Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2019 IHS NU 0001
The American Indians into Nursing funding opportunity (HHS 2019 IHS NU 0001) is a discretionary Indian Health Service (IHS) cooperative agreement designed to strengthen the nursing workforce serving American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. Its central aim is to increase the number of AI/AN registered nurses, certified nurse midwives, and nurse practitioners by supporting programs that not only bring AI/AN students into nursing, but also help them stay in school, graduate, advance their credentials, and ultimately deliver care in AI/AN settings. Because it is structured as a cooperative agreement, recipients should expect an ongoing, collaborative relationship with IHS rather than a simple pass-through grant, with IHS likely taking an active role in guiding, monitoring, and supporting project implementation.
The program is built around a few clear workforce pathways. First, it supports recruiting and training AI/AN individuals to become baccalaureate-prepared nurses (BSN-level preparation). Second, it emphasizes academic mobility by helping associate-degree registered nurses move into BSN completion programs, recognizing that many working nurses begin with an ADN and later need a supported bridge to the bachelor’s level. Third, it targets the development of advanced practice capacity by preparing practicing registered nurses for graduate-level nursing education, which can feed into roles like nurse practitioner and certified nurse midwife. Fourth, it includes a strong retention and service component, encouraging both registered nurses and advanced practice nurses to provide or continue providing health care services in AI/AN communities, reinforcing the idea that the end goal is not only degree completion but long-term workforce stability in Tribal and IHS-related care environments.
A major feature of the opportunity is scholarship support for AI/AN students. The notice highlights that scholarship funds may be used broadly to reduce the financial barriers that often prevent completion of rigorous nursing programs. Covered costs can include tuition, books, and fees, as well as room and board and living stipends, and other education-related expenses connected to baccalaureate-level nursing or advanced practice nursing programs. In practical terms, applicants are being asked to create or expand a programmatic structure that can identify eligible AI/AN students, package financial support effectively, and pair that support with recruitment, advising, and academic progression strategies that increase completion and licensure outcomes.
The solicitation also signals what kinds of program designs are most aligned with IHS priorities. Applications are expected to give preference to AI/AN students and to offer a curriculum that includes a rural health and public health focus. That reflects the realities of many AI/AN communities, where care often happens in rural or frontier settings and where public health needs (prevention, community health, chronic disease management, maternal-child health, behavioral health integration, and population-focused approaches) are tightly linked to clinical services. Competitive proposals would therefore typically describe how coursework, clinical placements, and training experiences prepare nurses to work in rural delivery systems and to address community-level health priorities, not only hospital-based acute care.
Eligible applicants include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and other entities as allowed under the additional eligibility language in the full notice. The awarding agency is the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through the Indian Health Service, and the program sits under CFDA 93.970. The posted award ceiling is $400,000, with an expected five awards in this cycle. The opportunity was created May 16, 2019, with an original closing date of June 20, 2019, indicating this specific announcement refers to that application window, though similar IHS workforce opportunities may reappear in future years under new notices.
Overall, the grant is best understood as a workforce pipeline investment with a strong equity and community-service mission: it funds education and support systems that help AI/AN students enter nursing, move from ADN to BSN, advance into graduate nursing roles, and remain connected to providing care in AI/AN communities, with scholarships used as a core tool to remove financial obstacles and improve graduation and service outcomes.Apply for HHS 2019 IHS NU 0001
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "American Indians into Nursing" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.970.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 16, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 20, 2019. (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 $400,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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