Alaska Marine Safety

Education Association

PAST MINI-GRANTS AWARDED

2010 AMSEA Mini-Grants

Howard Appel, Anvil Mountain Correctional Center – $350.00

To conduct Survival Equipment, Procedures and Onboard Drills for commercial fishermen in Nome

Anna Borland-Ivy, Homer Middle School - $1,720.00

To provide cold-water safety training for seventh graders at Homer Middle School

Becky Charlton, Sitka School District– $1,895.00

To provide an AMSEA educator workshop for schoolteachers and for outdoor safety training for 5th grade students

Liz Johnson, Northwestern Alaska Career & Technical Center – $2,825.00

To allow a NACTEC instructor to complete AMSEA's Marine Safety Instructor Training, and in turn provide a cold-water safety component in NACTEC's swimming classes

Tom Kain, Alaska State Parks – $505.0

To complete AMSEA's Marine Safety Instructor Training, and in turn provide cold-water safety training to the public

Gary Leiter, Cook Inlet Academy – $2,760.00

To conduct a 60-hour course for high school students living on the Kenai Peninsula in cold-water safety and survival as well as boat safety

Dennis Nickerson, Klawock Cooperative Association – $3,500.00

To provide a boating safety and basic survival training course for residents of Klawock

Patricia Peters, Haines Borough Pool – $1,500.00

To provide cold-water safety instruction to Haines elementary and middle school students

2009 AMSEA Mini-Grants

Tennie Bentz, Haines School District – $4,000.00

For cold-water safety and survival training for Haines school children in grades kindergarten through 8

Jason Bjornstad, Sand Point School - $2,420.00

To conduct cold-water safety training at Sand Point School using immersion suits

Gary Leiter, Cook Inlet Academy – $3,300.00

To conduct a 60-hour course for high school students living on the Kenai Peninsula in cold-water safety and survival as well as boat safety

Anna Borland-Ivy, Homer Middle School – $990.00

To provide safety training for seventh graders at Homer Middle School

Michael Baker, Aleut Enterprise – $3,875.00

To allow Adak's harbormaster to complete AMSEA's Marine Safety Instructor Training, and in turn train Aleut Enterprise employees as well as Adak residents including school students

Colin Daughtery, Alaska Chadux – $1,850.00

For expenses associated with co-instructing two classes with a trained AMSEA instructor and thereby completing AMSEA Marine Safety Instructor training requirements

Earl Jeffrey, Hydaburg City Schools – $1,685.00

To incorporate cold-water and boating safety into the 7th to 12th grade vocational SCUBA classes at Hydaburg Schools

2008 AMSEA Mini-Grants

Coastal Villages Region Fund – $4,000.00

For safety training for fishermen in the villages of Toksook Bay, Mekoryak, Tuntituliak, Chefornak, and Nepaskiak.

Rebecca Wells, Correspondence Study School, Palmer - $2,340.00

To conduct cold water safety training for home-schooled children in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.

David Wages and Angela Eastman-Aytes, Kodiak Island Burough School District, KACLAC program – $4,000.00

To incorporate boating and outdoor safety into an after-school program in the city of Kodiak.

David Wages, Kodiak Island Burough School District, Rural Schools – $4,000.00

For a water and outdoor safety education program at eight rural school sites on Kodiak Island.

Liz Mosenthin-Masi, Southeast Island School District, Thorne Bay – $3,439.00

To provide cold water safety and survival training for K - 12 students. Training will include 10-hour Onboard Emergency Drills courses for high school students and adults.

Michael Jones, Lake Otis Elementary School, Anchorage – $600.00

To conduct cold water safety training for children in grades 5 and 6.

Becky Charlton, Sitka School District– $2,000.00

For cold water and outdoor safety training for students in grades 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9.

2007 AMSEA Mini-Grants

Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation – $4,000.00

To fund one person from each village of Togiak, Twin Hills, Manokatak, Platinum and Good News Bay to attend an AMSEA Marine Safety Instructor Training course to be held in Togiak.

Karen Schramek, Stedman Elementary School, Petersburg - $3,271.15

To purchase equipment for cold water survival training for all 5th graders at Stedman Elementary School, and to fund Bridget Wittstock to attend an AMSEA Marine Safety Instructor Training course.

Jason Hymer, Norton Sound Health Corporation – $1,542.00

To allow Injury Prevention Coordinator Jason Hymer to attend AMSEA’s Marine Safety Instructor Training course in Seward, Alaska.

Jason Bjornstad, Sand Point School – $4,000.00

To provide cold water safety and survival training for K - 12 students in King Cove, Cold Bay, Nelson Lagoon and False Pass. Training will include 10-hour Onboard Emergency Drills courses for high school students.

Anna Borland-Ivy and Patricia Kane, Homer Middle School – $1,020.00

To provide cold water safety and survival training to all seventh graders at Homer Middle School.

Alex Chartier, Seldovia Village Tribe and Anna Borland-Ivy, Homer Middle School - $1,685.00

To conduct cold water safety and survival training for all K - 12 children in Seldovia during a student health fair.

2006 AMSEA Mini-Grants

Anna Borland-Ivy, Homer Middle School – $1,410.00

To provide cold water survival training to all seventh graders at Homer Middle School.

Charles Pullock, Norton Sound Health Corporation– $4,000.00

To allow Prevention Coordinator Charles Pullock to attend AMSEA’s Marine Safety Instructor Training course in Seward, Alaska. Also, to provide safety training for school-aged children in the communities of Little Diomede, Gambell, Savoonga and Unalakleet.

Aleutians East Borough – $1,893.00

To allow Sand Point Swimming Pool manager Jason Bjornstad to attend AMSEA’s Marine Safety Instructor Training course in Seward, Alaska.

Earl Jeffrey, Hydaburg City School District – $800.00

To provide a 10-hour Onboard Emergency Drills course for Hydaburg High School Students.

Jennifer Culbertson, Alaska State Parks and Valent Maxwell, Kodiak Area Native Association - $2,937.00

To conduct safety training for children at schools in six villages and at various youth camps on Kodiak Island.

2005 AMSEA Mini-Grants

Ted L. Reynolds, Maniilaq Health Education/Injury Prevention Department - $2,575.00

To help fund a train-the-trainer workshop for Injury Prevention workers and commercial fishermen, and for those newly trained to work with children and fishermen in the community.

Michelle Woods, Lower Yukon School District - $5,000.00

To pay for an educator to complete AMSEA’s Marine Safety Instructor Training. This trainer will then create a marine safety educational “tub” and train 100 school-aged Natural Helpers in boating and water safety.

Susan Round, University of Alaska Southeast – Ketchikan Campus, Maritime Department - $5,000.00

To sponsor AMSEA Marine Safety Instructor Training at UAS-K with full tuition scholarships available for 10 individuals.

Jim Ferguson, Norton Sound Health Corporation - $3,000.00

To help provide marine safety instruction to children in Gambell and Savoonga, and to set up Kids Don’t Float PFD loan programs in villages throughout Norton Sound.

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