Alliance Healthcare Services

Alliance Healthcare Services, doing business as Southeast Mental Health Center Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Memphis, Tennessee, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants for behavioral health, housing, and suicide prevention services, with secondary involvement as a sub-recipient on state-administered mental health grants and one incidental medical supply purchase order to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The organization's federal footprint is dominated by housing and behavioral health grant work. HUD's Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267) accounts for the bulk of awards—28 out of 48 total awards—supporting permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and supportive services for homeless individuals and families in Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee, awarded on a rolling annual basis from 2022 through 2026. SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services has funded two significant initiatives: a $400 thousand five-year Project Grant (CFDA 93.532) awarded September 2026 to implement a systemwide Zero Suicide Framework standardizing suicide risk identification, assessment, safety planning, and monitoring using evidence-based protocols across Alliance's outpatient and crisis services; and an earlier Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Advancement and Improvement Grant (awarded September 2022, concluding September 2026) that expanded crisis outpatient services for adults with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders, with particular attention to African American populations underemployed or in poverty. The organization delivered more than 13,000 crisis assessments in 2021 across its service footprint.

As a sub-recipient, Alliance contracts with the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to deliver community mental health services, peer wellness coaching, first-episode psychosis coordinated specialty care, community supportive housing, planned respite services for families with children in behavioral health crisis, and medically monitored withdrawal management for substance use disorders. A single $44.6 thousand firm fixed price purchase order from the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 (October 2023) represents outlier transactional exposure, procuring surgical screws for VA medical programs in Memphis.

Activity has grown modestly from three awards in 2022 to a peak of eight awards in both 2024 and 2025; five awards are recorded for 2026 with the most recent dated September 2026. Combined potential value across all awards is $45 thousand in the aggregate, though combined obligated dollars reach $41.8 million—a variance reflecting the source data's treatment of annual rolling Continuum of Care grants. Two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and enter recompete window. The vendor serves five distinct federal agencies with 98% of awards concentrated in HUD (28 awards) and SAMHSA (18 awards across three distinct program lines). Alliance's award posture is 67% prime (32 awards) and 33% sub-recipient (16 awards), with sub-work routed entirely through the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.