Chapter A1 – Article 10. Authority and Scope

Sec. A1.10.010. Authority.

The Alaska Community Health Aide Program Certification Board is established under the authority of the Act of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. § 13, popularly known as the Snyder Act) pursuant to 25 U.S.C. § 1616l (Section 119 of Pub. L. 94-437), the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, as amended, including the permanent reauthorization and amendments in Section 10221 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub. L. 111-148, which incorporated by reference, as amended by Section 10221, S. 1790 as reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in December 2009 and directives and circulars of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Indian Health Service, and Alaska Area Native Health Service.

Sec. A1.10.020. Scope.

The Alaska Community Health Aide Program Certification Board sets standards for the community health aide program and certifies individuals as behavioral health aides and practitioners, community health aides and practitioners, and dental health aides (including primary dental health aides, dental health aide hygienists, expanded function dental health aides, and dental health aide therapists and dental health aide therapist practitioners). Each of these individuals is subject to specific requirements and engages in a specific scope of practice set forth in these Standards. For historical reasons, these various health aides are often referred to generically as “community health aides”.