Cooperative Agreement Program |
TRIBAL INJURY PREVENTION COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT PROGRAM - TIPCAP |
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 Infrastructure Cooperative Agreement Program (TIPCAP) provided funding through a competitive process. Tribes were awarded multi-year funding to hire a full-time Injury Prevention Coordinator, develop programs based on best practices in injury prevention. The IHS Injury Prevention Infrastructure Cooperative Agreement process is to build and sustain Tribal Injury Prevention program capacity. The collaboration in the infrastructure Cooperative Agreement process allowed the Indian Health Service to provide the technical guidance in injury prevention program development; implementation; evaluation; training and resource development. An annual training meeting of the CA recipients is hosted by IHS each grant year period. Twenty-two Tribal grantees are funded for 2005-2010. A full-time Injury Prevention Coordinator is hired for each program. The Cooperative Agreements grantees are categorized in two programs based on experience:
Part II Intervention grantees have funding for three years (2005-2008) includes 9 Tribal grantees. The Part II Intervention project goals are to 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. The total group includes 25 tribes and 7 tribal organizations: Part I Advanced Part I Basic Part II Intervention 2000-2005 Injury Prevention Tribal/Tribal Organizations Cooperative Agreement recipients: Taking Back Our Community, TBOC - Winslow, AZ (2003-2005) |