Welcome to Injury Prevention!

 

New Town in Old Harbor AK

 

 
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:

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:

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.

 

Kids Picture

 

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                    7033 East Tudor Road

Anchorage, AK 99508                                      Anchorage, AK 99507

 

 

Phone: 907-729-3799 or -3513 

 

Map to ANTHC Facility