Southcentral Foundation’s Nuka Learning Institute
4085 Tudor Centre Drive
Anchorage, Alaska 99508
For information about consulting and events, please contact (907) 729-NUKA (6852) or SCFNukaEvent@scf.cc
For information about student opportunities, please visit https://www.southcentralfoundation.com/careers/nuka-learning-program/ or call (907) 729-6800.
Southcentral Foundation
For information about Southcentral Foundation’s health and wellness programs and services, please visit
www.southcentralfoundation.com or call (907) 729-4955
Southcentral Foundation’s Strategic Planning Playbook
The Strategic Planning Playbook details how to build and implement a strategic planning process at an organization. It is based on SCF’s process but can be adapted to fit the unique needs of any organization.
Leadership Development and Succession Planning
Southcentral Foundation has implemented a Leadership Development and Succession Planning System. This supports SCF in growing its own leaders to ensure continuity of leadership that supports SCF’s vision and mission.
Supporting Complex Needs Through Intensive Case Management
As part of its mission of working together with the Native Community to achieve wellness through health and related services, Southcentral Foundation employs an Intensive Case Management (ICM) team, which is a community-based program offering support to customer-owners ages 18 and older who experience underlying behavioral health challenges causing difficulties in daily living.
What I Learned in Anchorage: Putting Relationship at the Centre of Care
Sarah Yardley is an Associate Professor of Palliative Medicine at University College London and a Winston Churchill Fellow. She attended SCF’s Nuka System of Care Conference in 2025 and has written the following blog based on her experience. We are honored to share her thoughts with you.
Improvement Insight: Immunization Completion
To address the decrease in childhood immunization rates, SCF’s improvement team, and medical and operational leaders convened and began reviewing data on childhood vaccinations.
History of the Nuka Conference
With the 15th anniversary of Southcentral Foundation’s Nuka System of Care Conference coming this year, we’d like to take a moment to reflect on how it all began.
Improvement Insights: Blood Pressure Control
Through a needs assessment done by Southcentral Foundation, cardiovascular disease was identified as one of the greatest health concerns of Alaska Native people. In response to not meeting the 75th percentile goal for the “Controlling High Blood Pressure” Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measure, SCF formed a workgroup to determine ways to make improvements to blood pressure control for customer-owners.
Improvement Insights: Access in Primary Care
Southcentral Foundation continually works to make care as accessible as possible for customer-owners. One of SCF’s Operational Principles is “Access is optimized and waiting times are limited,” reflecting SCF’s commitment to access to care.
Comprehensive Care for New Generations
At Southcentral Foundation, family is at the center of care and well-being. As one facet of a comprehensive approach to supporting family wellness, SCF has implemented the New Generations project, which is a targeted interdisciplinary effort to incorporate best practices of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) into services at SCF.
Book Club Notes on Dan Heath’s Reset
Author Dan Heath has recently published a book titled Reset: How to Change What’s Not Working. Southcentral Foundation follows many of the principles outlined in the book for improvement efforts.