Funding Awards
May 1, 2025 – April 30, 2027
The MAT Access Points Project is funded through the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) State Opioid Response (SOR) IV grant and is administered and managed by The Center at Sierra Health Foundation.
Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians
Lake County
$297,478.00
To improve health outcomes for the tribal community along with non-tribal participants in Lake County through culturally appropriate SUD educational workshops and materials, cultural and ceremonial activities, an annual SUD educational and cultural healing summit, weekly recovery groups, and a tribal SUD Recovery Group Facilitator Coalition, to ensure inclusive and supportive SUD services.
California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project
Butte, Nevada, Sierra and Yuba Counties
$295,850.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for tribal members in Nevada, Butte, Sierra and Yuba Counties by engaging in cultural best practices and wisdom for substance use prevention and recovery utilizing a peer specialist model, coupled with referrals to culturally sensitive MOUD providers, to increase access to care and decrease overdose morbidity and mortality.
Chemehuevi Indian Tribe
San Bernardino County
$298,131.00
To better community health outcomes by increasing access to traditional resources for substance use disorder recovery and healing for approximately 150 tribal members in San Bernardino County by providing comprehensive substance use disorder, behavioral health and social and family support services, along with cultural classes including language, beading, pottery, sewing, gourd production and song.
Crossroads Recovery Center
Alpine, Inyo and Mono County
$300,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for tribal and urban Indian communities in Alpine, Inyo and Mono Counties by examining, developing, and integrating culturally rooted healing practices into substance use treatment and recovery services ensuring that Native individuals receive treatment that is culturally attuned, holistic and empowering.
Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians
Lake, Mendocino and Sonoma Counties
$300,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and decrease crisis occurrences in Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino Counties by providing traditional healing/doctoring to American Indians with unmet behavioral health needs including those with chemical dependency.
Feather River Tribal Health, Inc.
Butte, Sutter and Yuba Counties
$300,000
To bolster existing substance use services through staff training provided by White Bison for Wellbriety, and 12 Steps for Youth, along with a traditional Native healer to direct counselors on traditional medicine, and to lead culturally relevant group healing events, ensuring culturally relevant services for improved behavioral health outcomes in the Native Communities in Butte, Sutter and Yuba Counties.
Indigenous Regeneration
Riverside and San Diego Counties
$300,000.00
To advance behavioral health outcomes for individuals experiencing SUD in Riverside and San Diego Counties, by expanding SUD and Cultural Wellness Programs including strengthening in-person Wellbriety and SUD programs at Indian Health Council while increasing accessibility through virtual and online platforms.
Inner-Tribal Treatment
Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego Counties
$300,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for Native American communities in Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego Counties by strengthening the Cultural Clinical Community Defined program, improving access to treatment, reducing unmet treatment need, and decreasing opioid- and stimulant-related overdose deaths through comprehensive and culturally sensitive care.
Kee-Cha-E-Nar Nonprofit
Del Norte and Humboldt Counties
$300,000.00
To promote positive health outcomes for the Yurok community in Del Norte and Humboldt Counties by completing and expanding the Mey-wo-lee-ne’pek Model empowering service providers and community members by blending Yurok culture, values, and healing practices into substance use goal setting, case management, and referral processes.
Mathiesen Memorial Health Clinic
Tuolumne County
$300,000.00
To improve health outcomes for Native American and non-Native individuals in Tuolumne County by enhancing culturally responsive SUD prevention, treatment, and recovery services through integrating traditional healing practices and expanding culturally grounded group sessions that foster connection, education, and support.
Native American Health Center
Alameda County, Statewide
$300,000.00
To improve health system engagements for the Native American community in Alameda County and statewide by conducting a two-phased research/development substance use services project developing a Cultural Wellness Model for Indigenizing treatment plans and developing a culturally relevant SUD screening tool.
Native Dads Network
Alpine, Lake, Mendocino and Sacramento Counties
$300,000.00
To improve substance use treatment engagement, reduce stigma, and promote long-term recovery that supports Native fathers and their families in the Sacramento region by implementing a culturally rooted SUD prevention, treatment, and recovery initiative through the integration of Indigenous knowledge, traditional healing practices, and community-defined best practices.
Native Health in Native Hands
Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity Counties
$300,000.00
To increase individual and community wellness, and serve as protective and preventative measures against, as well as healing processes for, substance use disorders for the tribal communities of Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity Counties, by providing and revitalizing traditional, Native cultural values and practices.
Native Star Foundation Inc.
Tulare County
$300,000.00
To promote long-term wellness and sustainable substance use recovery for Native families and Native youth in Tulare County by providing culture-based interventions, prevention and education to address opioid and substance use disorders, strengthening community engagement, ensuring cultural identity support, and building resilience for Native families.
Quartz Valley Indian Reservation
Siskiyou County
$244,301.00
To improve Native health outcomes in Siskiyou County through the development, creation and implementation of culture-driven substances use disorder, prevention, treatment, recovery and harm reduction services, by identifying those in need and engaging the local tribal knowledge-keepers as core resources, providing a safe space for healing and family enrichment.
Sacred Life Recovery Services
Lake, Mendocino and Sonoma Counties
$300,000.00
To improve health outcomes for all tribal entities and their members, as well as unrecognized tribal members, in Lake, Mendocino and Sonoma Counties, through the offering of cultural practices, historical practices, and traditional practices identified by clients, providing space for healing from substance use disorders and historical trauma.
Sacred Path Indigenous Wellness Center
Los Angeles and Orange Counties
$300,000.00
To prevent SUD/OUD and reduce health disparities among American Indian and Alaska Natives in Los Angeles and Orange Counties through traditional healing including individual and group talking circles, Wellbriety curriculum, the planning and implementation of an annual pow wow in Orange County, along with distributing culturally relevant materials for MOUD, SUD and OUD at outreach events.
Sonoma County Indian Health Project, Inc.
Mendocino and Sonoma Counties
$275,122.00
To increase cultural protective factors related to behavioral health in the Native community in Sonoma County through the facilitation of traditional cultural workshops including the Red Road and other culturally centered substance use support programs, as well as community outreach and health fair events to provide education regarding available cultural recovery services and naloxone education.
The Friendship House Association of American Indians
San Francisco County, Statewide
$300,000.00
To bolster and expand the types of traditional healing practices available for American Indian/Alaska Native adults in SUD and OUD programs, enhance cultural awareness, competency and compassion related to the needs, purposes, and appropriateness of Native healing practices, build authentic relationships with collaborating partners, and community members, and ensure that staff are culturally responsive to the needs of AI/AN residents while also increasing the number of traditional practitioners available to our residential client population and community in San Francisco County.
Two Feathers Native American Family Services
Humboldt County
$300,000.00
To promote positive health outcomes for Native youth age 10-25 in Humboldt County through culturally informed substance use programming offered through the wellness village, by addressing substance misuse through behavioral health services, talking circles, food sovereignty, flower dance programming, leadership training, and community wide cultural training.
United American Indian Involvement, Inc.
Los Angeles County
$300,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes by expanding access to culturally responsive residential substance use treatment for American Indians/Alaska Natives living in Los Angeles County including 90-days of residential care and one month of recovery housing, cultural components of treatment such as Red Road to Wellbriety relapse prevention groups, Traditional Talking Circle, outings to local pow wows, and other cultural and traditional healing activities.