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Go Purple to Raise Awareness for Alzheimer’s
Purple is the official color of the Alzheimer’s movement.
Worldwide, more than 55 million people are living with Alzheimer's or another dementia. Join the Alzheimer's Association in going purple and raising awareness this June. The more that people know about Alzheimer's, the more action that is inspired.
For more information on Alzheimer's & Brain Awareness Month and to see stories of others supporting this health awareness month, click here.
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A new quarter honors Native American leader and activist Wilma Mankiller
By Tekella Foster
Some coin enthusiasts will be able to add a quarter dedicated to the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation to their collections on Monday.
Mankiller led the Cherokee Nation from 1985 to 1995 and is credited with boosting tribal enrollment and employment and reforming the tribe's programs for health, children and housing.
On one side of the quarter there's a portrait of President George Washington. The other side you'll find the late chief in a traditional shawl. On her left is the seven-pointed star of the Cherokee Nation.
The Cherokee National History Museum in Tahlequah, Okla., will host a launch event and livestream Monday morning, where some of the coins will be made available to the public.
To watch the ceremony honoring Mankiller, her family and tribe, visit this link.
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When she retired from politics, Mankiller returned to her activist role as an advocate working to improve the image of Native Americans and combat the misappropriation of native heritage, by authoring books including a bestselling autobiography, Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, and giving numerous lectures on health care, tribal sovereignty, women's rights, and cancer awareness. Throughout her life, she had serious health problems including polycystic kidney disease, myasthenia gravis, lymphoma, breast cancer, and needed two kidney transplants. She died in 2010 from pancreatic cancer, and was honored with many local, state and national awards, including the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. sessions
Attend on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 11:00 am Pacific/12:00 pm Mountain/1:00 pm Central/2:00 pm Eastern for a session below. Each session will be one hour in length that will provide an opportunity for participants to:
- Increase understanding of Native youth expressions of innate brilliance,
- Learn ways to identify, acknowledge, and nurture Native youth brilliance,
- Broaden understanding of Native youth perspective from Native youth voices,
- Learn three ways to recognize and support Native youth brilliance.
Register in advance for each session! You MUST register for each individual session to get the unique link for each session - see the session list from now through November 2022 below!
- June 28 - Assessment and diagnosis through Indigenous lens
- July 26 - Substance use and hungry ghosts
- August 23 - Role of Indigenous healing practices in Native life re-balance
- September 27 - Inspiring Native life transformation plans
- October 25 - Reframing Native mental health
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November 22 - (final session in 2022 series) Open discussion forum: Reclaiming Native Psychological Brilliance
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New OMH Funding Opportunity Announcement: Promoting Equitable Access to Language Services in Health and Human Services
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), and the HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) announce the availability of funds for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 under the authority of 42 U.S.C. § 300u-6 (Section 1707 of the Public Health Service Act). This notice solicits applications from public and non-profit private entities to be demonstration sites that identify and implement innovative strategies to enhance language access services through: (1) policy development and implementation; (2) technology utilization; (3) education for individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP); and (4) education for providers, including medical support staff.
OMH is dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities. Through its demonstration projects, OMH supports the identification of effective approaches for improving health outcomes with the ultimate goal of promoting dissemination and sustainability of these approaches.
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FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Releases Tribal Playbook
On May 31, the White House released a Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Tribal Playbook to help Tribal governments unlock the benefits from the historic investments in our nation’s infrastructure, including the more than $13 billion set aside in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for Indian Country.
The Tribal Playbook, found at build.gov, builds on the release of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Guidebook and provides Tribal communities with information on the more specific Tribal funding available under the law, in addition to the hundreds of billions available to Tribes on a competitive basis.
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Hurricane preparedness resources
The Atlantic hurricane season officially begins on June 1 and runs through November 30. As noted in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) press release, in 2021 for the seventh year in a row, a named storm occurred before June 1, and for the first time on record, two hurricane seasons in a row required more than the 21 storm names designated for each season.
NOAA also reports that their Climate Prediction Center projected a busier than average 2021 hurricane season, which helped communities across the nation prepare to increase safety for individuals, families, and property. Preparedness may well have saved lives and increased well-being.
Fine more resources here.
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Improving Health and Well-Being in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities through Compliance
OIG offers the online training series Improving Health and Well-Being in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities Through Compliance. This series includes web-based trainings, job aids, and videos for grantees and health care providers who serve AI/AN communities to learn more about compliance; fraud, waste, and abuse; and health care quality.
These trainings are free and provide information and tools that you, at the option of your organization and based on its needs, can apply to help ensure your organization provides quality services to your community and complies with applicable statutes, regulations, and program requirements. Users will be able to download a certification of completion for each training completed.
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USDA and EDA Launch Resource Guide to Boost Economic Development in Rural Communities
The U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development just released a joint resource guide to help community organizations access USDA and EDA resources to build strategies to boost economic development in rural America.
