Injury Prevention in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
Each tribal community in Indian country is unique with its own set of traditions, languages, practices, connections to elders, and social ties. Native communities work with the support of CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (Injury Center) to prevent injuries, the leading cause of death for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) between the ages of 1 and 54.
The Injury Center partners with and supports native communities, federally recognized tribes, Tribal Epidemiology Centers,external icon tribal organizations, and Indian Health Serviceexternal icon to improve health and wellness.
CDC is working with partners to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) by promoting safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments.
CDC provides funding to improve opioid surveillance and address the opioid crisis in tribal communities
CDC is working with tribes to reduce risk and increase protective factors to prevent suicide among American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of unintentional injury death for Proven strategies to reduce motor vehicle injuries and deaths can be successfully tailored to tribal communities or Vehicle Safety
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CDC works to understand and address Missing or Murdered Indigenous Peoplespdf icon issues by sharing data and violence prevention efforts.
- CDC and Indian Country: Working Together pdf icon
- Child Safety and Booster Seat Use in Five Tribal Communities, 2010-2014 external icon
- Illicit Drug Use, Illicit Drug Use Disorders, and Drug Overdose Deaths in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas — United States
- The Opioid Crisis: Impact on Native American Communities pdf iconexternal icon
- Overdose Deaths Involving Opioids, Cocaine, and Psychostimulants — United States, 2015–2016
- Rural and Urban Differences in Passenger-Vehicle–Occupant Deaths and Seat Belt Use Among Adults — United States, 2014
- Suicides among American Indian/Alaska Natives — National Violent Death Reporting System, 18 States, 2003–2014
- Suicide Surveillance Strategies for AI/AN Communitiespdf iconexternal icon
- Suicide Trends among and within Urbanization Levels by Sex, Race/Ethnicity, Age Group, and Mechanism of Death—United States, 2001–2015
- Tribal Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention: Best practices guide 2016
- Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
- NIHB ACEs Resource Basketexternal icon
- Office of Tribal Affairs and Strategic Alliance
- NIHB ACEs Resource Basketexternal icon
- CDC Tribal Health
- CDC’s Healthy Tribes
- National Indian Health Board ACEs: external iconexternal icon
- Office of Tribal Affairs and Strategic Alliances (OTASA)
- Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
- Epidemiological Assistance
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) is the largest, most comprehensive tribal health organization in the United States. The organization puts creativity and innovation at the forefront of its programming to serve over 160,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people across a vast geographic area.
49 Days of Ceremony
Any visitor to the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board’s (NPAIHB) websiteexternal icon is greeted with this statement: “We know that there is much work to be done to improve the health status in Indian Country, but we do not shy away from the challenge.”