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Using Evidence-Based Interventions to Increase Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening in Urban AI/AN Communities Nationwide

Grant Opportunities

Screen Our Circle (SOC) is a National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It aims to increase cancer screenings and early detection rates in urban AI/AN clinics across the nation, ultimately reducing the impacts of breast and cervical cancer in Indian Country. SOC provides support to urban AI/AN clinics and assists in removing screening barriers by raising awareness of cancer burdens and solutions, promoting health system changes, and performing community education and outreach activities.

Applications Due: Dec. 31, 2019

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GATHER Food Sovereignty Grant

Grant Opportunities

With the generous support of the Indigenous Peoples Fund at Tides Foundation, First Nations will establish a Gather Food Sovereignty Grant that will support work contributing to building a national movement that will fulfill a vision of Native communities and food systems that are self-directed, well-resourced and supported by community policies and systems. This opportunity is targeting emerging projects that focus on developing Tribal Food Sovereignty. Through the first round of the Gather Food Sovereignty Grant, First Nations expects to award up to 8 grant awards of approximately $32,000 to support Native American-led food sovereignty work.

Applications Due: Feb. 27, 2020 (no later than 5 p.m. Mountain Time)

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The Substance Abuse and HIV Prevention Navigator Program for Racial/Ethnic Minorities

Grant Opportunities

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2020 for the Substance Abuse and HIV Prevention Navigator Program for Racial/Ethnic Minorities (Short Title: Prevention Navigator). The purpose of this program is to provide services to those at highest risk for HIV and substance use disorders. The program proposes to use a navigation approach (Community Health Workers, Neighborhood Navigators, and Peer Support Specialists) to expedite services for these populations. The program will provide training and education around the risks of substance misuse, provide education on HIV/AIDS, and provide needed linkages to service provision for individuals with HIV.

Applications Due: Dec. 27, 2019

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Recovery Community Services Program

Grant Opportunities

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2020 Recovery Community Services Program (Short Title: RCSP). The purpose of this program is to provide peer recovery support services via recovery community organizations to individuals with substance use disorders or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders or those in recovery from these disorders. The program’s foundation is the value of lived experience of peers to assist others in achieving and maintaining recovery. These services, in conjunction with clinical treatment services, are an integral component of the recovery process.

Applications Due: Dec. 23, 2019

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Natural Experiments of the Impact of Population-targeted Policies to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetes Complications

Grant Opportunities

This NOFO has two components, A and B.

Component A (Natural Experiment Research Centers): To support a 5-year multi-center network of independent research centers to evaluate innovative, health system and non-health system-based natural experimental approaches to alter the diabetogenic characteristics of US communities.

Applicants will select one of the following two tracks:
Track 1 Evaluation of population-level programs or policies that affect population-level risk factors for type 2 diabetes (such as diet or physical activity, as well as other health behaviors; glucose; prediabetes), or
Track 2 Evaluation of programs or policies aimed at improving care and management of diabetes, and the risk for diabetes complications.

Component B (Coordinating Center): To fund a Coordinating Center (CC) to provide organizational, logistic and communication support to enhance the efficiency, productivity, and public health impact of the Natural Experiments research centers that are funded as part of Component A.

Applications Due: Feb. 04, 2020
Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.

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