; including indian child welfare services, general assistance, burial assistance, child care services, higher education scholarships, probate and other land title services which ensure that all real estate transactions comply with nhpa, nepa and nagpra, and natural resource protection and development. Additionally, on behalf of our fully-compacted tribes, avcp provides pass-through funding, employee remuneration, and on-going training and support to develop the capacity of these tribes and promote their self-determination. Avcp negotiates, develops and monitors compliance with applicable tribal, federal, and state laws, regulations, contracts, cooperative agreements, memoranda of understanding, and/or memoranda of agreements that impact tribal sovereignty. Our tribes can compact for any or all of these programs each year. In 2015, the office of self governance funding furthered the following results:1. Our indian child welfare department represented 398 children in the avcp region, monitoring each child's progress in the child welfare system, and advocating in court on behalf of the child's tribe. Also in 2015, avcp increased prevention efforts to reduce the number of children entering the child welfare system in collaboration with the tanf department. This effort identifies families at risk and provides referrals and assistance in obtaining services. 2. Our tribal service department provided an intensive grant writing seminar for tribal administrators from around the avcp region, as well as quickbooks training for bookkeepers. 3. 42 tribes compacted for higher education services through our education, employment and training (ee&t) department. Altogether 159 students received higher education funding assistance. 4. 40 tribes compacted for job placement and training services through the ee&t department and altogether 39 clients received job placement and funding assistance. 5. 107 families in the avcp region and 238 children received childcare services through our ee&t department. 6. Through our hip program, avcp constructed a public safety building for the village public safety officer program as well as 5 residential homes in the avcp region. 7. The natural resources department continued to work with our tribes on the kuskokwim and yukon rivers to develop the capacity of the inter-tribal fish commissions. President obama recognized this effort when he visited alaska in august of 2015, pledging to provide $350,000 in additional osg funding to support our continued work towards tribal co-management of the resources in our region. 8. The natural resources department carried out two hazardous fuel reduction projects, clearing brush and trees around the perimeters of two village communities to prevent loss in the event of a wildfire. 9. Our realty and cultural and environmental resources departments co-hosted land jurisdictional wo