Thursday, March 13, 2025
3/13/2025
The Citizen Potawatomi Nation (CPN) in Shawnee, Oklahoma is requesting $500,000 in federal funding for the Community Opioid Intervention Prevention Program (COIPP). The CPN COIPP team in coordination with local partners, will address the overdose crisis in its community by developing and executing a culturally appropriate, family focused strategic plan to increase knowledge and use of culturally appropriate interventions. CPN will develop and expand community education and awareness of prevention, treatment and/ or recovery activities for opioid misuse and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and increase access to treatment, including Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), and recovery support services to those suffering from opioid misuse and OUD. Overdosed deaths in the Tribal community will be reduced by implementing and supporting harm reduction and prevention activities throughout the community. American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) people and their families within the CPN tribal health and social services program area, regardless of their tribal affiliation, constitute the population of focus for this project. The service area of the Citizen Potawatomi Tribal Health Services (CPNHS) includes five counties located in central Oklahoma (Cleveland, Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, and Pottawatomie). CPHNS patients who present with opioid misuse or OUD will have access to a comprehensive suite of culturally appropriate treatment services coordinated with detox, MAT, inpatient, and outpatient services, individual, group and family therapy, and recovery support services including sober living. The CPN COIPP project team will first update their recovery-oriented, and equity-based Strategic Plan to focus on improving the overall behavioral health of our Tribal community and CPNHS patients. The Strategic Plan will include the following goals and objectives: (1) Develop and expand community education and awareness of prevention, treatment, and recovery activities for opioid misuse and OUD. (2) Increase knowledge and use of culturally appropriate intervention and encourage an increased use of MAT/medications for OUD. (3) Provide prevention, treatment, and recovery services. (4) Increase harm reduction within our Tribal community. (5) Assess the impact of the COIPP program. In 2021, the United Health Foundation/America’s Health Rankings Report determined Oklahoma’s drug death rates due to drug injury of any intent (unintentional, suicide, homicide or undetermined) per 100,000 population was 24.9, an increase since 2019 of 8 drug deaths per 100,000 population within a one-year period. Furthermore, the death rate of Oklahoma’s non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) population was 36.7, a higher death rate than any other race/ethnicity in the state. Drug overdose death rates were the highest for AI/AN people during 2021 and 2022 and continue to increase. The CPN COIPP project will reduce those rates by addressing gaps in treatment and recovery services for OUD patients, providing more access to MAT, and through strategic prevention and harm reduction efforts. The tribal community supports a holistic, cultural foundation to education, prevention, treatment, and recovery building on the community’s strong resilience. CPN tribal leaders have an urgency to prevent death and eliminate or reduce substance abuse by promoting mental health and wellness among the entire tribal community.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).