The Indian Health Service (IHS) www.ihs.gov Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI) is accepting new and competing continuation cooperative agreement applications for their “Community-Directed Grant Program”.
Over 330 programs have received SDPI Community-Directed grants annually since 1998 and a recent Congressional re-authorization extended SDPI through FY 2017. Last spring, the SDPI for FY 2016 was restructured to offer one Community-Directed grant program.
Although diabetes is a nationwide public health problem, American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people are disproportionately affected. In 2012, 15.9 percent of AI/AN people aged 20 years or older had diabetes as compared to 7.6 percent of non-Hispanic white people and have higher rates of diabetes-related morbidity and mortality than the general U.S. population.
In response to the burgeoning diabetes epidemic among AI/AN people, the SDPI established through Congress is a $150 million per year program that provides grants for diabetes treatment and prevention services administered by IHS.
The SDPI Community-Directed grantees are to provide diabetes treatment and/or prevention activities and services for the AI/AN community and implement one SDPI Diabetes Best Practice and report on required key measures. Grantees may also implement other activities and services based on what is needed in the community related to diabetes and then develop an evaluation plan.
The total amount of funding for FY 2016 is approximately $130.2 million. Individual award amounts are anticipated to be between $12,500 and $6.5 million with an average award amounts estimated to be approximately $300,000. About 325 to 450 awards will be issued under this program.
Eligible applicants can include federally recognized Indian Tribes, tribal organizations operating an Indian health program or one that is currently working under a grant of contract with IHS under Title v of the Indian health Care Improvement Act, Indian Health Service facilities, and current SDPI Community-Directed grantees.
Applications are due October 7, 2015. For more details, go to the August 4, 2015 Federal Register page 46289 or go to www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/Diabetes/index.cfm?