---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1665c"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1665c"
heading: "Comprehensive behavioral health prevention and treatment program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1665c"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Indian Health Care"
  - "Subchapter V–A — Behavioral Health Programs"
  - "Part A — General Programs"
---

# §1665c. Comprehensive behavioral health prevention and treatment program

- (a) **Establishment—**
  - (1) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17), acting through the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18), shall provide a program of comprehensive [behavioral health](/usc/25/1603.md?p=2-A), prevention, treatment, and aftercare, which may include, if feasible and appropriate, systems of care, and shall include—
    - (A) prevention, through educational intervention, in [Indian](/usc/25/1603.md?p=13) communities;
    - (B) acute detoxification, psychiatric hospitalization, residential, and intensive outpatient treatment;
    - (C) community-based [rehabilitation](/usc/25/1665.md?p=7) and aftercare;
    - (D) community education and involvement, including extensive training of health care, educational, and community-based personnel;
    - (E) specialized residential treatment programs for high-risk populations, including pregnant and postpartum women and their children; and
    - (F) diagnostic [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18).
  - (2) **Target populations—** The target population of such programs shall be members of [Indian tribes](/usc/25/1603.md?p=14). Efforts to train and educate key members of the [Indian](/usc/25/1603.md?p=13) community shall also target employees of health, education, judicial, law enforcement, legal, and social [service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) programs.
- (b) **Contract health services—**
  - (1) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17), acting through the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18), may enter into contracts with public or private providers of [behavioral health](/usc/25/1603.md?p=2-A) treatment [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) for the purpose of carrying out the program required under [subsection (a)](#a).
  - (2) **Provision of assistance—** In carrying out this subsection, the [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17) shall provide assistance to [Indian tribes](/usc/25/1603.md?p=14) and [tribal organizations](/usc/25/1603.md?p=26) to develop criteria for the certification of [behavioral health](/usc/25/1603.md?p=2-A) [service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) providers and accreditation of [service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) facilities which meet minimum standards for such [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) and facilities.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–437, title VII, § 704, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10221(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 935.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section 704 of Pub. L. 94–437 is based on section 181 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.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1665c, Pub. L. 94–437, title VII, § 704, as added Pub. L. 102–573, title VII, § 702(a), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4574, provided for Indian Health Service program of alcohol and substance abuse detoxification and rehabilitation for Indian youth, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 111–148.