Systems Of Care Tribal Communities
From fiscal year 1997 to fiscal year 2009, 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.
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.
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