National Indian Health Outreach and Education

 

The purpose of this IHS cooperative agreement is to further IHSÂ’s mission and goals related to providing quality health care to the AI/AN community through outreach and education efforts with the sole outcome of improving Indian health care. This award includes the following four health services components: Retained Tribal Shares for outreach and health education for Tribes, Health Care Policy Analysis and Review, Budget Formulation and Tribal Leaders Diabetes Committee (TLDC).

Deleted 10/10/2012 (Archived.) HHS-2012-IHS-NIHOE-0001 Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Office: Indian Health Service Cooperative Agreement 1 Eligible applicants are 501(c)(3) national Indian organizations that meet the following criteria: Eligible entities must have demonstrated expertise in: - Representing all Tribal governments and providing a variety of services to Tribes, Area Health Boards, Tribal organizations, and Federal agencies, and playing a major role in focusing attention on Indian health care needs, resulting in improved health outcomes for Tribes. - Promoting and supporting Indian education, and coordinating efforts to inform AI/AN of Federal decisions that affect Tribal government interests including the improvement of Indian health care. - Administering national health policy and health programs. - Maintaining a national AI/AN constituency and clearly supporting critical services and activities within the IHS mission of improving the quality of health care for AI/AN people. - Supporting improved healthcare in Indian Country. The national Indian organization must have the infrastructure in place to accomplish the work under the proposed program. 09/10/2012 This program does not have cost sharing or matching requirements. Paul Gettys
Grant Systems Coordinator
Phone 301-443-2114 http://www.ihs.gov/NonMedicalPrograms/gogp/documents/HHS-2012-IHS-NIHOE-0001.pdf paul.gettys@ihs.gov $966,000.00 Awards range from $966,000.00 to $966,000.00