Monday, May 6, 2024
5/6/2024
The population of focus is American Indian and Alaskan Natives (AI/AN). The target of focus maintains a culture within a culture that requires specific treatment and recovery services. The Muscogee (Creek) Nation (MCN) is the fourth largest federally recognized Tribe in the United States with a total population of 91,053 tribal citizens – more than half of whom live within the tribal reservation. The goal of the grant is to enhance medication-assisted treatment (MAT), provide education, training, and recovery support service (RSS) activities. Goal 1: Enhance the process to identify, screen, assess, and refer opioid use disorder (OUD) patients. Goal 2: Increase access to evidence-based treatment for those suffering from opioid use disorder Goal 3: Develop opioid misuse tracking activities. MCNDH will utilize funds from this award to identify, screen, and refer IHS beneficiaries suffering from OUD to MAT services with the tribe’s reservation. The award of this project will ensure that MCNDH can offer a comprehensive OUD recovery and pain management clinic for those patients with limited or no access to MAT services. It will also ensure that IHS beneficiaries will access these services without additional costs that they may experience elsewhere within the reservation. As part of this total service population, MCNDH plans to serve no less than 3,840 IHS eligible patients throughout the life of the project.
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).
