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Matching Grants for Health Professions Scholarships to Indian Tribes
Published on AidPage by IDILOGIC on Jun 24, 2005
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Establishing and operating a program to provide matching grants to Indian tribes and tribal organizations to assist them in educating Indians to serve as health professionals in Indian communities. Under these grants, Indian tribes and tribal organizations shall provide scholarships to Indians pursuing health professions careers as listed in the current Federal Register Notice for the Indian Health Professions Scholarship Program. The grantees shall provide 20 percent matching of such scholarship costs. A scholarship recipient under this program is required to sign a service obligation contract with the Indian Health Service (IHS). The service obligation is the number of years equal to the number of years for which the scholarship is awarded but not less than 2 years. There are penalties for recipients because of: failure to maintain academic standing, dismissal, voluntary termination of training, failure to accept payment under the scholarship, or failure to begin or complete service. The IHS is responsible for collection of penalties.
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