Expected Number of Awards: 30
CFDA Number(s): 93.479 — Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country
Posted Date: Mar 08, 2019
Original Closing Date for Applications: May 15, 2019 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.
Estimated Total Program Funding: $20,000,000
Award Ceiling: $1,450,000
Award Floor: $100,000
TEC Blog
Tribal EpiCenters
03/06/2019
NWTEC Assists with Involvement of AI/AN People in Defining State Health Priorities
The Northwest Tribal Epidemiology Center (NWTEC) partnered with the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to gather input on top health issues that are most important to American Indian/Alaska Native residents of Oregon. Feedback from residents helped informed a community-based steering committee at OHA pick the top five priorities in February 2019 for Oregon’s 2020-2024 State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP).
A total of 215 survey responses were collected in a two-month period, which provided an oversampling of AI/AN residents when combined with responses to a similar survey created by OHA.
Over 95% of respondents from NWTEC’s survey indicated that they were enrolled members of a federally recognized tribe, with 60% of these respondents being enrolled members of an Oregon tribe. Respondents also represented a degree of geographic variance, as over half of Oregon’s counties were represented. Although health priorities could shift slightly when analyzing results by demographic characteristics, the top priorities remained relatively stable across the board. These top priorities selected were:
- Safe, affordable housing
- Access to mental health care
- Substance use
- Adverse childhood/life experiences (ACE/ALEs), trauma, and toxic stress
- Living wage
- Obesity
- Suicide
These priorities of AI/AN residents closely match the five priorities that were selected by OHA’s steering committee, which includes:
- Behavioral health (substance use, suicide, and access to mental health care)
- Economic drivers of health (food insecurity, housing, transportation, living wage)
- Adversity, trauma, and toxic stress (ACE/ALEs)
- Equitable access to care
- Institutional bias across private and public entities
Since AI/AN people were underrepresented in the community input that OHA used to write the current health plan (2015-2019 SHIP), targeted outreach by NWTEC and community participation helped insure that Native voices were clearly heard during the planning process.
If you have any questions or would like more information about NWTEC or Oregon’s SHIP process, please contact Taylor Ellis at tellis@npaihb.org.
Tribal EpiCenters
03/06/2019
The Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP) Conference Planning Committee invites the submission of abstracts to be presented at the 2019 AAIP Annual Meeting and Health Conference. AAIP encourages innovative educational programming that promotes clinical application of best practices to support and strengthen health outcomes for AI/AN people and communities.
August 8-10, 2019
Chicago, IL
Tribal EpiCenters
03/06/2019
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announced a future funding opportunity for the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP), part of a multi-year initiative supporting treatment for and prevention of opioid use disorder. Grantees of the RCORP-Implementation funding will receive up to $1 million for a three-year period of performance to enhance and expand service delivery in high-risk rural communities.
Tribal EpiCenters
03/06/2019
The purpose of this program is to strengthen organizational capacity to respond to the changing health care landscape and increase access to high quality HIV primary health care services for low income, uninsured, and underserved people living with HIV (PLWH).
Applications are due March 22, 2019