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Community and Culture

POC: Jerrod Moore
Email: jmoore@aaihb.org
Culture plays a vital role in prevention programs for American Indian and Alaska Native communities. This track will highlight the important role culture plays transportation and injury prevention programs and describe innovative ways that tribes and tribal organizations have incorporated these elements.

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Bike and Pedestrian Safety

POC: Jodee Dennison
Email: jdennison@aaihb.org
Motor vehicle safety involves all modes of transportation. By creating safe biking and pedestrian environments, we create safer roads for all users. This track will highlight safety measures taken by communities to improve safety, innovative and emerging strategies, evidence-based practices, community engagement and lessons learned in bike and pedestrian safety.

Child Passenger Safety (CEU)

POC: Tabatha Harris
Email: tharris@aaihb.org
Child Passenger Safety continues to be a challenge for tribal communities. This track will focus on CEU opportunities for existing Child Passenger Safety Technicians to earn CEU’s and seat sign offs toward their recertification. Presentations will focus on new technology in the field, challenges in the field, caregiver communication, and the new changes to the SafeKids technician course. We are interested in topics across the field that directly impact Indian Country.

Data Development

POC: Jodee Dennison
Email: jdennison@aaihb.org
This track will focus on demonstrating the impact of injury prevention programs in Indian Country, data collection, data storage and analysis. We are specifically interested in abstracts which describe formative and process evaluations of programs; innovative way to use, collect, and store data; and examples of how to measure program outcomes with existing data or data collected through culturally-tailored ways. Presentations informed by quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods are welcome. We are interested in presentations from across topic areas.

Program Development

POC: Jerrod Moore
Email: jmoore@aaihb.org
Presentations included as part of this track will allow attendees to learn what it takes to develop and implement transportation and injury prevention programs in American Indian/Alaska Native communities. This includes presenting and sharing stories about how programs do one or more of the following a) assess community needs and strengths; b) conduct strategic planning; c) develop partnerships and coalitions; d) tailor evidence-based strategies for local use; e) communicate with different stakeholder groups; f) advocate for policy, environmental, or systems-level change; and/or g) secure or share resources. Sessions in this track could include a variety of presentation formats to allow speakers to share what worked well or what they would do differently to develop and implement a program.

Tribal Transportation Safety Plans

POC: TBA
Email: TBA
Tribal Traffic Safety Plans initiatives for a safe community is to implement evidence-based strategies to reduce injury and death caused by motor vehicle crash in tribal communities. This track will focus on pedestrian safety, roadway safety, decrease alcohol impaired driving, data, and evaluation, increase seat belts/child safety use, public safety services, and driver distractions.

Innovative Projects

POC: TBA
Email: TBA
Tribal employees had to switch to remote working, virtual conferences, webinars sessions, and on-line learning due to the COVID pandemic, the difficulties of social distancing and following CDC recommendations. This track will focus how tribal programs were successful and proactive with innovative injury prevention projects and technology.

Rural Road Safety

POC: TBA
Email: TBA
Many tribal communities utilize tractors and ATVs for farming and ranching and it is very important to follow safety procedures and precautions to be safe. This track will focus on driving safe in rural areas and keeping alert for tractors, ATVs, other farm vehicles, safety measure, and sharing the road.

For more information
please contact:

Jerrod Moore

TIPRC Program Manager
jmoore@aaihb.org
phone: 505-321-1533

Tabatha Harris

Tribal Traffic Safety Specialist
tharris@aaihb.org
phone: 505-614-5582

Jodee Dennison

Tribal Traffic Safety Specialist
jdennison@aaihb.org
phone: 505-785-4483