This Project Grant award of $688,854.00 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (CFDA 93.600 - Head Start) supports the delivery of comprehensive early childhood education services by the Mi'Kmaq Nation Administration Division, doing business as the Aroostook Band of Micmacs. The funding will be used to provide educational, health, nutritional, and social services to low-income pregnant women, infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children...
This Project Grant award of $1,250,000 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program will allow the Mi'Kmaq Nation to expand and improve its substance use counseling, mental health counseling, case management, and recovery service programs. The funding will support essential personnel, including a project director, peer recovery coach...
This $750,000 Project Grant award, funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.243), will support the Passamaquoddy Tribe's efforts to address substance use disorders and promote mental health and cultural healing in their community. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Enhancing the existing Medication-Assisted Treatment...
The Department of Health and Human Services Indian Health Service awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Demonstration Projects for Indian Health (CFDA 93.933) program to the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, Inc. (ITCMI) for the Anishnaabek Community Opioid Intervention Prevention Program (ACOIPP). The five-year project, commencing on February 1, 2025, aims to address the opioid crisis in Michigan's tribal communities by: 1) developing and expanding community education and awareness of...
This federal Project Grant award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.243) provides $341,268 to the Wabanaki Public Health & Wellness NPC to continue addressing opioid use disorder in Maine's Wabanaki tribal communities. The funding will support the Wabanaki Tribal Opioid Response Program, which includes the Wabanaki Careline crisis...
The Healthvisions Midwest Community Level Innovations for Improving Health Outcomes (CLIIHO) Project, funded through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health's Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program (CFDA 93.137), aims to address the disproportionate burden of the diabetes epidemic on African American and Hispanic populations in Allen and Lake Counties, Indiana. Over the 4-year, $533,333.34 project period from September 1, 2024 to August 31,...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Indian Health Service awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Demonstration Projects for Indian Health (CFDA 93.933) program to Native Health, a non-profit minority-owned healthcare organization in Phoenix, Arizona. The grant will support Native Health's efforts to address the opioid crisis affecting the urban American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) population in Maricopa County. The project will expand opioid-related substance abuse...
The Aroostook Micmac Council received a $389,664 block grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families under the Family Violence Prevention and Services/Domestic Violence Shelter and Supportive Services program (CFDA 93.671). The funding will support the Council's efforts from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025 to increase public awareness of and provide primary and secondary prevention services for family violence in Maine. As the...
The Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin was awarded a $997,828 Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (CFDA 93.933 - Demonstration Projects for Indian Health) to operate the Mino-Bimaadiziwin Prevention Program. The program aims to increase community awareness and education on Anishinaabe-centered prevention, treatment, and recovery practices for opioid use disorder (OUD), expand access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services...
The Division of Indian Work (DIW), a non-profit Native American-owned organization in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Congressional Directives (CFDA 93.493) federal grant program. The funding will support DIW's programs focused on preventing illegal drug use, prescription drug misuse and abuse, and alcohol misuse and abuse among urban American Indian pregnant and parenting mothers....
SDPI MICMAC HEALTH DEPARTMENT 2023 - PROJECT ABSTRACT-SDPI MICMAC HEALTH DEPARTMENT 2023 THE MI'KMAQ NATION (MN HEREIN AFTER), FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE AROOSTOOK BAND OF MICMACS IS THE MOST NORTHEASTERLY FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED INDIAN TRIBE IN THE UNITED STATED AND IS LOCATED IN THE MOST RURAL NORTHERN MAINE; AROOSTOOK COUNTY. MN RECOGNIZES THE LIMITED LOCAL AND CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE ACCESS TO MEDICATION ASSISTED TREATMENT AND EDUCATION FOR THE MICMAC COMMUNITY IN THE SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER. SINCE OUR TRIBAL COMMUNITY HAS 1,486 MEMBERS WHO LIVE IN A SERVICE AREA OF 6,672 SQUARE MILES WITHIN AROOSTOOK COUNTY, MN WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUES ITS EFFORTS TOWARDS DIABETES PREVENTION, PATIENT EDUCATION AND DISEASE MANAGEMENT. THE MICMAC HEALTH DEPARTMENT (MHD) IS A SMALL AMBULATORY CARE FACILITY, OPERATING UNDER AN INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES (IHS) 638 TITLE 1 CONTRACT. THE MHD IS LOCATED IN RURAL NORTHERN MAINE IN THE CITY OF PRESQUE ISLE. WE PROVIDE HEALTHCARE TO MEMBERS OF THE AROOSTOOK BAND OF MICMAC'S AND OTHER FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED TRIBES. MHD SERVES APPROXIMATELY 482 PEOPLE. SERVICES PROVIDED INCLUDE PRIMARY CARE, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, TELE-MEDICINE, FITNESS PROGRAM/CONSULTING, AND NUTRITION EDUCATION. CHALLENGES THE MHD FACES INCLUDE THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, STAFF RECRUITMENT/RETENTION, PATIENT/PARTICIPANT RECRUITMENT AND/OR RETENTION, TRANSPORTATION, AND LOCATION. THE MHD HAS RECENTLY HIRED A CLINICAL NURSE AND IS IN THE PROCESS OF HIRING A COMMUNITY HEALTH COORDINATOR. THE ADDITION OF THE CLINICAL NURSE WILL ALLOW THE COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAM STAFF TO BE AVAILABLE TO PERFORM HOME VISITS OR TO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION FOR DIABETIC PATIENTS. BEING LOCATED IN PRESQUE ISLE, MAINE HAD BEEN A CHALLENGE FOR OUR MANY PATIENTS THAT LIVE 30 MINUTES OR MORE AWAY. IT IS OUR BELIEF THAT HAVING THE COMMUNITY HEALTH COORDINATOR AVAILABLE TO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION WILL GREATLY IMPROVE PATIENT RETENTION AS WELL AS INCREASED PARTICIPATION WITH OTHER PROGRAMS OFFERED FOR DIABETICS. IN PREVIOUS YEARS, THE MHD HAS BEEN WORKING HARD ON DIABETIC STANDARDS OF CARE AS WELL AS DIABETES PREVENTION AND TREATMENT WITH THE HELP OF THE FITNESS SPECIALIST. SDPI'S FUNDING FOR 2023 WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE MEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TEAMS COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS FOR DIABETES PREVENTION AND TREATMENT AND WORK TOWARDS THE NEW BEST PRACTICE: GLYCEMIC CONTROL, AS MEASURED BY A1C, REDUCES THE RISK OF DIABETES COMPLICATIONS. OUR EFFORTS WILL BE TO FOCUS ON "SELF-CARE" THROUGH PROPER MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL THROUGH NUTRITION COACHING AND EDUCATION, MENTAL HEALTH, PHYSICAL WELLNESS, MEDICATION AND LIFESTYLE CHOICES, REDUCING THEIR RISK OF DIABETES RELATED COMPLICATION DURING THE COURSE OF THE SDPI 2023 YEAR AND BEYOND. WE LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING THE NEEDS OF OUR DIABETIC PATIENTS IN THE COMING YEAR.