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Alaska Natives were responsible for zero acts of serious misconduct at Clitheroe during the period covered, but a very high percentage of those banned or expelled were Alaska Native.
[Serious misconduct means bringing drugs into Clitheroe, having sex with staff, etc.]
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There were only two native males in the men's residential units (ICU / LTC units) from December 2006 to June 2007. [The Dual Diagnosis unit admits Native males at a more proportionate rate].
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Native women were admitted more easily to the women's residential unit, but Native women fare abyssmally at Salvation Army Clitheroe.
There is a clear pattern of disciplining them more harshly than others, even if it is not intentional.
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The timid young woman here, expelled for wanting to eat a candy bar she had just purchased, was Native.
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The pregnant young Native woman here was denied admittance at first, because the nurse was in a foul mood. When a complaint was made by the PNA, the "clearance form" denying her admittance was altered to make it look like she had been approved immediately.
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The young woman whose confidentiality was violated here, and who was then expelled, was part Native.
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The young lady used as a pawn by one Director on the bottom of the page here was Native.
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One of the most psychologically distressed clients at Clitheroe was a young native woman admitted to residential. She was given a bizarre public punishment that was funny to some people, but did not help her. The treatment she got would probably be considered criminal if it were investigated properly. She did not complete treatment successfully.
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There was one young native woman who called Detox asking for a bed. She was told we were full, even though we had two empty beds. [That was done a lot. Click here for the reason.]
She decided to drive to Clitheroe and park her van in front of the entrance (and wait for an "opening").
Eventually the police were called. The police asked the nurse on duty if it would be okay if the young lady came in to Detox.
The woman was admitted. The same nurse who did not want to admit that client also refused to admit the pregnant young native woman on the fafsa page.
Shortly after I first started at Clitheroe, another residential employee told me that two "large natives" were being expelled from Detox, and I might go down to help, since both Detox employees were women.
When I got to Detox, there were two small-to-medium native men outside the entrance, evidently waiting for someone to pick them up. One of the two was very intoxicated, but both were in a peaceful mood. One of them had spit on the plastic breathalizer tube as he was being breathalized, and they were both being expelled for that. It was common for intoxicated clients to be difficult when they were being admitted, but those two were the only ones who were expelled.
This occurred at the same time that a majority of Detox's young nurses were giving 'specialized extra services' to young clients they found attractive. If the two middle-aged Natives had been attractive, muscular young non-natives, not only would they not have been expelled, but they could have counted on therapeutic sex with Salvation Army Clitheroe's platoon of horny young nurses "ready to serve".
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Salvation Army Clitheroe employees do not deliberately discriminate against natives, but there is no question that most senior employees have the common attitude that natives are "soft targets" (i.e., they don't fight back), so it isn't necessary to worry about mistreating them.
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Among employees at Point Woronzof, there was only one native, a night monitor.
This page was made shortly after two Anchorage DJ's made a joke about a person only being a true Alaskan after they had peed in a native woman and made love to the Yukon river. Obviously a similar joke about black people would have been on the front page of the Anchorage Daily news without anyone pushing it there, and a similar joke about jews on a mainstream show would have been commented on in the New York Times (I'm jewish). In this case there were a few people who complained and several people made a small protest (photo in April 20, 2008 Daily News).
Salvation Army Clitheroe is taxpayer funded, and despite the protections the Salvation Army has as a "church", they are obligated to administer government funded services equitably, which they do not do.
[The author of this website is not Native.]