Unintentional injuries and suicides pose a major challenge for American Indian and Alaskan Native communities with rates that are four to five times the all US population (Indian Health Focus Injuries, 1996-98). To address the disparity in the unintentional injury problem, Indian Health Service provided funding for tribes to develop their infrastructure in injury prevention. Established in 1997, the Indian Health Service Tribal Injury Prevention Cooperative Agreement Program (TIPCAP) provided funding through a competitive process. Tribes were awarded multi-year funding to hire a full-time Injury Prevention Coordinator and to develop programs based on effective strategies or best practices in injury prevention. This collaboration with the awardees allows the Indian Health Service to provide the technical guidance in injury prevention program development; implementation; evaluation; training and resource development. An annual training meeting with the recipients is hosted by IHS each year.
The Cooperative Agreements grantees are categorized in three programs:
- The Part I-A grantees are new or with less experience with the IHS Injury Prevention Program. $65,000 for five years.
- The Part I-B grantees are tribes or tribal organizations who are previous TIPCAP participants. $80,000 for five years.
- The Part II grantees are tribes or tribal organizations who develop, implement, and evaluate proven or promising injury prevention intervention programs. These are specific interventions that have been tested and accepted widely to prevent injury morbidity and mortality. $10,000 for three years.
The IHS Injury Prevention has funded more than 70 grantees since 1997. The lessons learned over the years has helped to shape the program to foster new ideas, best practices and overcome many challenges with continued benefit to reducing injuries at AI/AN communities (rural & urban), pueblos and villages. The new TIPCAP grantees will address the two IHS Injury Prevention Program priorities: 1) Motor Vehicle and 2) Fall Prevention. The TIPCAP grantees will employ effective strategies in collaboration with key partners to target specific injury risk and hazards.
We are very pleased to announce 40 tribal TIPCAP awardees from 10 IHS areas in 2010:
Part I-A (New) – 5 Year Projects
- Great Plains Tribal Chairman‘s Health Board, SD
- Oglala Tribe, SD
- Maniilaq Association, AK
- Tanana Chiefs Conference, AK
- Ho-Chunk, WI
- Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
- Tule River Indian Tribe, CA
- Tuba City Regional Health Facility, AZ
- Absentee Shawnee Tribe, OK
- Colorado River Indian Tribe, AZ
- Gila River Indian Community, AZ
- Hualapai Tribe, AZ
- Reno Sparks Indian Colony, NV
- San Carlos Apache Tribe, AZ
- NorthWest Washington Area Indian Health Board, WA
- Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, OR
Part I-B (Previously Funded) – 5 Year Projects
- Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, SD
- SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, AK
- Norton Sound Health Corp., AK
- Bristol Bay Area Health Corp., AK
- Pueblo of San Felipe, NM
- Pueblo of Jemez , NM
- Fond Du Lac Reservation, MN
- Bad River, WI
- Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin
- Indian Health Council Inc., CA
- California Rural Indian Health Board
- Hardrock Council on Substance Abuse Prevention, AZ
- Navajo Nation, AZ
- Kaw Nation, OK
- Kiowa, OK
- Choctaw Nation, OK
Part II – 3 Year Projects
- Southern Ute, CO
- Stockbridge-Munsee Community, WI
- Greenville Rancheria, CA
- St Regis Mohawk, NY
- Chitmacha Tribe of Louisiana, LA
- Walker River Paiute Tribe, AZ
- Ak-Chin Indian Community, AZ
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