Funding and Resources
Access to American Indian Recovery (AAIR)
The Access to American Indian Recovery (AAIR) is a substance abuse treatment and recovery support program funded through a grant by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The grant is administered by the California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc. (CRIHB) and the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB). We work to empower American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people in California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington to break the cycle of drug and alcohol addiction while achieving long-term recovery.
AAIR is part of a national Access to Recovery (ATR) program initiated to create options that allow people to independently select from a statewide network of native and non-native providers. AAIR believes that the Northwest AI/AN communities have the knowledge and capability to identify their own needs and solutions for substance abuse problems within their own communities. In supporting this idea, AAIR will coordinate a network of community-based providers to help individuals and families access high quality treatment and recovery support services. In addition, AAIR has committed over $14 million dollars to be distributed between California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington to receive treatment over a three year period. These monies will help pay for substance abuse treatment and recovery support services when there are no other means of funding available.
Applying to be a provider:
If your health center wishes to provide services to AI/AN people in Oregon, Washington or Idaho, you are welcome to apply over website. All new applicants are required to complete and submit a Provider Enrollment Application to apply for enrollment in AAIR. Once you submit the application and the required supporting documents, it will be reviewed by AAIR and you will be notified of the decision within a few weeks.
AAIR providers are among the most dedicated and experienced providers in the Northwest and each must meet these provider qualification standards before being enrolled in our program:
Clinical provider qualification standards
Traditional healer/spiritual advisor qualification standards
To obtain a provider application a provider can go online and submit at: http://www.crihb.org/aair under “provider enrollment application”
Training:
The first Northwest training will be in the Coeur d’Alene Tribal Wellness Center on April 2, 2008
Accessing services:
Here are a few of the websites/numbers if you have additional questions:
For Substance Abuse Mental Health Service Administration: http://www.atr.samhsa.gov
For Access to American Indian Recovery (AAIR): http://www.crihb.org/aair
For the AAIR call center (866) 350-8772
Grantee Organization: California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc. (CRIHB)
Project Name: Access to American Indian Recovery (AAIR)
Grant Name: Access to Recovery
Grant Number: H 79 TI019501-01
Project Contacts:
Erik Kakuska
AAIR Project Specialist
NW Portland Area Indian Health Board
503-416-3296
Sonciray Bonnell
Health Resource Coordinator
NW Portland Area Indian Health Board
527 SW Hall, Suite 300
Portland, OR 97201
(503) 228-4185 ext. 260
Program Office: Office of Community Services
Funding Opportunity Title: Assets for Independence Demonstration Program
Announcement Type: Initial
Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2008-ACF-OCS-EI-0053
CFDA Number: 93.602
Due Date for Applications:
01/15/2008 and 03/25/2008
01/15/2009 and 03/25/2009
01/15/2010 and 03/25/2010
Executive Summary:
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Community Services (OCS), will accept applications for grants to establish and administer Assets for Independence (AFI) projects. Grantees provide an array of supports and services to enable individuals and families with low incomes to become economically self-sufficient for the long-term. A primary feature of each AFI project is that project participants are given access to special matched savings accounts called Individual Development Accounts (IDA), in which participants save earned income for the purchase of a home, for business capitalization, or to attend higher education or training. Grantees also ensure that participants have access to financial literacy education and coaching including training on money management and consumer issues.
As a condition of their Federal AFI grant, grantees must provide non-Federal funds to support their AFI project in an amount at least equal to the Federal AFI grant amount.
Applications will be screened and evaluated as indicated in this announcement. Unsuccessful applicants may submit new applications in any succeeding application cycle.
This is a standing announcement. This announcement supersedes the standing announcement published in the Federal Register on February 2, 2005. It will be effective until cancelled or changed by the Director of OCS.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-OCS-EI-0053.html
Application due dates are January 15 and March 25 in 2008, 2009, and 2010.
