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Child-advocacy center tells borough commission its referrals for strangulation and trafficking are rising

Health and Social Services Commission · March 14, 2026
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Lee Bolen of the Resource Center for Parents and Children told commissioners Stevie's Place is seeing more physical-abuse, strangulation and trafficking referrals, cited a state-law change and new MOAs with military and federal partners, and described a nursing contract with Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.

Lee Bolen, executive director of the Resource Center for Parents and Children, told the Health and Social Services Commission March 14 that Stevie's Place is the child advocacy center serving Interior Alaska, the North Slope and the Fairbanks North Star Borough and that the center has seen recent increases in physical abuse, strangulation and trafficking referrals.

Bolen said the center's grant funding pays a nursing contract with Fairbanks Memorial Hospital for forensic medical services, and that…

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