Updates from OAIH and around MDH
Minnesota Health Care Loan Forgiveness Programs
The Minnesota Office of Rural Health and Primary Care grants Loan Forgiveness to various health care professionals serving in high-need areas. The application is open until January 6, 2025: Minnesota Health Care Loan Forgiveness Programs - MN Dept. of Health.
Escape the Vape Video Challenge
The Escape the Vape Video Challenge, a youth vaping prevention video contest, is back for 2025. Minnesota middle and high school students are invited to create and submit a 30-second public service announcement (PSA) video to educate their peers on the dangers of e-cigarette use, also known as vaping. The video submission deadline is January 31, 2025: MN Join the Escape - 2024 Escape the Vape Challenge.
January health observances
Teen Driving Awareness Month: To raise awareness about the importance of educating teens on safe driving habits. Learn more about the risk factors that can increase the risk for crashes among teen drivers with these tips from the CDC: Eight Danger Zones | Teen Drivers | CDC, share these winter driving tips from NHTSA: Winter Weather Driving Tips: Prepare Your Vehicle | NHTSA, and access resources from the NSC: DriveitHOME™: National Safety Council.
National Birth Defects Awareness Month: To raise awareness about babies born with birth defects and improve the health of people living with these conditions. Access a toolkit with sample social media messages and graphics from the CDC: Birth Defects Awareness Month Social Media | Birth Defects | CDC
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month: To raise awareness about cervical cancer and HPV vaccination. Learn more about cervical cancer from the CDC: Cervical Cancer Basics | Cervical Cancer | CDC and the HPV vaccination: HPV Vaccination | HPV | CDC.
Human Trafficking Prevention Month: To highlight the importance of a holistic approach to preventing human trafficking, recognizing its intersection with other forms of violence and social issues. Access a toolkit from ACF that includes social media messages, graphics, and sample newsletter content: Human Trafficking Prevention Month | The Administration for Children and Families
Substance Use Disorder Treatment Month: To support people seeking help or treatment for substance use, to raise awareness and eliminate stigma surrounding treatment, and encourage those on their treatment and recovery journey. Access a toolkit from SAMHSA that includes events, social media and newsletter messages, and graphics: Substance Use Disorder Treatment Month | SAMHSA.
Updates from Across Indian Country
Call for Proposals: Minnesota Rural Health Conference
Deadline: January 13, 2025
The Minnesota Rural Health Conference seeks to support, connect, and inspire rural health professionals and leaders from across the state as they work toward the goal of building healthy communities.
Call for Proposals - 2025 Minnesota Rural Health Conference
Webinar: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge in Project Management
January 16, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. ET (1:00 p.m. CT)
Many Native American Tribes utilize oral history and teachings to transfer knowledge of their nation’s customs and operations. This method of transferring knowledge is integral in creating a framework that successfully ties Native ways of knowing with design, project management, and structure within the urban Indian health setting. Integrating Indigenous cultural knowledge systems into project management provides the necessary tools to create a seamless project design process.
Managing Health Care Operations: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge in Project Management - NCUIH
Webinar: Tackling Data: Communicating Using the Bite, Snack, Meal Approach
Date: January 30, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
As professionals engaged in public health activities, you are expected to use, understand, and explain data every day; however, most of the public health work force does not have the training to best describe, compare, and visualize quantitative data while ensuring data integrity. This online course will advance your knowledge of quantitative data, provide online resources, and provide skill building to assist you in visualizing and communicating data.
Communicating Data Trainings – Institute for Public Health Practice, Research and Policy
Webinar: Public Health Infrastructure from the Inside Out
This self-paced three-part health equity training is designed to help create a stronger, more resilient public health workforce. The series begins with a focus on individual mental fortitude; expands to the topic of building equitable and wellness-oriented organizations; then wraps up with best practices for building equitable, trusted partnerships.
