American Indian Children's Mental Health Programs
Since 1997, the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) has collaborated with Center for Mental Health Services of the Substance Abuse Mental Health Service Administration, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the U.S. Department of Justice, and Indian Health Service through a contract to provide technical assistance to tribal/urban recipients of both the Circles of Care grant program and Systems of Care implementation grants. This cooperative effort is sometimes referred to as the Indian Children's Mental Health Initiative.
Circles of Care Project
Circles of Care is a 3-year federal planning grant through the Center for Mental Health Services targeted specifically at enabling Indian communities to evaluate their current children's mental health system and develop a model program based on the systems of care principles. NICWA provided TA to nine urban and tribal communities for the first round of grants in the 1999-2001 federal fiscal year, and also serve the seven grantees in the second round of 2002-2004 grants.
Circles of Care Grantees 2005 - 2008
Cherish the Children
Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
Keeping the Circle Whole
Denver Indian Family Resource Center
Lakewood, CO
Strengthening Our Children
Indian Health Care Resource Center of Tusla, Inc.
Tulsa, OK
To Carry On
Muscogee (Creek) Nation Health System
Okmulgee, OK
Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest, Inc. (NARA)
Portland, OR
Quileute Circles of Care Program
Quileute Tribe
LaPush, WA
Sinte Gleska University
Mission, SD
National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA)
Children's Mental Health
Portland, OR
Circles of Care Evaluation Technical Assistance Center (CoCETAC)
University of Colorado Health Services Center American Indian and Alaska Native Programs
Aurora, CO
Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Rockville, MD
IHS Headquarters East Behavioral Health Program
Rockville, MD
Summer 2007 Grantee Meeting Presentation Materials:
Evalutation Transition PPT
Overview Fin Feasibility Aug 2007 v2 PPT
Grantee meeting denver PPT
Gary Blau PPT
Circles of Care Tribal Youth Leaders
The third round of Circles of Care projects includes a new component: youth involvement. Youth are included so they can share their voice in the planning process describing their needs and preferred ways of getting them met in a service delivery model. This power point was created by these young people during the summer 2007 grantee meeting in Denver, CO.
CoC Youth Pathways Presentation PPT
Children's Mental Health Initiative
The Systems of Care implementation grants are five year federal grants through the Center for Mental Health Services that fund county, state, and tribally operated mental health programs to implement services based on the systems of care principles. NICWA provides TA for the tribal grantees.
Systems of Care Grantees
CARES (Year 5)
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Talihina, OK
10/1/02 to 8/31/08
Ch'eghutsen (Year 5)
Fairbanks Native Association
Fairbanks, AK
10/1/02 to 8/31/08
Urban Trails (Year 4)
Native American Health Center
Oakland, CA
10/1/03 to 8/31/09
Po'ka Project (Year 2)
Blackfeet Nation
Browning, MT
9/30/05 to 9/29/2011
Tiwahe Wakan (Family as Sacred) (Year 2)
Yankton Sioux Tribe
Wagner, SD
9/30/05 to 9/29/2011
(Year 2)
California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc. & United American Indian Involvement, Inc.
Sacramento, CA
9/30/05 to 9/29/2011
Sewa Uusim (Year 1)
Flower Children: Our Hope, Our Light, Our Future
Pascua Yaqui Tribe
Tucson, AZ
10/1/06 to 10/31/11