Welcome to the NCUIH Development page!

Title V health programs and clinics excel at leveraging their Indian Health Service dollars to obtain additional funding from other Federal, State, and local sources.  The breakdown of how Title V clinics and health programs are able to leverage funds is show below:

While Title V programs are adept at finding other sources of funding, they are only able to do so through a solid initial investment by the Indian Health Service. When that base funding is insufficient to maintain core services the competitiveness of the Urban Indian Health Programs for other private and federal grants is badly damaged. When the competitiveness of the UIHP clinics and programs is damaged it is ultimately the urban Indian patients that suffer.

NCUIH Development

NCUIH's Development Plans stem from the approved four over-arching Goals established by the NCUIH Board of Directors  in the NCUIH Strategic Plan 2005-2011

1.       Develop leadership at all levels within the urban Indian health care system.
2.       Educate policymakers for systems and policy changes that will improve
           the health condition of all urban Indians.
3.       Educate and communicate effectively.
4.       Build the National Council for Urban Indian Health (NCUIH) into a world
           class organization.

NCUIH Development Outreach Dynamic
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Our Strategic implementation has been designed to help make our organization stronger; much more efficient and better prepared to take in the challenges laying ahead to serve the health care needs of our brothers and sisters living in Urban Settings. The latter translates into an organization that is:

Direct Clients: NCUIHs direct clients are all of the Urban Indian Health Programs constituting its Membership. Members provide an array of medical services to the urban Indian and metropolitan communities (in some cases, event to the larger community)   in which they are located. Some are full primary medical providers (including behavioral and mental health as well as traditional American Indian healing) while others serve as referral centers. All of them, however, provide essential outreach and therefore a culturally relevant lifeline to their local urban Indian community. The 37 Urban Indian Health Programs are located in areas of the country to which the urban Indian population has migrated. These states/cities are: California (Los Angeles area, Bay Area, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, South Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts, New York and Maryland.

Indirect Clients (patients): NCUIH also works to represent the health needs of all the American Indian/ Alaska Natives who live in urban settings. This population constitutes the majority of all AI/ANs. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, approximately 4.1 million individuals identify as Native American alone or in combination with another race. Approximately 64%[1] of these people reside in urban areas. The median age of the urban Indian population is 30.0 years as opposed to 28.5 for the total American Indian and Alaska Native population and 35.4 for the general population. Although educational attainment levels for urban Indians are by and large comparable to the general population, it must be noted that 27.2% of the urban Indian population 25 years of age or older have not completed high school. This number is nearly 10% above that of the general population.  Urban Indians are dispersed across the country. The largest communities can be found in major cities such as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc. However, they can also be found in cities that were identified by BIA as relocation sites.

For More on development of NCUIH and the Urban Indian Health Programs please visit the Development page at the  UIH Knowledge Resource Center