Project Grant H79TI088923

The Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded Seed Sower, Inc. $349,646 on September 30, 2026, under the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.490) to expand peer recovery support services across a ten-county rural Appalachian region in Southern West Virginia.

Through its recovery community organization The Well, Seed Sower will operate a mobile recovery team to connect adults in recovery from substance use disorder and co-occurring mental health disorders to treatment, housing, and employment services while strengthening the peer workforce delivering recovery support. The project targets the primary catchment area of Raleigh, Fayette, and Greenbrier Counties, with secondary coverage in Summers, Nicholas, Wyoming, McDowell, Boone, Mercer, and Monroe Counties—nine of which are federally designated rural and all ten designated mental health professional shortage areas. The service population, spanning an estimated 300,000 across the full region, will include adults age 18 and older with substance use disorders frequently involving opioids and stimulants, many with co-occurring mental health conditions, trauma histories, and justice involvement.

Over the three-year period of performance ending September 29, 2029, the project will serve 315 unduplicated adults: 75 in year one, 100 in year two, and 140 in year three. Performance occurs in Beckley, West Virginia.