PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An agency that provides health care and other services to American Indian tribal groups in Maine is getting $300,000 from the federal government for pandemic response.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is giving the money to Wabanaki Health and Wellness. The money is intended to “prepare, prevent and respond to COVID-19 in rural tribal communities in Maine,” the federal agency said in a statement.

The grant is part of $15 million in federal money that has been awarded to more than 50 tribes, tribal organizations, urban health organizations and other tribal health service providers in 20 states, the agency said.

Wabanaki Health and Wellness is headquartered in Bangor and describes itself as “a not-for-profit organization for tribally-enrolled Native Americans, serving the Penobscot, Washington and Aroostook counties of Maine.”