25 U.S.C. § 1665k — Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders programs

(a) Programs.

(1) Establishment. Consistently with section 1665a of this title, the Secretary^*, acting through the Service^*, Indian tribes, and tribal organizations, is authorized to establish and operate fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder programs under this section to meet the health-status objectives specified in section 1602 of this title.

(2) Use of funds. (A) In general. Funding under this section must be used: (i) to develop and provide community and in-school training, education, and prevention programs for Indians about fetal alcohol spectrum disorders^*; (ii) to identify high-risk Indian women and high-risk women pregnant with an Indian's child and provide them behavioral-health treatment; (iii) to identify fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder-affected Indians and provide them and their families or caretakers appropriate psychological services, educational and vocational support, counseling, advocacy, and information; (iv) to develop and carry out school counseling and support programs for fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder-affected Indian children; (v) to develop prevention and intervention models that include, where appropriate, traditional health-care practitioners, cultural values, and community involvement; (vi) to develop, print, and distribute education and prevention materials about fetal alcohol spectrum disorders; (vii) in consultation with Indian tribes and tribal organizations and in conference with urban Indian^* organizations, to develop and carry out culturally sensitive assessment^* and diagnostic tools, including dysmorphology clinics and multidisciplinary fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorders clinics, for Indian communities and urban centers; and (viii) to develop and provide fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder training to professionals who serve Indians, including medical and allied-health practitioners, social-service providers, educators, law-enforcement officers, court officials, and corrections personnel in juvenile and criminal justice systems.

(B) Additional uses. In addition to the purposes in subparagraph (A), funding under this section may be used for one or more of: (i) early-childhood intervention projects, beginning at birth, to reduce the effects of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders among Indians; (ii) community-based support services for Indians and women pregnant with Indian children; and (iii) community-based housing for adult Indians with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

(3) Criteria for applications. The Secretary must establish criteria for reviewing and approving applications for funding under this section.

(b) Services. The Secretary, acting through the Service, Indian tribes, and tribal organizations, must: (1) develop and provide prevention, intervention, treatment, and aftercare services for people affected by fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in Indian communities; and (2) provide supportive services, including services meeting the special educational, vocational, school-to-work transition, and independent-living needs of adolescent and adult Indians with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

(c) Applied research projects. The Secretary, acting through the Substance Abuse^* and Mental Health Services Administration, must make grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations for applied-research projects that propose to improve understanding of ways to prevent, intervene in, treat, or provide rehabilitation^* and behavioral-health aftercare for Indians and urban Indians affected by fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

(d) Funding for urban Indian organizations. Ten percent of the money appropriated under this section must be used to make grants to urban Indian organizations funded under subchapter IV.