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CSBG Latest News & Resources
December 29, 2022
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ACF Tribal Advisory Committee Nominations
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is seeking nominations for service on its Tribal Advisory Committee (TAC). Nominations for vacancies are being solicited for TAC representatives for the Billings, California, Nashville, Navajo, and Phoenix areas. The ACF TAC's purpose is to strengthen the government-to-government relationship and provide advice on opportunities for ensuring that ACF programs benefit American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Nominations are to be requested by January 13, 2023. Further information on the nomination process is included in the Dear Tribal Leader Letter.
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HHS OIG Training for Tribal Communities
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has prepared training sessions specific to Tribal communities, including training on compliance tools and single audits. These resources are available to support grant recipients and enhance the administration of grants.
HHS OIG offers the online training series Improving Health and Well-Being in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities Through Compliance. This series includes web-based training(s), job aids, and videos for grantees and health care providers who serve AI/AN communities to learn more about compliance; fraud, waste, and abuse; and health care quality.
The training series is free and provide information and tools that you, at the option of your organization and based on its needs, can apply to help ensure your organization provides quality services to your community and complies with applicable statutes, regulations, and program requirements. Users will be able to download a certification of completion for each training completed. Please click the following links for more information.
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LIHWAP Manual for Grant Recipient Staff
The LIHWAP Manual for Grant Recipient Staff was designed to support staff who are new to working on LIHWAP, and also as a point of reference for experienced LIHWAP administrators. It compiles information and resources released by OCS since LIHWAP’s inception, including a program overview, a road map to program implementation, reporting requirements, training resources, OCS contact information and more!
This resource is readily available to share with anyone who you believe may benefit from learning more about LIHWAP operations and policies.
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News & Resources from
CSBG National Partners
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1/11: NCAP Project Management Webinar
The National Community Action Partnership (NCAP) is hosting a webinar on project management to assist local programs managing projects that are critical to their mission every day, whether it be rewriting an HR manual, opening a new community center, or overseeing a database migration. One of the main reasons formal project management exists is because there are proven practices that lead to more effective completion of projects. During this session, there will be a review project management fundamentals, practices, and tools that your organization can use to maximize efficiency and effectiveness in your project management processes.
Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Time: 2 PM ET | 1 PM CT | 12 PM MT | 11 AM PT
Where: Click here to register.
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CAPLAW Back to Basics Trainings
During the month of January, CAPLAW will present a four-part webinar series on Tuesdays on key concepts for understanding and navigating the federal CSBG Act, program regulations, and guidance for CAAs. In each session, there will be a presentation of the legal framework governing particular aspects of CSBG and answers to key questions. Join CAPLAW, and get ready to master the A–B-CSBGs!
- January 10: Tripartite Board Selection and Composition
- January 17: Uses of CSBG Funds
- January 24: Mechanics of CSBG
- January 31: Monitoring and Termination
Register below for the entire series and use the same Zoom link to join each webinar.
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NCAP Management & Leadership Conference
NCAP’s 2023 Management & Leadership Training Conference is being held February 8-10, in beautiful New Orleans, LA. This event is being hosted at the Sheraton New Orleans.
View the At-A-Glance Agenda for the 2023 Management and Leadership Training Conference!
The Management and Leadership Training Conference (MLTC) is targeted to board and staff leaders at Community Action Agencies. The MLTC will feature intensive training, structured discussions, and networking opportunities. Whether you’ve been leading and managing for years, or you’re looking forward to that promotion into management, you’ll become your best with the Management and Leadership Training Conference.
Join the waiting list now!
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NASCSP 2023 Winter Conference
NASCSP is excited to announce they will be hosting their Annual 2023 Winter Training Conference in Arlington VA, April 3-7, 2023. This event will be geared to the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) network, Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP), and host general session tracks that offer insight, strategies, tactics, timely information, and/or useful, hands-on resource materials along with relevant content and experiences that will help advance their network.
More details to come soon!
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CAPLAW National Training Conference
The 2023 CAPLAW National Training Conference will take place at the Fairmont in the beautiful and vibrant city of Austin, Texas. Join us June 27-29 to learn, be inspired, and connect with others in the community action network!
Early Bird Member Rate: $675
Fairmont Austin Hotel Conference Rate: $199/night + tax
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Additional News & Resources
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ANA Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs)
ANA has published the Fiscal Year 2023 Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) and applications for all five NOFOs are due March 31, 2023, 11:59 EST. Please refer to the funding opportunities on https://www.grants.gov/ for all official updates.
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ANA Regional Pre-Application Trainings
ANA Regional Pre-Application Trainings are now open. The trainings help you work closely with your community to frame your community-based project plan as a viable and competitive ANA grant application. The drafting process of an ANA grant is not difficult when you take a project built around the community’s wants and needs and use it as the basis of your proposal. ANA will show you exactly how to do that!
Topics for both in-person and virtual trainings will be dependent on time constraints, but both will include:
- How to understand the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
- How to align a community-based project design with the scoring criteria used in panel review
- How to prepare for the next steps in the submission process.
Please also note that this training is focused on application development and will not cover how to design a community-based project plan.
Registration: Pacific Region
When: January 17-18, 9am - 5pm
Where: Ala Moana Hotel
Registration: Western Region
Register for one training only!
