Addressing Dementia in Tribal and Urban Indian Communities: Enhancing Sustainable Models of Care | HHS 2025 IHS ALZ 0002

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The Indian Health Service (IHS) is offering a discretionary cooperative agreement opportunity called "Addressing Dementia in Tribal and Urban Indian Communities: Enhancing Sustainable Models of Care" (Funding Opportunity Number: HHS 2025 IHS ALZ 0002; CFDA 93.933). The purpose of this program is to improve how dementia care is delivered in Tribal and Urban Indian health settings by helping communities build stronger, culturally grounded systems that better support people living with dementia as well as their caregivers, families, and the wider community. The focus is not only on adding services in the short term, but also on building durable local capacity and creating care models that can be maintained and strengthened over time.

The program is designed around four core priorities. First, it supports the expansion of locally driven capacity to provide culturally relevant and comprehensive dementia care and supportive services, recognizing that effective care in Tribal and Urban Indian communities must reflect community values, language, traditions, and lived realities. Second, it funds new opportunities and additional services that enhance and strengthen existing clinical approaches, meaning applicants are encouraged to improve what is already in place in clinics and health programs rather than starting from scratch, especially where they can close gaps in screening, assessment, care coordination, caregiver support, or wraparound services. Third, it emphasizes long-term sustainability planning and evaluation for Tribal and Urban Indian health clinical programs, services, and systems, so that projects do not end when the grant ends and so that sites can show what is working, what is not, and what should be scaled. Fourth, it supports documentation and dissemination of locally developed emerging practices and comprehensive care models, with the idea that promising approaches created in one community can be shared in useful ways with other Tribal or Urban Indian programs while still respecting local differences.

Eligible applicants include federally recognized Indian Tribes, Tribal organizations, and Urban Indian Organizations. Federally recognized Tribes are defined under 25 U.S.C. 1603(14), which broadly covers Indian Tribes, bands, nations, and other organized groups or communities, including Alaska Native villages or regional or village corporations recognized as eligible for special federal programs and services due to their status. Tribal organizations are defined under 25 U.S.C. 1603(26) and reference the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act definition (25 U.S.C. 5304(l)), covering recognized Tribal governing bodies as well as legally established Indian organizations that are controlled, sanctioned, chartered, or democratically elected by the Indian community served, and that ensure maximum participation of Indians in all phases of activity. A key application requirement for Tribal organizations is that they must submit letters of support or Tribal Resolutions from the Tribes they will serve, and if the project benefits more than one Tribe, each Tribe must approve the arrangement. Urban Indian Organizations must meet the definition in 25 U.S.C. 1603(29), be nonprofit corporate bodies located in urban centers, governed by an urban Indian-controlled board, and structured to ensure maximum participation of interested Indian groups and individuals. They must also be currently administering a contract or receiving an award under 25 U.S.C. 1653, and they must provide proof of nonprofit status as part of eligibility documentation.

The award instrument is a cooperative agreement, which typically means IHS expects to have substantial involvement with recipients during the project period compared to a standard grant, often through collaboration, guidance, or shared oversight tied to program goals and deliverables. The opportunity anticipates making about 8 awards, with an award ceiling of $200,000. The closing date listed for applications is 2025-08-01, and the funding opportunity record shows a creation date of 2025-06-30. Overall, the program is aimed at helping Tribal and Urban Indian health programs strengthen dementia care in ways that are culturally meaningful, clinically practical, measurable, and sustainable, while also capturing and sharing emerging models that can inform broader improvement across Indian health settings.

• The Indian Health Service in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Addressing Dementia in Tribal and Urban Indian Communities: Enhancing Sustainable Models of Care" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.933.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-06-30.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-08-01. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $200,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 8 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Others.

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