Program Office: Administration on Children, Youth, and Families; Family and Youth Services Bureau
Funding Opportunity Title: Basic Center Program
Announcement Type: Initial
Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2008-ACF-ACYF-CY-0063
CFDA Number: 93.623
Due Date for Applications: 02/19/2008
Executive Summary:
The Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) is accepting applications for the Basic Center Program (BCP), which is authorized by the Runaway and Homeless Act to address runaway and homeless youth (RHY) problems. BCPs provide an alternative for runaway and homeless youth who might otherwise end up with law enforcement or in the child welfare, mental health, or juvenile justice systems. Each BCP must provide runaway and homeless youth with a safe and appropriate shelter, individual, family, and group counseling as appropriate, and aftercare.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-ACYF-CY-0063.html
Program Office: Administration for Native Americans (ANA)
Funding Opportunity Title: Social and Economic Development Strategies for Native Americans (SEDS)
Announcement Type: Initial
Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2008-ACF-ANA-NA-0003
CFDA Number: 93.612
Due Date for Applications: 03/26/2008
Executive Summary:
The Administration for Native Americans (ANA), within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), announces the availability of Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 funds for new community-based projects under the ANA Social and Economic Development Strategies (SEDS) program. ANA’s FY 2008 SEDS goals and program areas of interest are focused on strengthening children, families, and communities through community-based organizations, Tribes, and Village governments. The purpose of ANA is to promote the goal of economic and social self-sufficiency for American Indians, Native Hawaiians, Alaskan Natives, and other Native American Pacific Islanders, including American Samoa Natives.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-ANA-NA-0003.html
Improving the Well-Being of Children - Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative
Announcement Type: Initial
Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2008-ACF-ANA-NI-0021
CFDA Number: 93.612
Due Date for Applications: 03/26/2008
Executive Summary:
The Administration for Native Americans (ANA), within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), announces the availability of Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 funds for projects that plan for and implement approaches to improve child well-being by removing barriers associated with forming healthy marriages (including Traditional Native American marriages), sustaining healthy marriages and strengthening families (including absentee parent activities) in Native American communities. ANA’s FY 2008 goals and program areas of interest are focused on strengthening children, families, and communities through financial assistance to community-based organizations including faith-based organizations, Tribes, and Village governments.
Financial assistance under this program is provided utilizing a competitive process in accordance with the Native American Programs Act of 1974, as amended. The purpose of this Act is to promote the goal of economic and social self-sufficiency for American Indians, Native Hawaiians, Alaskan Natives, and other Native American Pacific Islanders, including American Samoa Natives.
The ACF Healthy Marriage Initiative (HMI) seeks to improve child well-being by helping those who choose marriage for themselves to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to form and sustain healthy marriages. Research demonstrates the strong correlation between family structure and a family’s social and economic well-being. More information on the HMI is available at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/healthymarriage/index.html.
Each year, with the release of the annual Drug Free Communities (DFC) Request for Applications (RFA), the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and its Federal partners host a series of grant application workshops throughout the country to assist community coalitions who are interested in applying for a DFC grant. We intend to release the FY08 RFA on or about January 14th, 2008, and are pleased to announce the following dates and cities for this year’s workshops:
* New Orleans, LA - January 23rd
* Los Angeles, CA - January 29th
* Chicago, IL - January 31st
* *Denver, CO - February 5th
* *Denver, CO- February 6th (DFC for Native American Communities)
* Washington, DC - February 15th
*Tentative- Location to be confirmed shortly
In the very near future, we will provide registration details, exact locations, and hotel information.
For FY08, President Bush proposed and Congress appropriated $90 million for DFC. As a result, we anticipate that we will fund approximately 150 New DFC grantees this year. New applicants may apply for up to $125,000 per year for a five-year period.
Additional details about the workshops, including registration information, will be posted to the Drug Free Communities website at http://www.ondcp.gov/dfc/potentialgrantees.html as soon as they are available. We also plan to post a series of online audio files of the application workshop to the DFC website once the trainings are complete.
Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program FY 2008 Competitive Grant Announcement
$19 MILLION IN DRUG PREVENTION GRANTS AVAILABLE TO 150 AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
REGIONAL WORKSHOPS TO ASSIST POTENTIAL GRANT APPLICANTS
(Washington, D.C.) - Today, the White House Office of National Drug Control (ONDCP), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced the availability of new, Drug Free Communities (DFC) Support Program funds - totaling $19 million. ONDCP expects to award approximately 150 new grants to community drug prevention coalitions throughout the United States. The deadline to submit DFC grantee applications is Friday, March 21, 2008.
“The DFC program is aimed at helping American communities - be it in the inner-cities, suburbs, or rural areas - identify local problems and solve them with local solutions,” said Director of National Drug Control Policy, John P. Walters. “By leveraging the best a community has to offer, the DFC program organizes and mobilizes community efforts against youth substance use in true partnership with the Federal government. Community-by-community we can continue the successful gains against youth drug use - 24 percent reduction over the past 6 years - and continue to push back against illicit drugs.”
The DFC support program is a collaborative Federal program sponsored by ONDCP, and administered in partnership with SAMHSA. The program aims to establish and strengthen communities, private nonprofit agencies, and Federal, State, local and Tribal governments and entities to support community-based efforts to prevent, reduce, and eliminate substance abuse. The DFC program was created in 1997 under the Drug Free Communities Act, and was reauthorized in 2001, and again in 2006. The latest reauthorization extends the DFC program for an additional five years, until 2012.
“The Drug-Free Communities Support Program is the foundation of our efforts to continue to prevent and reduce substance abuse in our nation,” said SAMHSA Administrator Terry Cline, Ph.D. “This community-wide approach promotes safe and healthy environments where families can raise children free from the ravages of substance abuse.”
In order to assist potential Drug Free Communities applicants through the grant process, ONDCP, SAMHSA, and the National Coalition Institute have scheduled six regional DFC FY08 application workshops. The workshops are free and open to the public. They will be held from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in five different cities. (Applicants do not have to attend a workshop in order to apply for a grant).
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 New Orleans, Louisiana
Thursday, January 29, 2008 Los Angeles, California
Thursday, January 31, 2008 Chicago, Illinois
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 Denver, Colorado
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 Denver, Colorado (Native American Summit)
Friday, February 15, 2008 Washington, DC
The Drug Free Communities Support Program is the largest Federal drug prevention effort in the United States with over $90 million in total investment. Since 1998, ONDCP has awarded approximately 1,300 Drug Free Communities grants in all 50 states. This year, each successful DFC grantee will receive up to $125,000 per year in Federal matching funds over a 5-year cycle to support community-based substance abuse prevention and reduction efforts.
To learn more about the Drug Free Communities Support Program, or the upcoming grant application deadline, please visit http://www.ondcp.gov/dfc.
Tribes win grant for addiction program.
Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council was recently awarded an Access to Recovery grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This grant will be used to set up treatment for methamphetamines and other substances.
A $5.6 million federal grant awarded to the Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council will help American Indian communities battle addictions to methamphetamine and other substances.
The money, to be dispensed over three years, will fund the Rocky Mountain Tribal Access to Recovery, a new program designed to broaden treatment and support systems available to tribal members with addictions. Applicants around the U.S. The tribal leaders council, made up of representatives from 10 tribes in the two states, competed for the grant with about 40 applicants from around the country.
“You had a very compelling application that talked about partnerships,” said Terry Cline, administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the federal agency that awarded the grant. “That really was the point that caught SAMHSA’s eye.” Cline spoke during a press conference in Billings on Monday.
