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, falls prevention, hunting safety, poison prevention, and pedestrian safety.  You can get more  information,order a curriculum, or to register for the one-credit hour graduate level off-campus course for teachers by visiting our FOCUS on Safety webpage.

Above: Two young fisherman wear their personal flotation devices (PFDs) at the Bethel dock while waiting to start the day's fishing. Correct PFD use is essential to prevent injuries in Alaska, where vast roadless expanses require frequent travel by water. Alaska has more than 50% of the entire coastline of the United States and thousands of miles of rivers.

For more information or to contact us at the Injury Prevention Program:

Mailing Address:                                             Physical Address:

Injury Prevention Program                                 Injury Prevention Program

Wellness and Prevention Department             Wellness and Prevention Department 4000 Ambassador Drive, D-CHS                   4141 Ambassador Drive, Rm. 117

Anchorage, AK 99508                                      Anchorage, AK 99508

Phone: 907-729-3799 or -3513 

Map to ANTHC facility