Public Health Infrastructure: From the Inside Out - Self Paced | NEPHTC
Save the Date: 2025 Minnesota Tribal Traffic Safety Summit
March 24-26, 2025
This summit is designed to bring together traffic safety professionals, invested stakeholders, and community members to provide education and raise awareness of crash-related injuries and deaths affecting Minnesota's Tribal communities. The event also aims to identify strategies that will prevent serious and fatal injury crashes from occurring on Tribal lands and impacting Tribal communities.
2025 Minnesota Tribal Traffic Safety Summit | Minnesota Toward Zero Deaths
BuckleUPMN:
The Minnesota Safety Council (MSC) is excited to announce the upcoming launch of BuckleUpMN, a new resource focused on occupant protection, ensuring everyone is properly buckled up in their seat belt, car seat, or booster seat. Launching in early 2025, the website will provide valuable information for drivers, passengers, and caregivers, including legal guidelines, how-to videos, fact sheets, and child safety resources. Key updates include the latest laws on child passenger safety, along with a dedicated section for certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians (CPSTs).
BuckleUp MN: Promoting Seatbelt Safety Statewide
New Air Quality Index map to track hourly changes by site and pollutant
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has a new map tool on its air quality forecast website. You can track hourly changes by site and pollutant, see daily maximum Air Quality Index reports, and keep updated about the air quality in your area. Be air aware!
Current air quality conditions | Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Article: Addressing Syphilis within American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: Using Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services for Healthier Outcomes
While many populations have been affected by syphilis, AI/AN communities had the largest increase in primary and secondary syphilis of all racial and ethnic groups between 2019 and 2023. The latest post on the OMH Blog for Health Equity looks at some of the ways the HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) is working to eliminate health disparities among AI/AN communities by identifying cultural and linguistic factors that influence the healthcare experiences and health outcomes of AI/AN populations.
Addressing Syphilis within American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: Using Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services for Healthier Outcomes | Office of Minority Health
Recorded Webinar Series: Conversations with Experts Addressing the Social Determinants of Health
This webinar series from PHI’s Build Healthy Places Network features conversations with national experts from community development, healthcare, public health and finance on topics related to addressing the social determinants of health.
Network Commons: Conversations with Experts Addressing the Social Determinants of Health - Public Health Institute
New Report: Understanding Urban Indian Substance Misuse and Overdose Prevention: A Mixed-Methods Analysis
Between 2023-2024, the National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH) conducted an Urban American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Overdose Needs Assessment. This needs assessment aimed to understand and analyze the impacts of substance misuse and opioid overdoses on Urban Indian Organizations (UIOs) and the urban AI/AN populations that they serve. Learn more about NCUIH’s findings and additional insights into overdose prevention.
Overdose Prevention Resource Hub - NCUIH
New Resource: The Star Collection Books
The Star Collection books were written and illustrated by Marisa Erven (Coquille Tribe of Oregon) in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. This two-book collection is intended for kindergarten through third grade AI/AN readers. Each book has an educator guide to help with classroom, community center, or family discussions, an activity that a child can complete, and selected words translated into Cherokee, Lakota, Navajo, Ojibwe, and Yupik.
The Star Collection | Injury Prevention in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities | CDC
Recorded Webinar: Building Healthful Indigenous Futures: Indigenous Science, Ways of Knowing, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty
This webinar was hosted by NIH Tribal Health Research Office. Dr. Gregory Cajete, Ph.D., (Tewa, Santa Clara Pueblo) provides a presentation and discussion on “Building Healthful Indigenous Futures: Indigenous Science, Ways of Knowing, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty.” Dr. Cajete brings a profound understanding of Indigenous knowledge and science and a commitment to respecting the unique perspectives of Native communities. This discussion sheds light on Indigenous Knowledges and data sovereignty, weaving together themes of ethics, culture, and the role of Indigenous science and data in Tribal health research.
NIH VideoCast - Native American Heritage Month Event: “Building Healthful Indigenous Futures: Indigenous Science, Ways of Knowing, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty”
Recorded Webinar: ’Zines: A Collaborative, Participatory Method for Sharing Community Members’ Lived Experiences with Health and Diabetes
Zines are a visual storytelling device focused on telling the stories of those often unheard. Presenters Kandyce Garcia, MS, CHES (Kewa Pueblo) and Paul Ryland, MSWc, share their processes for implementing a ‘zine design and dissemination project about community members’ experiences of diabetes within their communities. This webinar was hosted by Centers for American Indian & Alaska Native Health at the Colorado School of Public Health.