This joint planning resource guide for rural America will better equip our communities with an easy to access and easy to use tools to maximize the work of providing greater and inclusive economic prosperity across our country.
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Planning a Reentry Program: A Toolkit for Tribal Communities
This toolkit for reentry programs for American Indian and Alaska Natives reentering their tribal communities after release from jail or prison addresses the rationale for reentry programs and how to plan and implement tribal reentry programs that incorporate a tribe’s history, values, and strengths.
This toolkit views reentry as a process that begins with confinement, which should provide an assessment of risk and need that becomes the basis for rehabilitative programming and interactions that facilitate a law-abiding life upon reentering the community after release. Tribal reentry programs are designed to assist people in living a crime-free life in their tribal communities after release from jail or prison. They face challenges that may include where to live; getting a job; developing and maintaining a crime-free family and social life; and accessing mental health and rehabilitative services needed to prevent reoffending.
Reentry programs offer the structure, services, and supervision needed to address these issues. After explaining the features of and need for reentry programs, this toolkit explains the distinctive features of reentry programs in a tribal context. This is followed by instructions for planning a reentry strategy. The major components of this instruction are 1) the development and functions of the planning team, 2) identifying and collaborating with partners, 3) engaging clients in the reentry program, and 4) measuring program impact. 13 references
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IHB Suicide Prevention Project partners with IHS
The Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board’s suicide prevention project, THRIVE (see: npaihb.org/thrive), has partnered with the Indian Health Services, tribes, and tribal organizations across Indian Country to write up a description of what the 988 direct 3-digit mental health emergency resource is and how it can affect Tribal Nations and Communities. This resource will be updated and re-circulated as the 988 line and partners answering the calls evolve. You can also access the document here:
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Return of 28,000 acres to Minnesota tribe is likely largest land-back deal ever
The Bois Forte Band of Chippewa has restored more than 28,000 acres of northern Minnesota land to tribal ownership.
The land is within reservation boundaries, but the tribe lost title to it more than a century ago after the federal government split it into parcels and sold it off under the 1887 General Allotment Act.
In 2020, the nonprofit Conservation Fund bought the land as part of a larger purchase from the Potlatch Deltic lumber company with the intent of returning it to the 3,600 member Ojibwe band.
“It's going to be used for hunting, fishing, gathering and when I say gathering, you know, the berries and our traditional medicines. These lands were hunted on by non-Indians, not natives. And so they'll be our lands to do what we've always done,” Tribal Chair Cathy Chavers said.
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Interior Department won’t disclose location of Native American burial sites
The locations of unmarked graveyards at Native American boarding schools will remain unknown to the general public, despite the Department of the Interior’s work to uncover them.
The federal agency and experts in Native American affairs said disclosing details of the sites could expose those burial grounds to looters and continues to be a delicate issue that requires tribal consultation and approval.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a member of Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, launched a federal investigation last year into the long history of Native American boarding schools in the U.S., which aimed to assimilate children into European and American culture. The investigation, prompted by the discovery of thousands of child graves at Indigenous schools in Canada, includes naming the hundreds of schools and finding marked and unmarked gravesites.
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Harvard urged to return remains of enslaved people, thousands of Native Americans
The university’s museum collections possess the remains of nearly 7,000 Native Americans and at least 19 enslaved people, according to a document leaked to the school newspaper.
By Zachary Schermele
A leaked draft report from a Harvard faculty committee has revealed that the university possesses, in its museum collections, the remains of nearly 7,000 Native Americans and almost 20 people who were likely enslaved, according to The Harvard Crimson.
The draft report, which has not yet been finalized and was dated in April, is the work of a steering committee tasked with making plans for Harvard's collection of human remains. It urges the university to return the remains to descendants’ families — or, if ancestry is unclear, to consult with the descendants’ communities about how to address returning the remains.
According to the Crimson, the draft report acknowledges that the remains “were obtained under the violent and inhumane regimes of slavery and colonialism” and that they “represent the University’s engagement and complicity in these categorically immoral systems.”
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OIED soliciting applications for IBIP
The Indian Affairs Office of Indian Economic Development (OIED) is soliciting applications for its Native American Business Incubators Program (IBIP) Program Act of 2020 (P.L. 116-174). Funds awarded through the IBIP establish and operate business incubators that assist entrepreneurs by providing guidance and services like workspace, advice on how to access capital, business education, counseling, and mentorship opportunities to navigate obstacles in transforming their innovative ideas into operational businesses. The office is seeking to fund approximately 10 to 15 grants ranging in value from approximately $100,000 annually to $300,000 annually, for a 3-year term with an option to renew for an additional non-competitive 3-year term. Application information is located at https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338864 with the deadline of June 17, 2022.