Training 1
When: January 17- 20, 1pm - 3pm (EST)
Where: Virtual
Training 2
When: January 18-19, 9am - 5pm (local time)
Where: Emerald Queen Casio & Hotel Tacoma
Training 3
When: February 1-2, 9am - 5pm (local time)
Where: Hotel TBD, Denver CO
Training 4
When: January 24 & 26, 1pm - 3pm (EST) (Week 1)
January 31 & Feb 2, 1pm - 3pm (EST) (Week 2)
Where: Virtual
Registration: Eastern Region
Training 1
When: January 17- 19, 1pm - 3pm (EST)
Where: Virtual, Daily
Training 2
When: January 24-26, 9am - 5pm (local time)
Where: Cambria Hotel Mall of America, Bloomington, MN
Training 3
When: January 31 - February 2, 9am - 5pm (local time)
Where: Osage Casino Hotel Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
Training 4
When: February 7 - 9, 1pm - 4pm (EST)
Where: Virtual
Registration: Alaskan Region
Anchorage
When: January 24- 26, 9am - 5pm (Local Time)
Where: Diamond Center
Fairbanks
When: January 31-February 2, 9am - 5pm (local time)
Where: Wedgewood Resort
Training 3
When: February 7 - February 9, 9am - 12pm (local time)
Where: Virtual
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1/17: NCAP Virtual Racial Healing Circle
NCAP will be celebrating the 2023 Day of Racial Healing and hosting a Virtual Racial Healing Circle on Tuesday, January 17th.
Racial Healing Circles are designed to focus on the sharing of stories that affirm our common humanity. Racial Healing Circles have proven to be a useful tool for having difficult conversations about life experiences, perceived differences and creating opportunities for diverse groups of peoples to connect deeply.
During the Virtual Racial Healing Circle, facilitators will walk participants through the process. This will include sharing and listening to stories (including large group and smaller break-out groups).
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Time: 1:30 PM ET | 12:30 PM CT | 11:30 AM MT | 10:30 AM PT
Where: Virtual
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Updated COVID-19 Vaccines for Children
The National Indian Board of Health (NIHB) is happy to share that in early December, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of the updated (bivalent) Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to include use in children as young as six months old. NIHB encourages caregivers of those eligible to consider showing their #ActOfLove by vaccinating your child and yourself to help protect you and your community from COVID-19.
With this authorization, children ages six months through five years who received the original (monovalent) Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are now eligible to receive an updated (bivalent) Moderna booster two months after completing their primary COVID-19 vaccination series. The bivalent COVID-19 vaccines include an mRNA component corresponding to the original strain and an mRNA component corresponding to omicron variant lineages to broadly protect against COVID-19.
Continue to show your #ActOfLove in other ways, by washing your hands often, wearing masks in crowded places, and checking your distance from others. To learn more about COVID-19 vaccines, visit the National Indian Health Board (NIHB’s) COVID-19 Tribal Resource Center.
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New Maternal Health Resources
HHS launched new maternal health resources for American Indian and Alaska native communities. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) are announcing a new Hear Her campaign segment that focuses on improving maternal health outcomes for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women.
Since 2020, Hear Her campaign has sought to prevent pregnancy-related deaths by sharing potentially life-saving messages about urgent warning signs.
Unfortunately, for AI/AN women, disparities are noticeably high and are twice as likely to die of complications related to pregnancy. This new Hear Her campaign segment builds on the work that the CDC and OMH have been doing to reach tribal communities and provide health care providers and AI/AN people with critical health resources.
You can read the full press release on the OMH website or visit the CDC’s Hear Her AI/AN Resources page for additional information on the effort to improve AI/AN maternal health.
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CSBG Tribal TTA Program Resources
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The Lux CSBG Tribal TTA Program website provides comprehensive resources for CSBG Tribal grant recipients, offers instructional guides & webinars, application tools & templates, information on upcoming events, current funding opportunities, and much more.
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Upcoming Funding Opportunities
Please visit our Funding Opportunities webpage for information about the following funding opportunities in addition to other currently available and ongoing funding opportunities.
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Tribal CSBG COVID-19 Resources & Support
The CSBG Tribal TTA Program is maintaining a CSBG Tribal Network COVID-19 Latest News & Resources page on our website. All posts are also forwarded to the CSBG Tribal Network. Please subscribe to receive email notifications.
In addition, please feel free to contact the Tribal TTA Team at tribalta@luxcg.com and (301) 244-3557, or contact OCS Program Specialist, Isaac Davis at isaac.davis@acf.hhs.gov and (202) 401-5335, with any questions. We are happy to support you!
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Job Opportunities @ Lux
Tribal Training & Technical Assistance Program
As we grow and expand our training and technical assistance support for Tribes and Tribal Organizations, we are seeking candidates to join our Lux Tribal Training & Technical Assistance (TTA) Team! Please feel free to share with your colleagues.
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Lux Consulting Group, Inc. is proud to serve Native American communities as the
Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Tribal Training & Technical Assistance Program provider.
This publication was created by Lux Consulting Group, Inc.
in the performance of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Community Services, Grant Number #GS-10F-0328T/75P00119F80215. Any opinion, findings, and conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families.
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