Native Public Health Resilience Planning

For programmatic or technical questions:
Lisa Neel
301.443.4305
lisa.neel@ihs.gov

For grants management or budget questions:
DGM@ihs.gov

This program provides funding to carry out planning activities to help tribes and tribal organizations determine if developing a public health program for their community is practicable. Funds will be used to assist with establishing goals and performance measures and assessing current management capacity to support a public health program that will implement essential public health services for American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

Required activities include:

• Assess community-specific public health needs
• Conduct an assessment to identify current essential public health services activities and/or priorities
• Identify gaps in essential public health services functions currently available within supported communities
• Quantify costs for establishing priority essential public health services functions
• Assess feasibility of establishing priority essential public health services functions

Federally recognized tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations are eligible to apply.

Award ceiling: $200,000
Award floor: $100,000
Project period: 3 years
Estimated number of awards: 24
Estimated total program funding: $3,600,000

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.