• Injuries account for more than half of deaths among school age children.
• About 18 Alaskan children (ages 5 to 15 years) die each year due to an unintentional injury, such as a motor-vehicle crash, drowning, or ATV crash.
• Alaskan children are TWICE as likely as all US children to die of an unintentional injury as all US children.
• Alaska Native children are FIVE times as likely to die of an unintentional injury as all US children.
• Almost all unintentional injury deaths are preventable. 

The Alaska FOCUS on Safety Curriculum is an education standards-based injury prevention curriculum. It was developed for Alaskans in rural and remote villages of Alaska. The curriculum covers topics such as fire safety, coldwater/ice/hypothermia prevention, ATV/snowmachine safety, falls prevention, firearms/hunter safety, poison prevention, and pedestrian safety.  It has specific lessons for grades kindergarten through eight, and can and has been adapted for high school students.

The research for this curriculum was based on statistics from Alaska State Trauma Registry data. Alaska artist, Diane Barske, designed the posters, which show rural Alaska Native people taking suitable safety steps. Alaska Native Helen Stafford, wrote the safety stories that bring adventure to life as they introduce each section of the safety units.

The full curriculum kit includes:

• Curriculum Teachers Manual
  
• Safety Story Booklet and audio CD with story narration
  
• Safety Posters
  
• Safety Card Satchel
  
• CDs with FOCUS manual (including student tests); forms and handouts; safety card satchel; safety stories and coloring pages; and a narrated presentation to guide instructors through the use of the curriculum.

Lists of additional resources for instructors teaching Focus on Safety are included below:

- On-line Resources 

- Agency Contacts

- Book Resources by Grade Level

- Document and Article Resources