CAIANDTR Webinars | Centers for American Indian & Alaska Native Health | Colorado School of Public Health
Resource: RSV Immunization Toolkit for American Indian and Alaska Native Populations
This new Toolkit for Tribal Home Visitors from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), the Indian Health Service (IHS), and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
References and Resources | RSV | CDC
Recorded Webinar: Building Trust, Enhancing Care, Cultural Humility in Health Care
In this webinar, NCUIH speakers aim to equip health care professionals with the knowledge and sensitivity to bridge practice gaps, ensuring culturally sensitive and respectful care delivery to diverse patient populations.
Building Trust, Enhancing Care: Cultural Humility in Health Care | Health Inequities | Urban Indian Health Care Education from NCUIH | AMA Ed Hub
Continuing Education Course: Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) Compassion Fatigue Training
This training explores the significant effects on those who aid individuals coping with stress, trauma, or pain. Specifically, this training will illuminate the toll experienced by caregivers, including healthcare professionals and public health workers, with a focus on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) Compassion Fatigue Training | Professional Well-being | Urban Indian Health Care Education from NCUIH | AMA Ed Hub
Resource: The Public Health Communicators Guide to Misinformation
Building continued trust in public health requires communicators to learn how to identify false narratives and respond with clarity, accurate information, and accessible language. This guide, developed by the Public Health Communications Collaborative provides foundational insights into the current misinformation landscape and an overview of tools for assessing risk and determining responses.
The Public Health Communicators Guide to Misinformation - Public Health Communications Collaborative (PHCC) (publichealthcollaborative.org)
Resource: Indicators of Healthy Aging: A Guide to Explore Healthy Aging Data through Community Health Improvement
To develop and strengthen age-friendly public health systems, a more comprehensive set of healthy aging indicators is needed to help health departments and community partners at the local, state, tribal, and territorial levels measure and identify population-level health disparities and inequities. This guide also serves as a resource for health departments seeking to attain Age-Friendly Public Health Systems (AFPHS) recognition.
Indicators of Healthy Aging: A Guide to Explore Healthy Aging Data through Community Health Improvement - TFAH
Resource: Food is Medicine
This resource from HHS helps you prevent, manage, and treat diet-related disease states and promote health and wellbeing through food and nutrition.
Food Is Medicine | health.gov
New Resource: Healthcare Careers MN
HealthcareCareersMN.org is designed to support the healthcare career aspirations of students from across Minnesota. This site includes information about pathway programs and other resources that provide mentorship, training, exposure, and inspiration to students interested in healthcare careers.
Home :: Healthcare Careers MN
Funding Opportunities
Community Grant Reviewers needed at MDH
MDH regularly seeks input from the communities most impacted by grant programs as a part of the review process. Having community input is essential therefore the OAIH is collecting a list of people with experience in American Indian communities. If you are interested, please email Health.OAIH@state.mn.us to share your areas of interest and your resume. We will reach out as RFPs are posted.
Tribal Management Grants
Deadline: January 13, 2025
The Tribal Management Grant Program is designed to enhance and develop health management infrastructure and assist Tribes and Tribal organizations in assuming all or part of existing IHS programs, functions, services, and activities through agreements under the Indian Self Determination and Education Assistance Act. It also aims to assist Tribes and Tribal organizations with existing agreements to further develop and improve their management capability.
Tribal Management Grants Available for Tribes and Tribal Organizations | 2024 Announcements
Good Food Access Program (GFAP) Equipment and Physical Improvement Grant
Deadline: January 16, 2025
The Good Food Access Program (GFAP) Equipment and Physical Improvement Grant increases the availability of and access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate foods (including fruits and vegetables) for underserved communities in low- and moderate-income areas. Grants help grocery stores and small food retailers make physical improvements and purchase equipment to stimulate sales of such foods.
