Keetoowah Economic Development Authority

Keetoowah Economic Development Authority, a tribally owned firm and federally recognized Indian tribe operating from Tahlequah, Oklahoma, serves as the prime recipient of federal grants focused on behavioral health infrastructure, youth suicide prevention, and substance-use disorder treatment and prevention for the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians and rural American Indians across northeastern Oklahoma. The organization operates entirely as a grant recipient with no federal contract prime awards or subcontract activity; all eleven recent awards are project grants from the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Keetoowah's recent grant portfolio spans behavioral health system development, suicide prevention, and opioid response across three named SAMHSA programs. The most recent award, issued September 30, 2026, is a $1.05 million grant under the Center for Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.532) for the Keetoowah Healing Circle Children's System of Care Initiative, a three-year planning and infrastructure project running through September 29, 2029, to establish governance, partnership, data, outreach, screening, and referral infrastructure connecting tribal child-serving programs, schools, child welfare, childcare and early-learning providers, and behavioral health services across a five-county service area in Cherokee, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, and Sequoyah counties. A second CFDA 93.532 grant, also awarded September 30, 2026 and valued at $733,896, supports a five-year Echota Tribal Suicide Prevention Project cooperative agreement through September 29, 2031, targeting youth ages 12-24 with universal screening, risk response systems, and evidence-based suicide prevention training across schools and tribal services in the 14-county Cherokee Nation reservation footprint. Earlier awards include a Resiliency Pathways opioid and stimulant prevention and harm-reduction initiative (awarded September 30, 2024, running through September 29, 2029) under SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, a Tribal Opioid Response grant for opioid and methamphetamine treatment and recovery support (September 30, 2022, completed September 29, 2024), and a Medication Assisted Treatment grant for OUD treatment expansion (September 30, 2022, running through September 29, 2027). The organization operates two tribally owned subsidiaries: Echota Support Services, LLC and Echota Billing Services, LLC, both certified as Indian Economic Enterprises and Self-Certified Small Disadvantaged Businesses.

Keetoowah's customer base is entirely SAMHSA across the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration division of HHS, with all eleven awards concentrated within this single federal agency partner. Two awards face completion within the next twenty-four months, creating limited near-term recompete exposure. The organization's footprint is exclusively grant-based, rural behavioral health focused, and tribally serving, with no exposure to federal contracts, vehicles, or full-and-open competitive federal procurement.