The Indian Affairs Office of Indian Economic Development (OIED), Division of Economic Development (DED) Native American Business Development Institute (NABDI) grant offers competitive funding to Tribes and Alaska Native villages and entities funding feasibility studies that explore the viability Tribal economic development projects. The studies may be used to determine the likelihood of success for businesses in Tribal communities. The Notice of Funding Opportunity posted April 26, 2022 https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=NABDI with applications due by June 27, 2022. Pre-Application Technical Assistance is also now available through OIED’s contractor, Tribal Tech. https://www.bia.gov/service-page/technical-assistance
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FY 2022 Native American Languages Grant Competition
June 30, 2022, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) will conduct Tribal Consultation on the development of priorities for ED’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget. The purpose of the consultation will be to receive meaningful input and ensure that Tribal leader views inform budget priority development. Register at: https://www.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJItcOusqTgiHPr5SZr48Und8Xq2BmNLOWw
OIE 50th Anniversary Celebration
Description
Join us to celebrate, honor, recognize, and reflect on 50 years of the OIE!
10-11 a.m. Opening Session
11:00 a.m. - 11:45 p.m. Student Artist Competition Results
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. History of the OIE
1:15-2:45 p.m. OIE Former Directors Panel: Reflecting on 50 Years of Progress
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Student Testimonial Recognition
4:00 - 4:30 p.m. Closing Session
Jun 23, 2022 10:00 AM in EDT
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Runaway and Homeless Youth Transitional Living Program Notice of Funding Opportunity Now Available
The Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) announced the release of the Fiscal Year 2022 Transitional Living Program (TLP) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).
The Transitional Living Programs implement, enhance, and/or support effective strategies for successful transition to sustainable living for runaway and homeless youth ages 16 to under 22 and/or pregnant and parenting youth ages 16 to under 22 and their dependent child(ren).
Grants awarded under this announcement will have a start date of September 30, 2022 and will be for a 36-month project period. Applications are due by June 21, 2022.
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HHS Announces Funding Opportunity for New Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Behavioral Health Center of Excellence
In May for Mental Health Awareness Month, which is also Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is announcing a nearly $3.5 million five-year grant opportunity to develop a Center of Excellence, advancing behavioral health care for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities while reducing behavioral health-related disparities.
The AANHPI Behavioral Health Center of Excellence will promote culturally and linguistically appropriate behavioral health information and practices; establish a steering committee to identify emerging issues; and provide training, technical assistance, and consultation to practitioners, educators, and community organizations. Training topics include addressing mental health impacts caused by unconscious bias and hate against AANHPI communities.
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Violence Against Women and Substance Use Prevention Initiative
Estimated Total: $3,000,000
Award Amount: Up to $750,000 per budget period
Application Due Date: July 13, 2022
Eligible Applicants: Any public or private (profit or nonprofit) entity located in a State (which includes one of the 50 United States, District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands) is eligible to apply for an award under this announcement.
Community-based organizations, faith-based organizations and American Indian/Alaska Native/Native American (AI/AN/NA) organizations are eligible to apply. Examples of eligible Organizations include: • State Governments • U.S. territories • County Governments • City or township governments • Special district governments • Independent school districts • Public and State controlled institutions of higher education • Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) • Public Housing authorities/Indian housing authorities • Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments) • Nonprofits having 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education • Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education • Private institutions of higher education • For profit organizations, including small businesses.
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HHS Announces $2 Million Funding Opportunity to Establish National Center of Excellence on Social Media and Mental Wellness
Building on President Biden’s Unity Agenda priority to tackle our nation’s mental health crisis, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is announcing $2 million in funding to establish a national center of excellence (CoE) on social media and mental wellness. The purpose of the CoE will be to develop and disseminate information, guidance, and training on the impact—including benefits and risks—that social media use has on children and youth, especially the risks to their mental health. This CoE will also examine clinical and social interventions that can be used to mitigate the risks. Social media use can be associated with negative mental health outcomes, and children and youth are particularly vulnerable.
“In the past decade , the number of children and youth diagnosed with mental health conditions, such as anxiety and depression, has significantly increased, concurrent with significant increases in the amount of time children and youth are spending on social media,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. “While there are benefits to social media use, there are clearly risks, too – especially when it comes to mental health. This new center will help us better protect children and youth from these harms.”
Applications are due July 18. To view the notice of funding opportunity by SAMHSA, click here. |
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HHS Announces Its First-Ever Behavioral Health Recovery Innovation Challenge
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is announcing its first-ever behavioral health Recovery Innovation Challenge. The goal of this challenge is to identify innovations developed by peer-run or community-based organizations, and entities that may partner with them—such as local or state governments, health systems, hospitals, or health plans—that advance recovery.
