Children and Youth Projects

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The Indian Health Service (IHS) announces a full competition for cooperative agreements for Children and Youth Projects (CYP) established to assist Federally-recognized Tribes, Tribal organizations and urban Indian organizations serving American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children and youth. These cooperative agreements are established under the authority of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, 25 U.S.C. 1621(o), and Section 301(a) of the Public Health Service Act, as amended. This program is described at 93.933 in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. In 2003, and again in 2006, the IHS, Office of the Director provided up to three years of support for the Child and Youth Health Initiative (CYHI) and CYP respectively. Twenty-three programs in rural, remote and urban AI/AN communities were awarded with additional funding support from the Administration for Native Americans (ANA) partnership in the first project period and eleven projects in the second project period. These community projects characterized varied approaches to promoting the health and wellbeing of AI/AN youth. The current announcement seeks to expand the reach into new communities and/or enhance existing programs.

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