Good Food Access Program (GFAP) Equipment and Physical Improvement Grant | Minnesota Department of Agriculture
Homework Starts with Home
Deadline: January 17, 2025
Homework Starts with Home (HSWH) is a grant program focused on addressing homelessness and housing instability among students and their families. Up to $5.5 million in funding is available to support collaborative efforts between schools, housing organizations, and local governments to identify, engage, and stabilize students and their families who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness.
Homework Starts with Home
Technology Development to Reduce Health Disparities (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Deadline: January 21, 2025
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages grant applications to develop and translate medical technologies aimed at reducing disparities in healthcare access and health outcomes. Appropriate medical technologies should be effective, affordable, culturally acceptable, and deliverable to those who need them.
RFA-EB-21-001: Technology Development to Reduce Health Disparities (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Centers of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Education, Science, and Practice
Deadline: January 27, 2025
This opportunity is from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The purpose of the Centers of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Education, Science, and Practice (CoE) program is to strengthen and expand the MCH workforce by training graduate and post-graduate public health students in MCH and to advance MCH science, research, practice, and policy through a well-trained MCH public health workforce.
Search Results Detail | Grants.gov
Tribal Institutional Review Board Establishment and Enhancement (TIRBEE)
Deadline: January 27, 2025.
The purpose of the Tribal Institutional Review Board Establishment and Enhancement (TIRBEE) award is to support federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Tribes, Tribal colleges and universities, Tribal health programs, or Tribal organizations (collectively, eligible Tribal entities) to establish Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) or enhance the capacity of existing Tribal IRBs.
PAR-24-260: Tribal Institutional Review Board Establishment and Enhancement (TIRBEE) (R24 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (nih.gov)
Sage Grants
Deadline: January 31, 2025
In the 2024- 2025 cycle, the Urban Indian Health Institute is awarding at least 10 grants up to $61,670 to urban Native health and human service organizations, and urban Indian organizations with programming focused on Indigenous approaches to chronic disease.
Sage Grants – Urban Indian Health Institute
Pediatric Primary Care Mental Health Training Grant
Deadline: February 7, 2025
The Pediatric Primary Care Mental Health Training Grant Program awards grants for the development of new or expansion of existing pediatric mental health training programs located in outpatient primary care clinics. The training programs are designed to increase confidence, skills, and awareness of mental health resources among pediatric primary care providers caring for the mental health needs of pediatric patients.
ORHPC Grants and Funding - MN Dept. of Health
Circles of Care for American Indian/Alaska Natives
Estimated Post Date: February 15, 2025
The purpose of this program from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is to provide tribes and tribal organizations with the tools and resources to plan and design a family-driven, community-based, and culturally and linguistically competent system of care.
Search Results Detail | Grants.gov
Mental Health Cultural Community Continuing Education (MHCCCE) Grant Program
Deadline: April 1, 2025
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), Office of Rural Health and Primary Care (ORHPC), is soliciting grant proposals from mental health professionals from communities of color or underrepresented communities to become qualified to serve as supervisors for mental health practitioners pursuing licensure.
ORHPC Grants and Funding - MN Dept. of Health
Work in American Indian Communities
You can make a difference working in Tribal health!
When we have positions to share, they will be posted here. If you have postings that you would like highlighted in our newsletter, please email OAIH (Health.OAIH@state.mn.us) by the end of the month.
Lower Sioux Community is looking to hire a Director of Health Services. The Director of Health Services is responsible for the management, direction, and coordination of all health operations and related activities for the purpose of attaining the goals and objectives as set forth by the Lower Sioux Indian Community Council.
This position is in the traditional healing department at the Native American Community Clinic (NACC) in south Minneapolis. Traditional Healing Referral Coordinator: Career Center | Recruitment
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community is hiring for a Manager of Clinical Operations at the Healing Center: Manager of Clinical Operations - Healing Center.
We are hiring at MDH in the OAIH! Please consider applying and/or sharing this position with qualified people that you know: American Indian Research Scientist (Job ID: 82595).
Careers in Minnesota State Government / Careers in the State of Minnesota (mn.gov).
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