The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, which controls hundreds of millions of dollars, has decided to spend public resources to help boost nonprofits groups that push transgender ideology on some of Alaska’s most vulnerable youth.
On March 19, the Trust announced that it has awarded $1.84 million to various nonprofits that offer services for those experiencing mental illness or disease, developmental disorders, substance abuse or traumatic brain injuries.
Two of the award recipients – Choosing Our Roots and Covenant House Alaska – actively promote the notion that vulnerable youth can change their sexual identity to identify as members of the opposite sex.
Choosing Our Roots is an Alaska non-profit that targets LGBTQ homeless youth. Launched in 2019, it focuses on providing shelter for queer and transgender identifying teens and young adults. The group places youth – ages 13 to 24 – in what it calls volunteer “host home families,” which must affirm teens and young adults in their various chosen gender identities and expressions.
In addition to creating new queer-affirming family structures, the organization also puts young people in contact with local LGBTQ services and other social support agencies. In 2022, the organization helped to facilitate an irreversible double mastectomy on a gender confused young woman.
Likewise, Covenant House Alaska, which began as a Catholic outreach for Anchorage’s homeless and run-away youth – ages 13 to 24 – has rejected core moral tenets of its faith-based roots in favor of facilitating abortions, imposing strict LGBTQ mandates on staff and young clients and supporting sexual “transitions” for gender-confused youth.
Choosing Our Roots received $125,000 from the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority grant, while Covenant House took in $310,000.
The Trust’s grant program is a core component of its mission, which is supposed to help care for Alaskans experiencing mental illness, substance misuse, intellectual and developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, and Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
In announcing the grant winners, Trust CEO Mary Wilson lauded their work.
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“By investing in critical infrastructure, direct services, and more, we are helping our community partners build stronger, more inclusive environments where all Trust beneficiaries have the opportunity to thrive,” she said.
The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority is a state corporation that administers the Mental Health Trust, a perpetual trust created by the Alaska Legislature in 1994 to ensure that Alaska has a comprehensive mental health program to serve those in need. The Trust operates much like a private foundation, using its vast resources to award grants to various organizations across the state.
As a component unit of the State of Alaska, it consists of a seven-member board of trustees that is appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Alaska Legislature. It operates as a political subdivision of the state, which grants it tax-exempt status under state and federal law.
The Trust Land Office resides within the Department of Natural Resources and is contracted exclusively by the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority to manage its approximately one million acres of land and other non-cash assets to generate revenue.
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