Empowering Nonprofits in California to Work on Tobacco Prevention in American Indian/Alaskan Native Communities

CTPPCompetitiveGrants@cdph.ca.gov
916.449.5500

The California Department of Public Health is offering funding to address commercial tobacco-related disparities affecting the American Indian population in California.

Program goals:

• Build capacity and skills among tribal members and staff employed by tribal governmental organizations to implement commercial tobacco use prevention and reduction interventions and provide health education services
• Mobilize and engage community residents and tribal governmental organizations to engage in commercial tobacco use prevention and cessation and support policy and system changes
• Design, support, adopt, implement, and evaluate tribal policy and system change campaigns that seek to prevent and reduce commercial tobacco use

Required grant activities:

• Demonstrate community support for the grant
• Coordinate with other local health programs, school-based programs, or voluntary health organizations
• Use and enhance existing services and resources
• Serve priority populations at high risk of starting tobacco use or developing tobacco-related illnesses
• Demonstrate an understanding of the role community norms have in influencing behavior change regarding tobacco use
• Develop and/or utilize promising or innovative approaches to diminishing tobacco use among priority populations and facilitate replication by others

Project types:

• Limit tobacco promoting influences
• Reduce exposure to secondhand smoke, tobacco smoke residue, tobacco waste, and other commercial tobacco products
• Reduce the availability of tobacco
• Promote tobacco cessation

Eligible applicants include federally recognized California tribal governments and tribal consortia.

Up to $800,000 over 51 months

Links to additional guidance, application instructions, and the online application portal are available on the program website.