Round Valley Indian Health Center, Inc.

Round Valley Indian Health Center, Inc., a tribally owned, non-profit healthcare organization established in 1968, serves approximately 3,000 community members in the remote Round Valley Indian Reservation area of Covelo, California. Located 25 miles east of Highway 101 and 15 miles from the nearest hospital, the health center provides comprehensive primary health, dental, and behavioral health care to a medically underserved frontier region in northern Mendocino County. As the only medical and dental service provider within a one-hour radius of the reservation and town of Covelo, Round Valley Indian Health Center plays a critical role in addressing healthcare disparities and has secured federal contract and grant awards to expand its clinical capabilities and address significant public health challenges facing the tribal community, including high rates of substance use disorders, suicide, and preventable chronic diseases.

Round Valley Indian Health Center, Inc. has limited federal contract activity, with one prime contract award on record. In November 2025, the organization received a firm fixed-price purchase order contract valued at $11,166.00 from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Region 5 - Pacific Southwest Region to provide required occupational health physicals and fitness testing for Westside firefighting personnel through June 30, 2026. This contract represents a practical application of the health center's existing clinical capabilities to support critical public safety personnel in the underserved region it serves. The award was made without set-aside designation, leveraging the organization's established infrastructure and medical expertise to deliver these occupational health services locally.

Round Valley Indian Health Center, Inc. demonstrates substantial grant activity across multiple federal programs addressing critical community health needs. The organization holds four active or recently completed prime federal grant awards: the "Lighting the Way" project grant from the SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services (awarded September 2024, extending through September 2029), which focuses on suicide prevention and mental health promotion among American Indian youth through a collaborative, tiered public health model; a Special Diabetes Program for Indians cooperative agreement from the Office of the Director (awarded January 2023 through December 2027) emphasizing nutrition education and diabetes risk reduction; a "TOR Weaving Connections" project grant from the SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (awarded September 2022, completed September 2025) addressing the opioid and stimulant misuse crisis through medication-assisted treatment and recovery support services; and a COVID-19 Suicide Prevention Program grant from SAMHSA (awarded August 2021, completed December 2023) providing suicide prevention and domestic violence community services. Additionally, Round Valley Indian Health Center, Inc. has participated in federal grant sub-awards as a collaborating partner, including a COVID-19 vaccination outreach initiative under the California Department of Public Health (December 2022) that mobilized community health workers to increase vaccination rates among tribal communities, and the "Healthy Kids Telehealth" project under the University of California Office of the President (August 2022), a community-based participatory research effort that adapted nutrition education curriculum for delivery via telehealth to rural and tribal families with young children. These grant awards collectively demonstrate the organization's commitment to addressing trauma, substance use disorders, mental health, chronic disease prevention, and infectious disease response through culturally appropriate, evidence-based interventions.