Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Rural Communities Opioid Response-Implementation - Project Title: Four Corners Indigenous Network Consortium Requested Award Amount: $1,000,000 Applicant Organization Name: Capacity Builders, Inc. Applicant Organization Address: 418 West Broadway, Farmington, NM 87401 Applicant Organization: Non-Profit Community Development Agency Project Director Gloria Dee, Project Director Project Director Contact Information: 505.278-7789; g.dee@capacitybuilders.info Are you a current FY20 or FY21 RCORP Implementation award recipient? No EIN/DUNS Number Exception Request in Attachment 8? No How the Applicant First Learned About the Funding Opportunity: HRSA News Release Number of Consortium Members & List of Consortium Members: Four Members - Navajo Nation Department of Corrections (law enforcement); Nahata Foundation Inc. (community service); Family Harmony Program (shelter); and Shiprock Community Chapter (community service). Previous or Current RCORP Grant Recipient? FY18 RCORP-Planning Applicant Organization# G25RH32925 Does target service area overlap with an existing FY19 or FY 20 RCORP-Implementation award recipient’s service area (Y/N): No Brief Description of the Target Population: Native population of Northern Agency, including Shiprock has 97% of American Indian population. Historically, American Indian population have greater health disparities in inequalities to health care. The American Indian people have long experienced lower health status when compared with other Americans. Lower life expectancy and the disproportionate disease burden. The Northwest Agency of the Navajo Nation which includes a rural community called Shiprock has suffered disproportionately compared to the national Opioid crisis in the battle against opioid addiction as well as substance abuse especially now with the COVID pandemic. In order to implement a systematic change in reducing the cases of SUD/OUD, Capacity Builders, Inc (CBI), will continue to lead and facilitate the Four Corners Indigenous Network. Effective strategies to address the genuine and present danger of the opioid crisis must be tailored to the unique landscape of the Navajo Nation – small, isolated communities surrounding the northwest corner that are facing a drug challenge that outpaces the statistical impact in most urban centers. Local-level data must be collected, and local resources must be mobilized and coordinated to address the crisis from three different angles: prevention, treatment, and recovery. A locally developed solution demonstrated effectively, could then be disseminated to other isolated communities across the reservation, serving as a blueprint for rural sectors with limited capacity to address the increasing rates of opioid misuse and addiction among their families. As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage America’s largest reservation leaving a trail of loss that introduces new shared traumas to the vulnerable and underserved, the opioid crisis stands poised to intensify exponentially. The need for strategic, coordinated efforts to address opioids on America’s Tribal Lands has never been greater.
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