Program areas at NARBHA
The Narbha Institute's largest program is its provision of services, support and grants to healthcare providers who serve primarily medicaid benificiaries and indigent populations. This includes grants to such organizations to achieve health and health related social outcomes such as employment, medicaid eligibility compliance, timely mental health assessments, paitient satisfaction, housing, criminial justice coordination and culturally-competent services.
Through a disregarded entity (well north communities llc), The Narbha intitute provides permanent supported housing to approximately 40 individuals and famililes living with serious mental illness in northern Arizona. Tenants pay an income-adjusted portion of rent (which is often zero) and reside in apartments purchsed with funding from The Arizona department of health serivces. While not listed on The financial statements as an expense, The opportunity cost of these heavily descounted rents is over $244,000 per year excluding utilities, based on hud and survey data.
Effective august 27, 2018, The Narbha Institute entered into an affiliation agreement with The guidance center (tgc), a separate 501(c)(3) organization, in which Narbha became its sole member. There is a separate board to oversee managemnet of tgc. The guidance center provides inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services in The flagstaff region. Under The affiliation agreements, Narbha provides substantial financial and in-kind support and appoints a majority of its governing board.
The sustainable economic development initiative (sedi) is a related organization that files a separate form 990. Sedi provides economic development services related to The Narbha Institute's mission to promote employment as a key social determinant of health.