---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1660f"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1660f"
heading: "Community Health Representatives"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1660f"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Indian Health Care"
  - "Subchapter IV — Health Services for Urban Indians"
---

# §1660f. Community Health Representatives


The [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17), acting through the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18), may enter into contracts with, and make grants to, [urban Indian organizations](/usc/25/1603.md?p=29) for the employment of [Indians](/usc/25/1603.md?p=13) trained as health [service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) providers through the Community Health Representative Program under [section 1616 of this title](/usc/25/1616.md) in the provision of health care, [health promotion](/usc/25/1603.md?p=11), and [disease prevention](/usc/25/1603.md?p=7-A) [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) to [urban Indians](/usc/25/1603.md?p=28).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–437, title V, § 516, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10221(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 935.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section 516 of Pub. L. 94–437 is based on section 165 of title I of S. 1790, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, as reported by the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate in Dec. 2009, which was enacted into law by section 10221(a) of Pub. L. 111–148.