The Alaska FOCUS on Safety program is a rural, school-based injury prevention program, designed by Alaskans for Alaskans. The FOCUS team designed an injury prevention curriculum using Alaska State Trauma Registry data and incorporating successful Alaskan injury prevention programs. A local artist (Diane Barske) was commissioned to create posters depicting rural Alaska Native people exhibiting appropriate safety practices. Each section is introduced by audio tapes of Alaska Native story tellers, who bring to life the adventures from the safety stories. Injuries are the number one killer of young Alaskans and we need to prepare them with lifetime safety skills.
Contact Sue Lyons, Niki Pereira, or Ron Perkins at 929-3939
You can also learn more by going to Alaska FOCUS on Safety Curriculum (http://www.alaska-ipc.org/FOCUS%20on%20Safety.htm) or going to a brief explanation of the curriculum on the Denali Safety Council website at http://www.denalisafetycouncil.org/outreach.html
Many thanks to the Alaska Injury Prevention Center and Alaska FOCUS on Safety for permission to use material in this web course.
