Special Diabetes Program for Indians Nashville Area Technical Assistance and Support Program

The summary for the Special Diabetes Program for Indians Nashville Area Technical Assistance and Support Program grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Indian Health Service, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Special Diabetes Program for Indians Nashville Area Technical Assistance and Support Program: The purpose of this program is to allow United South & Eastern Tribes (USET) to continue to provide technical assistance and Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI) program support for the SDPI grant programs in the Nashville Area. The focus of this assistance and support would be in the areas of grant management, program capacity building, budget development, and grant reporting to ensure the Nashville Area SDPI programs are meeting all of the grant requirements and deliverables in a timely manner. To do this, USET must meet the following objectives:• Provide culturally-appropriate training and technical assistance to Nashville SDPI programs using diabetes-specific tools, the Resource and Patient Management System (RPMS), and other electronic health record (EHR) systems.• Continue to refine and provide practical and innovative diabetes project tools.• Build partnerships and collaboration for the expansion of resources and services to Tribal diabetes programs.• Demonstrate and provide culturally appropriate training to Tribal programs on various Best Practices and topics, such as tobacco cessation, nutrition, physical activity, eye exams, motivational interviewing, Healthy Heart and Diabetes Prevention Program curricula, traditional foods/gardens, and motivational interviewing.