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              2023 AmeriCorps Seniors Native Nations and Indigenous Elders Senior Demonstration Program Grant Award
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                AmeriCorps awarded **seven grants** totaling more than **$4.7 million** in funding to tribal governments and other tribal entities.

**Cherokee County Health Services Council**
	Funds awarded: $750,000
	The Cherokee County Health Services Council proposes to have 25 AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers who promote positive mental, physical and social health and wellness programs by participating, teaching and mentoring others in Cherokee County, Okla. The primary focus area of this project is to provide social support, information and education to address mental and physical health needs to all. At the end of the grant, AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers will be responsible for their impact on poverty by promotion and support of health and wellness programs in the community that contributed to an improvement in county health measures and statistics.
	**Chippewa Cree Tribe**
	Funds awarded: $650,000
	The Chippewa Cree Tribal Elders Advocacy Group proposes to have 12 AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers who will teach cultural language, history customs and practices in the Rocky Boy Community and Schools. The primary focus areas of this project are: 1) Preserving and teaching Native and Indigenous languages and cultural practices; and 2) Helping native and indigenous communities respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. At the end of the three-year grant, AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers will be responsible for addressing substance abuse and truancy, thereby increasing resiliency, and increase the number of youth who speak fluent Cree and understand Cree culture, history customs and practices.
	**Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc.**
	Funds awarded: $900,000
	Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council Inc. proposes to have 23 unduplicated AmeriCorps Senior volunteers who will promote behavioral changes with elders and youth to increase health and well-being. The primary focus area of this project is healthy futures for elders and youth. At the end of the three-year grant, AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers will be responsible for 100 youth and 13 elders with improved health well-being outcomes through promotion of behavioral changes by participation in cultural wellness activities.
	
	**Phoenix Indian Center**
	Funds awarded: $334,179
	The Phoenix Indian Center proposes to have 10 AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers who will provide mentorship and cultural education to local urban American Indian youth in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. The primary focus area of this project is to promote the preservation and teaching of native and indigenous cultural practices through mentorship programming. At the end of the three-year grant, AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers will be responsible for providing mentorship, cultural connection, and education to 100 American Indian youth in the greater Phoenix metro area.
	**Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation**
	Funds awarded: $665,787
	The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation proposes to have 10 AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers who will serve through tutoring and mentoring youth and other tribal seniors in the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Reservation. The primary focus area of this project is education. At the end of the three-year grant, AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers will be responsible for supporting preservation and teaching of Potawatomi language and cultural practices at three volunteer sites.
	
	**Rural Alaska Community Action Program, Inc.**
	Funds awarded: $1,000,000
	Rural Alaska Community Action Program, Inc. proposes to have 60 AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers who will uplift cultural traditions and native languages amongst indigenous Alaskans in the state of Alaska. The primary focus area of this project is education, with a secondary focus on healthy futures. At the end of the three-year grant, AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers will be responsible for 405 Alaska Native youth demonstrating improved academic engagement and social emotional skills, 90 Alaska Native youth demonstrating gains in school readiness, and 10 Indigenous elders reporting increased social support or improved capacity for independence.
	**Tolowa Dee-ni Nation**
	Funds awarded: $460,567
	The Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation proposes to have 10 AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers who will serve as the Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation Elder Workforce Development Team in Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation Service Area in Smith River, Calif., and the greater surrounding area. The primary focus area of this project is economic opportunity. At the end of the three-year grant, AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers will be responsible for development and oversight of the new Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation WORKS for Seven Generations Workforce Development program. Back to main content Sign up to hear about our latest news, events, and opportunities.
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