Overview
In its third cycle of funding, GHWIC operates under a 5-year cooperative agreement (2024 to 2029), with about $20.7 million in funding each year.
GHWIC reaches federally recognized tribes and Urban Indian Organizations, either through:
- Direct funding (Component 1) to tribes, villages, Urban Indian Organizations, and tribal organizations.
- Indirect funding through tribal organizations (Component 2).
- An umbrella tribal organization, which serves as the GHWIC coordinating center (Component 3).
Funding components
CDC funds 29 GHWIC awards across three components.
Component 1
Component 1 directly funds 13 tribes, at least one in each Indian Health Service (IHS) area, and 4 Urban Indian Organizations to implement chronic disease prevention strategies in their communities.
The strategies are chosen by the communities and include:
- Integrating traditional tribal practices.
- Establishing community-clinical linkages.
- Implementing multi-disciplinary team-based care.
Component 2
Component 2 indirectly funds tribes to implement chronic disease prevention strategies in their communities through 11 tribal organizations. Each tribal organization serves one IHS area.
These tribal organizations:
- Lead chronic disease prevention efforts.
- Provide funding to additional tribes, villages, and Urban Indian Organizations in their Indian Health Service Areas and Urban Areas.
- Offer technical support in chronic disease prevention to the tribes they support in their area.
Component 3
Component 3 funds one tribal organization to serve as a program-wide coordinating center to support GHWIC recipients by facilitating peer learning, sharing best practices, and coordinating a national evaluation using Indigenous and western methods.
The GHWIC coordinating center:
- Oversees projects.
- Manages logistics.
- Provides evaluation support.
- Supports communities of practice so recipients can share experiences and learn from each other.
GHWIC recipients, by component
GHWIC recipients are listed below for the 2024–2029 cycle.
Component 1 recipients
- Catawba Indian Nation (Rock Hill, SC)
- Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council, Inc. (Oklahoma City, OK)
- Confederated Tribes of Coos Lower Umpqua & Siuslaw Indians (Coos Bay, OR)
- Denver Indian Health and Family Services Inc. (Denver, CO)
- Fort Peck Community College (Fort Peck Assinibione and Sioux tribes) (Poplar, MT)
- Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center, Inc. (Milwaukee, WI)
- Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest (Portland, OR)
- Navajo Nation (Window Rock, AZ)
- Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
- Pinoleville Pomo Nation (Ukiah, CA)
- Ponca Tribe of Nebraska (Niobrara, NE)
- Pueblo of Pojoaque (Santa Fe, NM)
- Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska (Unalaska, AK)
- Santo Domingo Tribe-Kewa Health Outreach Program (Santo Domingo Pueblo, NM)
- Sault Sainte Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Sault Ste. Marie, MI)
- The Chickasaw Nation (Ada, OK)
- Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California (Gardnerville, NV)
Component 2 and 3 recipients
- Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Inc. (Anchorage, AK)
- Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board (Albuquerque, NM)
- California Rural Indian Health Board Inc. (Roseville, CA)
- Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council (Lac Du Flambeau, WI)
- Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Health Board (Rapid City, SD)
- Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona Inc. (Phoenix, AZ)
- Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (Portland, OR)
- Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council (Billings, MT)
- Seattle Indian Health Board – UIHI (Seattle, WA)
- Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation (Oklahoma City, OK)
- United South and Eastern Tribes Inc.** (Nashville, TN)
**United South and Eastern Tribes Inc. (USET) is a Component 2 recipient and is funded to serve as the Coordinating Center for GHWIC (Component 3 award).