Tribal Injury Prevention Cooperative Agreement Program | HHS 2026 IHS IPP 0001

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The Tribal Injury Prevention Cooperative Agreement Program is a discretionary funding opportunity from the Indian Health Service (IHS) Injury Prevention Program (IPP) designed to help American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities strengthen their ability to prevent injuries and violence. The overall purpose is to reduce the long-standing disparity in injury rates affecting AI/AN people by investing in tribal capacity, staffing, infrastructure, and locally driven prevention strategies. Awards are made as cooperative agreements, which generally means IHS expects to be involved beyond simple pass-through funding (for example, through collaboration, technical assistance, or joint planning and oversight consistent with a cooperative agreement structure).

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is split into two separate competitive tracks, and applicants must choose only one. The chosen track must be clearly identified in the project summary, since applications are not evaluated for both parts. Part I focuses on building sustained community capacity by funding a full-time injury prevention coordinator who will implement an injury prevention program within the tribe or service area. A key eligibility condition for Part I is a minimum IHS user population of 2,500. IHS explains this requirement as a way to ensure limited funds reach a larger number of AI/AN people and to improve the likelihood of generating reliable, measurable outcomes. Because many serious injury events (such as fatal or severe motor vehicle crashes) occur relatively infrequently in smaller communities, a larger population base improves the ability to detect meaningful, statistically significant changes over time.

Part II supports injury prevention work in a different way, by funding injury prevention projects or innovative strategies rather than primarily funding a coordinator position tied to a population threshold. This track is geared toward developing or testing interventions, approaches, or projects that can address injury and violence prevention needs in creative or targeted ways, potentially including pilots, community-based strategies, or other locally designed solutions aligned with injury prevention priorities.

Eligible applicants include federally recognized Indian Tribes, Tribal organizations, and Urban Indian Organizations. Federally recognized Tribes are defined under 25 U.S.C. 1603(14) and include tribes, bands, nations, Alaska Native villages or groups, and certain Alaska Native regional or village corporations recognized as eligible for federal Indian programs and services. Tribal organizations are defined under 25 U.S.C. 1603(26) and the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304(l)) and generally must be controlled, sanctioned, chartered, or democratically elected by the community they serve, with maximum Indian participation. If a Tribal organization proposes to serve multiple Tribes, approvals from each Tribe are required, and the application must include letters of support or Tribal Resolutions from the Tribe or Tribes to be served. Urban Indian Organizations, defined under 25 U.S.C. 1603(29), must be nonprofit corporate bodies located in urban centers, governed by an urban Indian controlled board, and structured to allow broad participation from Indian groups and individuals; these applicants must provide proof of nonprofit status.

Key administrative details provided in the source data include the funding opportunity number HHS-2026-IHS-IPP-0001 and the CFDA (Assistance Listing) number 93.284. The posted award ceiling is $150,000, and IHS anticipates making about 30 awards. The original application deadline listed is November 13, 2025, and the opportunity was created on July 21, 2025. Overall, the program is positioned as a capacity-building and implementation-focused investment that supports tribes and tribal entities in designing, staffing, and carrying out injury and violence prevention efforts tailored to their communities, with two distinct pathways depending on whether the applicant is primarily building a staffed program (Part I) or developing project-based and innovative strategies (Part II).

• The Indian Health Service in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Tribal Injury Prevention Cooperative Agreement Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.284.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-07-21.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-11-13. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $150,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 30 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Others.

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