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Center for Mental Health Services
Division of Service and Systems Improvement
Child, Adolescent, and Family Branch
American Indian/Alaska Native -
"Circles of Care"
DESCRIPTION: The Circles of Care program is designed to support Federally recognized tribal governments and urban Indian programs in their efforts to design and assess culturally appropriate mental health service models for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) children with serious emotional/behavioral disturbances and their families. The program supports AI/AN communities in their efforts to build the infrastructure to increase the capacity and effectiveness of their behavioral health service systems to reduce disparities between the need and the unique blend of federal and state programs available in their largely rural/frontier communities.
Knowledge regarding the formulation and evaluation of programs based on the needs, values, and principles of the grant communities will provide an important information base for tribes as well as for other special populations with cultural, linguistic, and geographic barriers to effective services.
Under this announcement, each grant community engages in a strategic planning process to assess the existing service system, identify strengths and needs, develop a model, and evaluate the potential cost and funding resources to implement the model.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Sixteen grants have been awarded to tribal and urban Indian communities within the past six years. The three-year grant program
is a cooperative effort with Indian Health Service and the National Institute for Mental Health.
EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE MEASURES:
- An adjusted system model that works for AI/AN and other special populations.
- Greater equity of opportunity for tribes in developing effective services for their children and youth with serious emotional/behavioral difficulties.
Technical Assistance:
National Indian Child Welfare Association
5100 SW Macadam Ave., Suite 300
Portland, Oregon 97201
Phone: (503) 222-4044
Fax: (503) 222-4007
URL: http://www.nicwa.org
- Technical Assistance for Community Development
- Public Policy Development
- Information Exchange
- Technical Assistance and Training for Tribal grantees of the Child, Adolescent and Family Branch of the Center for Mental Health Services.
National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Nighthorse Campbell Native Health Building
13955 East 17th Avenue, Room 349
Aurora, Colorado 80010-7238
Phone: (303) 724-1470
URL: http://www.uchsc.edu/ai/ncaianmhr/
- Research, research training
- Information dissemination
- Technical assistance provided on American Indian and Alaska Native populations
- Cross-site evaluation of funded sites in the Circles of Care grant program.
Funded Communities
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