GHWIC Recipients and Funding

Key points

  • Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country (GHWIC) is CDC's largest investment to improve American Indian and Alaska Native health.
  • For over 10 years, GHWIC has supported a network of tribal partners to promote health and prevent chronic diseases throughout Native communities in the United States.
  • GHWIC currently provides $19 million a year in funding to 27 recipients.

Overview

In its second cycle of funding, GHWIC operates under a 5-year cooperative agreement (2019 to 2023), with about $19 million in funding each year.

GHWIC reaches over 115 federally recognized tribes and Urban Indian Organizations, either through:

  1. Direct funding (Component 1) to tribes, villages, Urban Indian Organizations, and tribal organizations.
  2. Indirect funding through tribal organizations (Component 2) reaching over 90 tribes, villages, and Urban Indian Organizations.
  3. An umbrella tribal organization, which serves as the GHWIC coordinating center (Component 3).

Funding components

CDC funds 27 GHWIC recipients across three components.

Component 1

Component 1 directly funds 13 tribes and 3 Urban Indian Organizations to implement chronic disease prevention strategies in their communities.

The strategies are chosen by the communities and include:

  • Reducing commercial tobacco use and exposure.
  • Improving nutrition and physical activity.
  • Increasing health literacy.
  • Improving team-based health care.
  • Connecting community programs with clinical services.

Component 2

Component 2 indirectly funds tribes to implement chronic disease prevention strategies in their communities through 11 tribal organizations.

These tribal organizations:

  • Lead chronic disease prevention efforts.
  • Provide funding to over 90 additional tribes, villages, and Urban Indian Organizations in their Indian Health Service Areas and Urban Areas.
  • Offer technical support in chronic disease prevention to the tribes they support in their area.

Component 3

Component 3 funds one tribal organization to serve as a program-wide coordinating center supporting peer learning, evaluation, and communication across all funded recipients.

The GHWIC coordinating center:

  • Oversees projects.
  • Manages logistics.
  • Provides communication and evaluation support.
  • Supports communities of practice so recipients can share experiences and learn from each other.

GHWIC recipients, by component

GHWIC recipients are listed below for the 2019–2023 cycle.

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US map showing locations of GHWIC funding recipients for components 1, 2, and 3.
Locations of GHWIC funding recipients from all three components.

Component 1 recipients

  1. Catawba Indian Nation (Rock Hill, SC)
  2. Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council, Inc.* (Oklahoma City, OK)
  3. Cherokee Nation (Tahlequah, OK)
  4. Fort Peck Community College (Fort Peck Assinibione and Sioux tribes) (Poplar, MT)
  5. Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center, Inc.* (Milwaukee, WI)
  6. Native Americans for Community Action, Inc.* (Flagstaff, AZ)
  7. Navajo Nation (Window Rock, AZ)
  8. Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
  9. Pinoleville Pomo Nation (Ukiah, CA)
  10. Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska (Unalaska, AK)
  11. Santo Domingo Tribe-Kewa Health Outreach Program (Santo Domingo Pueblo, NM)
  12. Sault Sainte Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Sault Ste. Marie, MI)
  13. Three Affiliated Tribes (New Town, ND)
  14. Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake* (Salt Lake City, UT)
  15. Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California (Gardnerville, NV)
  16. Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center (Pendleton, OR)

*Urban Indian Organizations

Component 2 and 3 recipients

  1. Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Inc.** (Anchorage, AK)
  2. Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board (Albuquerque, NM)
  3. California Rural Indian Health Board Inc. (Roseville, CA)
  4. Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council (Lac Du Flambeau, WI)
  5. Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Health Board (Rapid City, SD)
  6. Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona Inc. (Phoenix, AZ)
  7. Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (Portland, OR)
  8. Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council (Billings, MT)
  9. Seattle Indian Health Board – UIHI (Seattle, WA)
  10. Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation (Oklahoma City, OK)
  11. United South and Eastern Tribes Inc. (Nashville, TN)

**ANTHC is a Component 2 recipient and is funded to serve as the Coordinating Center for GHWIC (Component 3 award). The Coordinating Center for GHWIC funding is $800,000.

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