Native Public Health Resilience Planning | HS U1B3I 24 001

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The Native Public Health Resilience Planning grant is a discretionary funding opportunity from the Indian Health Service (IHS) designed to help Native communities strengthen public health readiness and long-term resilience by planning, capacity assessment, and clear performance measurement. Rather than funding a fully built-out public health department right away, the program focuses on the early, practical work that often determines whether a sustainable public health program can succeed: setting realistic goals, defining measurable outcomes, examining current administrative and operational capacity, and deciding whether developing or expanding a public health program is feasible for the applicant community or organization. In other words, it supports structured planning and honest readiness assessment so that future public health efforts are grounded in what is workable and sustainable.

A central requirement of the program is that applicants assess the availability and feasibility of delivering the 10 Essential Public Health Services (EPHS) in their setting. The EPHS framework has guided public health practice since 1994 and was updated in 2020 to place a stronger emphasis on equity and the conditions that shape health. These services cover the core functions communities rely on to protect and improve health, such as monitoring health status to identify and address community health problems, and diagnosing and investigating health problems and hazards. By using the EPHS as the planning lens, the grant pushes applicants to look beyond single programs or short-term projects and instead evaluate the full public health system needed to support community well-being. This aligns with the IHS mission to raise the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of American Indians and Alaska Natives to the highest level, and it fits with broader federal public health priorities like Healthy People, which has highlighted the importance of public health infrastructure and the ability of federal, Tribal, state, and local agencies to deliver essential services effectively.

Eligibility is limited to specific Native-serving entities as defined in federal law (25 U.S.C. 1603). Eligible applicants include federally recognized Indian Tribes (including Alaska Native villages and certain Alaska Native entities recognized for federal services), Tribal organizations (as defined under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act), and Urban Indian organizations (UIOs). Tribal organizations applying to serve more than one Tribe must show that each Tribe approves of the arrangement, and the application should include letters of support and/or Tribal Resolutions from the Tribes to be served. Urban Indian organizations must be nonprofit entities (typically documented through 501(c)(3) status) located in an urban center and governed by an urban Indian-controlled board, and they are expected to provide services only to eligible Urban Indians living within the urban center where the UIO is situated. The eligible applicant types listed for the opportunity also reflect these categories: Native American tribal governments (federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations, and nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education), along with other entities that fit the statutory definitions.

Administratively, this opportunity is listed as Funding Opportunity Title: Native Public Health Resilience Planning, Funding Opportunity Number: HS U1B3I 24 001, under CFDA 93.231, with grants as the funding instrument and health as the activity category. The posting shows an award ceiling of $200,000 and anticipates making about 24 awards. The original application closing date was May 14, 2024, and the opportunity was created on March 27, 2024. Overall, the grant is best understood as a planning and capacity-building investment that helps Tribal and Urban Indian entities take a structured, equity-focused look at what it would take to deliver the essential public health services in their communities, identify gaps, set measurable targets, and build a roadmap toward stronger, more resilient public health systems in Indian Country.

• The Indian Health Service in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Native Public Health Resilience Planning" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.231.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-03-27.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-05-14. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $200,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 24 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others.

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