Welcome to Injury Prevention!

The ANTHC Injury Prevention program is committed to reducing the burden of injury among Alaska Native People by working with Alaska's tribal health organizations to develop innovative and culturally appropriate injury prevention programs. Some of the services that the Injury Prevention program provides its customers include:

• Technical support
• Injury prevention training
• Assistance in identifying resources
• Data collection, analysis, and interpretation
  
• Injury prevention advocacy
• Development of community coalitions
  

You can get more information about the services available from the ANTHC Injury Prevention program from our program Flyer or Brochure.

Each year regional Tribal Injury Prevention directors meet at ANTHC for a planning meeting to provide regional updates and determine the current priorities for prevention. The current injury prevention priorities, based on state-wide data, are:

Suicide and suicide attempts
Elder falls
Drowning deaths

Alaska Tribal Injury Prevention Core Values:

• Evidenced-based
• Collaboration
• Community-focused
  

Training to encourage children to FOCUS on Safety
The Alaska FOCUS on Safety Curriculum is an education standards-based injury prevention curriculum appropriate for all school-age children (primary focus grades K-8) in rural Alaska. It covers topics such as fire safety, hypothermia prevention, ATV/snowmachine safety, fall prevention, hunting safety, poison prevention, and pedestrian safety. You can get more information,order a curriculum, or register for the one credit-hour graduate level off-campus course for teachers by visiting our FOCUS on Safety webpage.