AABA

Alaska Attachment & Bonding Associates

 

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Directors

  • CEO/President - Eleanor F. Oakley

Eleanor F. OakleyBorn in a small fishing village in Kanakanak, Alaska, Eleanor attended the one room school there, being the 10th student for the eight grades. Her family soon moved to Anchorage where she attended elementary school. Her father retired from the military, and the family moved “outside”. They moved first to the Seattle area and then Salinas, California, where Eleanor graduated from high school and attended one year at Hartnell Junior College. Eleanor left the area not long after and traveled and worked in different areas of the United States until she returned to Salinas. There she married a fellow Salinas High School graduate. They both attended Fresno State College where she graduated six months before the birth of her son, Sean. Her husband, Jim Hitchcock, continued in graduate school and he completed his doctorate at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. There their daughter, Traighli, was born.

Eleanor, and her husband and Sean and Traighli lived for years in Fiji and the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific until she and the kids returned to Alaska in 1974. Eleanor's professional life wook many turns until she settled on real estate until her retirement from that profession in 1999. During her real estate career, she served on the Mat-Su Borough Assembly, served as a Real Estate Commissioner, and became a foster parent. Eleanor moved to Wasilla in 1980.

Eleanor’s passion for working with children, and her knowledge of challenges when caring for foster children led her to form (along with two other parents) a non-profit organization, Alaska Attachment & Bonding Associates (AABA) where she now volunteers her time as the CEO and President. AABA is an advocacy organization where Eleanor works to assist parents and children through advocacy work and workshops on attachment disorders. After retirement from real estate, Eleanor attended Graduate School and earned a Master of Science degree from Southern New Hampshire University in Community Mental Health. Eleanor's interests in Children's Mental Health led her to establish a Therapeutic Foster home.

Contact information:

 

Phone: (907) 376-0366

Fax: (907) 376-00966

Email: eleanor@akattachment.org

 

Officers, Directors, Trustees and Key employees

Name & address Title

Eleanor F. Oakley

P.O. Box 872188

Wasilla, AK 99687

 President

Eleanor F. Oakley

P.O. Box 872188

Wasilla, AK 99687

 CEO
Jim Wardman

P.O. Box 872188

Wasilla, AK 99687

 Vice President
Kaye Zwiacher

P.O. Box 876641

Wasilla, AK 99687

 Director
Naomi Tigner

209 Forty Mile Ave.

Fairbanks, AK 99701

 Director

Karen Howes
575 Silver Fox Ln
Wasilla , AK 99654

Secretary/Treasurer
Berdadine Janzen

P.O. Box 872188

Wasilla, AK 99687

 Advisory

Laura Wagner

P.O. Box 872188

Wasilla, AK 99687

 Administrative Assistant

 Affiliations

  • The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)

  • Mat-Su Agency Partnership (MAP)

  • Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health

  • Association for Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children (ATTACh)

  • North American Council for Adoptable Children P.A.R.E.N.T.S, Inc.

  • Alaska Children's Trust

  • Mat-Su Health Foundation