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:
- Direct funding (Component 1) to tribes, villages, Urban Indian Organizations, and tribal organizations.
- Indirect funding through tribal organizations (Component 2) reaching over 90 tribes, villages, and Urban Indian Organizations.
- 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.
Component 1 recipients
- Catawba Indian Nation (Rock Hill, SC)
- Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council, Inc.* (Oklahoma City, OK)
- Cherokee Nation (Tahlequah, OK)
- Fort Peck Community College (Fort Peck Assinibione and Sioux tribes) (Poplar, MT)
- Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center, Inc.* (Milwaukee, WI)
- Native Americans for Community Action, Inc.* (Flagstaff, AZ)
- Navajo Nation (Window Rock, AZ)
- Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
- Pinoleville Pomo Nation (Ukiah, CA)
- Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska (Unalaska, AK)
- Santo Domingo Tribe-Kewa Health Outreach Program (Santo Domingo Pueblo, NM)
- Sault Sainte Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Sault Ste. Marie, MI)
- Three Affiliated Tribes (New Town, ND)
- Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake* (Salt Lake City, UT)
- Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California (Gardnerville, NV)
- Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center (Pendleton, OR)
*Urban Indian Organizations
Component 2 and 3 recipients
- Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Inc.** (Anchorage, AK)
- Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board (Albuquerque, NM)
- California Rural Indian Health Board Inc. (Roseville, CA)
- Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council (Lac Du Flambeau, WI)
- Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Health Board (Rapid City, SD)
- Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona Inc. (Phoenix, AZ)
- Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (Portland, OR)
- Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council (Billings, MT)
- Seattle Indian Health Board – UIHI (Seattle, WA)
- Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation (Oklahoma City, OK)
- 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.