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Absentee Shawnee Tribal Health System: HEAL Initiative: Native Collective Research Effort to Enhance Wellness (N CREW) Program- Addressing Overdose, Substance Use, Mental Health, and Pain (OT2)

Award Number: OT2DA061113
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/01/2024
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 03/31/2027

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Absentee Shawnee Tribal Health System: HEAL Initiative: Native Collective Research Effort to Enhance Wellness (N CREW) Program- Addressing Overdose, Substance Use, Mental Health, and Pain (OT2) - The Absentee Shawnee Tribe (AST) is building the AST Clinical Research Center: a research center owned and governed by the Tribe itself, embedded within the Absentee Shawnee Tribal Health System. The Center exists to help the Tribe understand and address chronic pain and the substance use and behavioral health challenges that travel with it – conditions that disproportionately burden Native communities and that our own community identified as its priority. AST is building the foundations of tribally led health research. These include a governance structure that keeps research accountable to the community; a growing tribal research workforce; and a secure, tribally housed data infrastructure that allows the Tribe to learn from its own health data under Indigenous data sovereignty principles – the Tribe owns its data, controls who may access it, and decides how findings are used. The Center's first major use of this infrastructure is a mixed-methods pilot study that pairs the health system's data with community members' own accounts of living with pain and seeking care. Together, these will show where care is working, where it falls short, and where the community believes change is most needed. The knowledge generated will inform improvements in care at AST clinics and prepare the Tribe to lead future intervention studies. Grounded in the understanding that Native communities have always been researchers – observing, testing, and innovating within their own knowledge systems – this project demonstrates that rigorous, culturally grounded health research can be led by the Tribe, for the Tribe, and offers a model that other Native nations can adapt to their own contexts. This study is part of the NIH’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) initiative to speed scientific solutions for the overdose epidemic, including opioid and stimulant use disorders, and the crisis of chronic pain. The NIH HEAL Initiative bolsters research across NIH to improve treatment for opioid misuse and addiction and acute and chronic pain.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = $198,005 )
2026	2026	ABSENTEE SHAWNEE TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA	2025 GORDON COOPER DR	SHAWNEE	OK	74801	POTTAWATOMIE	USA	The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Helping to End Addiction Long-term® (HEAL) Initiative	004	1	9/4/2026	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$198,005
2026	2025	ABSENTEE SHAWNEE TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA	2025 GORDON COOPER DR	SHAWNEE	OK	74801	POTTAWATOMIE	USA	Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders	001	1	7/8/2026	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
2026	2025	ABSENTEE SHAWNEE TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA	2025 GORDON COOPER DR	SHAWNEE	OK	74801	POTTAWATOMIE	USA	Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders	000	1	2/13/2026	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
2026	2024	ABSENTEE SHAWNEE TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA	2025 GORDON COOPER DR	SHAWNEE	OK	74801	POTTAWATOMIE	USA	Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders	003	1	9/3/2026	NEW	$0
2026	2024	ABSENTEE SHAWNEE TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA	2025 GORDON COOPER DR	SHAWNEE	OK	74801	POTTAWATOMIE	USA	Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders	002	1	7/30/2026	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $198,005

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $479,826 )
2025	2025	ABSENTEE SHAWNEE TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA	2025 GORDON COOPER DR	SHAWNEE	OK	74801	POTTAWATOMIE	USA	Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders	001	1	9/9/2025	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$479,826
2025	2024	ABSENTEE SHAWNEE TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA	2025 GORDON COOPER DR	SHAWNEE	OK	74801	POTTAWATOMIE	USA	Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders	000	1	6/28/2025	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $479,826

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $655,023 )
2024	2024	ABSENTEE SHAWNEE TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA	2025 GORDON COOPER DR	SHAWNEE	OK	74801	POTTAWATOMIE	USA	Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders	000	1	7/31/2024	NEW	$655,023
2024	2024	ABSENTEE SHAWNEE TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA	2025 GORDON COOPER DR	SHAWNEE	OK	74801	POTTAWATOMIE	USA	Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders	001	1	8/20/2024	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $655,023

Grand Total All Awards = $1,332,854

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Absentee Shawnee Tribal Health System: HEAL Initiative: Native Collective Research Effort to Enhance Wellness (N CREW) Program- Addressing Overdose, Substance Use, Mental Health, and Pain (OT2)

Award Number: OT2DA061113

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/01/2024

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 03/31/2027

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