Tribal injury and injury prevention practitioners, researchers, and partners are invited to submit abstracts for
the Tribal Motor Vehicle Safety Summit taking place October 19-21, 2021 in Albuquerque, NM.
Abstracts may focus on transportation
injury and prevention programs or research. We will accept abstracts through July 23rd, 2021.
Several types of workshops will be considered, including presentations, poster presentations, panel presentations, and interactive workshops.
The Tribal Motor Vehicle Safety Summit is a two and a half-day conference, taking place October 19-21, 2021 in Albuquerque, NM
Agenda is under development - please stay tuned
Presenters can submit abstracts for the following tracks (Scroll down for more details:
1. Community and Culture - Approaches for Tribal Traffic and Transportation Safety
2. Bike and Pedestrian Safety
3. Child Passenger Safety (CEU)
4. Tribal Motor Vehicle Safety Data
5. Tribal Safety Programs Development (Traffic and Injury Prevention)
6. Tribal Transportation Safety Plans – Including approaches for Tribal Traffic Safety and Injury Prevention
7. Innovative Projects - Adapting and exploring technology use during the COVID Pandemic.
8. Rural Road Safety – Sharing the roadway with tractors and ATV
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.