Health Professions Recruitment Program for Indians

(1) To identify American Indians and Alaska Natives with a potential for education or training in the health professions, and to encourage and assist them to enroll in health or allied health professional schools; (2) to increase the number of nurses, nurse midwives, nurse practitioners and nurse anesthetists who deliver health care services to American Indians and Alaska Natives; (3) to place health professional residents for short-term assignments at Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities as a recruitment aid; and (4) to remove the multiple barriers to their entrance into IHS and private practice among Indians.

Public or private nonprofit health or educational entities or Indian tribes or tribal organizations as specifically provided in legislative authority.

For Indians into Psychology, public or private nonprofit colleges and universities that offer a Ph.D. in clinical programs accredited by the American Psychological Association will be eligible to apply for a grant under this program. However, only one grant will be awarded and funded to a college or university per funding cycle.

For Indians into Nursing, schools of nursing providing nursing education and conferring degrees are eligible for this award:
A. Accredited Public or Private schools of nursing,
B. Accredited Tribally controlled community colleges and Tribally controlled postsecondary vocational institutions (as defined in section 390(2) of the Tribally Controlled Vocational Institutions Support Act of 1990 (20 U.S.C. 2397h(2)), or
C. Nurse midwife programs and nurse practitioner programs that are provided by any public or private institution.

Preference is given to applicants in the following order of priority: (1) Indian tribes; (2) tribal organizations; (3) urban Indian organizations and other Indian health organizations; or (4) other public or nonprofit health or educational entities.

The application package may be found in Grants.gov. You may not e-mail an electronic copy of a grant application to us. This program is subject to the provisions of 45 CFR part 75.

For Indians into Psychology, the grant applicant must submit official documentation indicating a Tribe’s cooperation with and support of the program within the schools on its reservation and its willingness to have a Tribal representative serving on the program advisory board. Documentation must be in the form prescribed by the Tribe’s governing body, i.e., letter of support or Tribal resolution. Documentation must be submitted from every Tribe involved in the grant program. If application budgets exceed the stated dollar amount that is outlined within this announcement it will not be considered for funding.

Grants are made directly by the Indian Health Service to applicant agency, based on results of competitive review process.

Within 90 days of IHS deadline.