The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority is looking for qualified applicants to join its board of trustees.

The Trust provides leadership in the advocacy, planning, implementing and catalytic funding of services to improve Alaska’s mental health system, and seeks to improve the lives of its beneficiaries. Beneficiaries include Alaskans who experience mental illness, intellectual/developmental disabilities, substance use disorders, Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia, or traumatic brain injury.  

Trustees oversee approximately $700 million of financial and real estate assets, including one million acres of land. In the last 26 years, trustees have approved more than $355 million in grants to find more than 3,200 beneficiary-serving projects and more than 8,600 mini grants to beneficiaries across Alaska.

Membership on this dynamic board is based on ability in financial management and investment, in land management, or in services for the beneficiaries of the trust. Additionally, applicants cannot have worked for an organization or served on a board of an organization that received a grant or contract from the Trust within the last two years.

For more information about applying, visit: boards.alaska.gov/apply

Applications are due Monday, June 7, 2021