This Guide was developed to share lessons learned from several American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Tribes/Tribal Organizations that have tailored and carried out evidence-based strategies to reduce injury and death caused by motor vehicle crashes in AI/AN communities. Lessons learned and examples in this document include Tribes funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Indian Health Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

This Guide focuses on three evidence-based strategies to reduce motor vehicle injury and death:

1. Increase Child Safety Seat Use,

2. Increase Seat Belt Use, and

3. Decrease Alcohol-Impaired Driving.

The main target audience for this Guide is motor vehicle injury prevention (MVIP) practitioners at Tribes/Tribal Organizations. Other key audiences include:

• Tribal leadership (for example, executive and legislative members).

• Tribal public health and traffic safety professionals (for example, health directors, law enforcement, court staff, injury prevention practitioners, community health workers, emergency medical service staff).

• Non-Tribal public health and traffic safety professionals working with Tribes/Tribal Organizations (for example, state

Developed for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health.

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