Tuesday, May 7, 2024
5/7/2024
The Comanche Nation is a federally recognized tribe located in Comanche County, Oklahoma. The impact of historical and intergenerational trauma has created cycles of addiction, mental health problems, poverty, and crime and has led to a complete breakdown of individual and family relationships extending across generations within our tribal community. Lack of access to culturally-competent and responsive care has had a devastating impact on the mental health and stability of American Indian and Alaskan Natives (AI/AN) within our community. With this funding, the Comanche Nation will collaborate with detention centers, probation and parole, and other community services agencies within the criminal justice system, to provide and expand access to care for tribal citizens experiencing addiction and/or mental health crises who are currently incarcerated or at-risk for reincarceration. The overarching program goals are to insure culturally-responsive services and improve access to care to AI/AN individuals diagnosed with SUD/COD and returning to their families/communities after incarceration. The Comanche Nation will implement a Reentry Program which will provide supportive services to include safe, stable, and sober housing, assessment, treatment, case-management, and peer recovery support services. We will also work to identify and analyze local data sources in an effort to provide community education addressing SUD/COD awareness, education, and prevention, incarnation rates, and reentry initiatives within the local and surrounding communities. Collaborative community partnerships will be sought out and developed in order for the Comanche Nation to effectively engage within the community. Funding for CN FY2023 Adult Reentry Program will provide the Comanche Nation the ability to provide SUD/COD treatment and services and continue the healing process from the lasting effects of historical and intergenerational trauma.
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).