SAMHSA defines recovery as a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live self-directed lives, and strive to reach their full potential. As President Biden said in his State of the Union address, we celebrate the 23 million Americans in recovery, and combating the opioid crisis that has touched so many Americans is a key element of the President’s Unity Agenda.
“Millions of Americans are living in various stages of recovery from mental health and substance use challenges, and whether they are beginning or continuing that journey, they deserve the most innovative and effective care and services available,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. “SAMHSA’s Recovery Innovation Challenge will allow us to learn from the recovery service community about tools and techniques they’re using at the state and local level that need to be scaled nationwide.”
Applications are due on July 15. To view the Notice of Funding Opportunity click here.
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HHS Announces $55 Million Funding Opportunity for Latest Iteration of its Tribal Opioid Response Grant Program
The U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is announcing $55 million in funding for its Tribal Opioid Response (TOR) grant program. This program reflects HHS’ commitment to evidence-based programs addressing opioid and stimulant misuse in tribal communities, as well as the Biden-Harris Administration’s Unity Agenda item of combatting addiction.
“Every five minutes someone in the U.S. dies from a drug overdose,” said Secretary Xavier Becerra. “The TOR program ensures this country’s Native American communities get connected to effective, culturally relevant treatment and recovery support services, which is critical to our work to advance health equity and address addiction and overdose.”
According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rate of drug overdose deaths among American Indians and Alaska Natives is above the national average. TOR supports the American Indian and Alaska Native Cultural Wisdom Declaration (CWD), which elevates the importance of tribal identities, culture, spiritual beliefs, and practices for improving well-being. Tribal entities are encouraged to include the following elements into grant applications as appropriate: ancestral cultural knowledge, wisdom, ceremony, and practices of American Indian and Alaska Native tribes.
Anyone seeking treatment for mental health or substance use issues should call SAMHSA’s National Helpline at 800-662-HELP (4357) or visit findtreatment.samhsa.gov. |
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United Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Awards
See below for a list of all currently open OJP funding opportunities, with links to the full text of the solicitation where you can locate information on how to apply.
We encourage you to check out the Applicant Resources section of the site for information and training on writing and submitting an application.
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JustGrants releases recent grant opportunities
The Department of Justice (DOJ) grant making components―the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office), the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)―have established this website to serve as a resource hub for their grants management system (JustGrants) and payment management system (ASAP), both of which launched on October 15, 2020.
This site provides information and resources to assist DOJ award applicants, recipients and other stakeholders most effectively register in and use these systems.
Visit the links below for further grant opportunities.
Grants.gov deadline: 6/16/2022 | JustGrants deadline: 6/21/2022
Grants.gov deadline: 6/15/2022 | JustGrants deadline: 6/22/2022
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Chief Harry Wallace skims through books containing the Algonquian Language of the Unkechaug Nation, which is working on a Revitalization Language Project currently implemented by the Poospatuck Cultural Foundation, Inc. (Photo: ANA video) |
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Checkout ANA’s ARP Grant Recipient Profile Video of Unkechaug Nation Chief Harry Wallace, who oversees the Algonquian Language Revitalization Project currently implemented by the Poospatuck Cultural Foundation, Inc.
In this video, Unkechaug Nation Chief Harry Wallace discusses the importance of preserving and teaching his tribes’ native language. Leveraging this ARP native language preservation funding, the Poospatuck Cultural Foundation is spearheading native language education programming on behalf of the Unkechaug Nation, a New York state-recognized tribe.
Watch the video here! Learn more about ANA's ARP grant recipients on our website!
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Check out ANA's ARP Grant Recipient
Highlight Podcasts
In September 2021, the Administration for Native Americans awarded approximately $20 million in grant funding to 210 recipients of the Native Language Preservation and Maintenance Emergency grant though the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP). This ARP funding supports federally and state recognized Tribes and Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander community organizations as they seek to ensure the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages.
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Learning Point Alaska, Inc. will map all the grammar, linguistics, and orthography rules to create this online interactive science class. This free interactive website will be intended for use by youth in the schools and the community wanting to build upon more knowledge of the Yup’ik language.
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Administration for Native Americans releases new podcast series
ANA is excited to announce the release of the new podcast series “Keeping Us Whole: Preventing Missing and Murdered Indigenous People.” This series will cover four main themes, “Preventing Violence, “Protecting our Children, “Protecting our LGBTQ2S Relatives,” and “Surviving, Serving, Speaking.”
Listen to the first episode of the 10-part podcast series by clicking on the link here.
For information on the podcast series, visit our website link below.
Click on the MMIP graphic below for viewing!
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Missing & Murdered Indigenous
Persons Memorial Shawl
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The Administration for Native Americans (ANA) offers blessings and words of healing to honor Missing and Murdered Native American victims and raise awareness for this crisis with a remembrance shawl.
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For those who want to submit a name to be added to the Administration for Native Americans’ MMNA Shawl, please email:
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