This is a great opportunity!

 

Train on the Kenai Peninsula with SOLO, the oldest continuously operating wilderness medical school worldwide! The Challenger Learning Center is hosting SOLO’s Wilderness First Responder course for those who work as backcountry trip leaders, camp counselors, mountain guides, river guides, and ski patrollers. This is an intensive 72-80 hour certification course nationally certified through SOLO which focuses on evaluation, treatment, and rescue for backcountry medical situations. This is a 3-year certification from SOLO Schools.

 

If you are working in a position of leadership in an outdoor setting or an individual who wants a high level of wilderness medical training for extended personal backcountry trips, join this class which will be held May 2 - 10.

When an employee must take a drug or alcohol test in Alaska, that is usually done with a urine sample. Giving employees the option to spit into a cup or swab the inside of their mouth makes the process more convenient and ensures the sample is secure without invading the employee’s privacy. The Senate Labor and Commerce Committee, which I chair, introduced SB 196 to allow for this option in state law. 

Alaska’s outmigration of workers and the resulting shortage are the state’s latest episode in a long history of population swings. What can we learn from previous rises and falls in population Alaska and other states? Learn more in this month’s Trends magazine from Alaska’s Department of Labor. 

I will be holding town hall meetings in Sterling, Funny River, and Kenai on Saturday March 23. More details to come on the times and locations. In the meantime, feel free to contact my office with your ideas at 907-283-7996 or sen.jesse.bjorkman@akleg.gov

Senator Jesse Bjorkman | State Capitol Room 3, Juneau, AK 99801-1182