Meeting: OMB/HHS Tribal Convening

[AlexBornkesselUSDS]

Description

The 0-5 Team convened with OMB and HHS Tribal leads to discuss ways to bring greater visibility to 0-5 efforts within Indian Country to further explore expansion / scaling considerations and opportunities. The 0-5 team invited the Equity team to join given the Equity team's work and attendance at NCAI.

Acceptance Criteria

• [ ] Gain learnings for how a current USDS project interacts with OMB/HHS Tribal leads and related needs, opportunities

Tasks

• [X] Participate in meeting
• [ ] Add additional tickets to capture resulting action items.

[celestemespinoza]

Notes

• We proposed a planning meeting with Ryan.
• Integrate with 0-5 work? We need to figure that out. DC folks wouldn't require travel.
• Healthy Start budget might be zeroed out - working to budget for this program to continue at least until the end of 2024
• "Can't go through maternal health without [other] [mental health] [substance abuse] services"
• Tribal folks are in the driver seat: "here are the seven different questions to ask for input?"

AI:

• [ ] Coordinate with 0-5 team about what a presence at the convening could look like, NCAI's objective
• [ ] What are tribal priorities?
• [ ] Participation spectrum within a breakout session

[celestemespinoza]

0-5 will be on site visits. Closing this ticket out.