Oglala Lakota Division Of Behavioral Health

Oglala Lakota Division Of Behavioral Health, a tribally governed behavioral health agency of the Oglala Sioux Tribe based in Gordon, Nebraska, operates as a federal grant recipient (25% of recent awards) and sub-recipient (75%) delivering opioid and psychostimulant abuse reduction, substance use disorder treatment, and juvenile justice diversion services on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The organization is a federally recognized Indian tribe and tribal government entity, not a for-profit contractor; it does not hold federal contract vehicles and competes in the federal grant landscape rather than the procurement environment.

The organization's recent federal footprint is concentrated in two agencies across four awards totaling $3.3 million obligated dollars. The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) accounts for two sub-awards under South Dakota Department of Corrections as the prime grantee, covering full-time juvenile probation and diversion officer employment and coordination with treatment providers, schools, and mental health programs. The Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) anchors the single prime grant award: a $1.7 million recipient grant under the SAMHSA Tribal Opioid Response (TOR) mechanism running from September 2024 through September 2029 (CFDA 93.788). The TOR award includes five interventions: medications for addiction treatment integration into routine practice, recovery support and client navigator services, case management and skills training for transitional clients, an inter-agency public health training and technical assistance center, and a substance abuse prevention campaign.

Recent activity shows one sub-award under a second SAMHSA initiative (PC-WISH pilot) dated April 2026, establishing an interagency behavioral health research consortium with aims to reconvene a tribal data committee, develop a behavioral health data dashboard, and create a youth-focused research protocol on opioid and methamphetamine risk perception by July 2026.