About 15 percent of American Indians in Montana and Wyoming, or about 11,000 people, need some form of substance abuse treatment, Cline said, but only 4,000 of them are getting it. “We all know substance abuse has always been part of our communities,” said Ed Wadda, an Indian Affairs liaison for Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal’s office. “We would like to put that out of business.” Methamphetamine abuse is of particular concern to tribal leaders.
“It’s like a cancerous growth,” said Gordon Belcourt, executive director of the tribal leaders council. “It has tentacles out there for suicide, tentacles for co-occurring disorders and mental-health problems, declines in productivity and high unemployment rates.
‘Society in distress’
“It’s really indicative of a culture and society in distress,” Belcourt said.
The Rocky Mountain Tribal Access to Recovery is a partnership between the tribal leaders council and 15 Montana and Wyoming tribal and urban Indian substance abuse programs. It aims to fill gaps in the existing treatment system by providing funding for services such as transportation, child care, cultural mentoring, spiritual support and programs for sober recreation and exercise.
“This is a prime example of what can be done between communities and different political entities,” said Carl Venne, who is chairman of the Crow Tribe and chairman of the tribal leaders council. “This is just a start. What a happy moment for all of us.”
SAMHSA awarded a first round of Access to Recovery grants to 15 entities in 2004. That money has helped 170,000 people across the nation, Cline said.
The Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council was among 24 entities to receive a total of $98 million in the second round of funding.
“This is another step in helping our first Montanans achieve the most productive lives they can,” said Billings Mayor Ron Tussing.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is soliciting applications for grants that will expand the availability of comprehensive, high-quality, residential treatment, recovery support, and family services for pregnant and postpartum women who suffer from alcohol and other drug problems, and their minor children who have been impacted by perinatal and environmental effects of maternal substance use and abuse. It is expected that $7.87 million will be available to fund up to 16 grants for up to three years.
Since 1992, this program has evolved from a core program that addresses the needs of women and their minor children to include the treatment needs of the whole family. This family-centered treatment approach builds on the strength and resources of the entire family, supports sustained recovery for individual family members, and improves overall family functioning.
Residential treatment programs must offer women and their minor children organized substance abuse treatment services that feature a planned regimen of care in a safe 24-hour residential setting with staff supervision. Any off-site treatment services must be well coordinated and integrated to ensure that specific aspects of the individual’s treatment plan and services for her children can be addressed in both facilities. When minor children cannot reside in the treatment facility with their mother, and there are no other current living arrangements available, alternative safe and appropriate accommodations for the children must be arranged in consultation with the mother. It is also important that these children receive required interventions and services and are actively engaged in the treatment process with their mothers.
WHO CAN APPLY: Eligible applicants are domestic public and private nonprofit entities. State and local governments, federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native tribes and tribal organizations, urban Indian organizations, public or private universities and colleges, and community- and faith-based organizations may apply. For-profit agencies are prohibited from receiving these grants. PPW grantees funded as of September 29, 2006 are not eligible to apply under this grant announcement.
HOW TO APPLY: Applications for No. TI-08-009 are available by calling SAMHSA’s Information Line at 1-877-SAMHSA7 [TDD: 1-800-487-4889] or by downloading at http://www.samhsa.gov/Grants/2008/ti_08_009.aspx Applicants are encouraged to apply online using http://www.grants.gov .
APPLICATION DUE DATE: March 18, 2008. Applications must be received by the due date to be considered for review. Please see Section IV-3 of the application for revised FY 2008 submission requirements.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Non-Federal matching funds are required for this program and may be in cash or in-kind donations. The matching funds must not be less than $1 for each $9 of Federal funds provided in years one and two, and not less than $1 for each $3 of Federal funds in any subsequent year. Sources of matching funds are State and local government appropriations, foundations, and other private nonprofit or for-profit organizations. In-kind contributions may include facilities, equipment, or services used in direct support of the project.
Applicants with questions about program issues should contact Linda White Young at 240-276-1581 or For questions about grants management issues, contact Kathleen Sample at 240-276-1407 or .
