Maleah Nore

Biography

Maleah Nore, Tlingit, MPH, is a tribal public health contractor with a background in family violence prevention, suicide prevention, and strengthening tribal family systems. Maleah’s work is rooted in her experiences as a survivor of child abuse, domestic violence, suicide, and the Office of Children’s Services system in rural Alaska. She has been involved in grassroots and non-profit violence prevention efforts since she was 15 years old. She is the co-founder of BRAVE Wrangell, a grassroots domestic violence prevention and survivors’ advocacy organization serving the community of Wrangell, Alaska, for over 9 years. She has worked in child abuse prevention at the village, tribal, state, regional, and national levels. Maleah also has a passion for suicide prevention. She is a trainer in the nationally recognized suicide intervention skills trainings, QPR and ASIST. She has provided a broad range of technical assistance around suicide prevention to tribal communities across the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, and she collaborates closely with the NPAIHB’s THRIVE suicide prevention program. Maleah brings a lens of hope, connectedness, and ancestral power to everything she does.

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