Arukah Institute Of Healing Inc.

Arukah Institute Of Healing Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Princeton, Illinois, operates as a federal grant recipient (37% of recent awards as prime recipient) and sub-recipient (63%) delivering behavioral health and substance-use-disorder services to rural communities. The organization does not hold prime federal contracts and does not sit on government-wide acquisition vehicles; its federal footprint is entirely grant-funded work in the health and human services space.

Arukah's customer base concentrates within the Department of Health and Human Services. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) anchors the portfolio with 19 awards across its grant programs; the Health Resources and Services Administration contributes 7 awards. These two HHS components account for 97% of recent awards. As a prime grant recipient, Arukah has secured $2 million from the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service under the Community Facilities Loans and Grants program (CFDA 10.766) for development of an essential community facility in Princeton, Illinois, with performance through June 2028. Arukah also holds prime grants from SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services for a Certified Community Behavioral Health Center (CCBHC) serving LaSalle, Bureau, Putnam, and Marshall Counties in northcentral Illinois, awarded September 2022 with completion in September 2026, and from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy for rural opioid-response and rural health care services outreach work targeting substance-use-disorder reduction and harm reduction in unhoused and low-income rural populations.

As a sub-recipient, Arukah receives the majority of its federal funding through pass-through awards from the Illinois Department of Human Services under Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services (multiple sub-grants awarded August 2023 and August 2024), and holds a sub-recipient role under a National Council For Behavioral Health mentorship and support program funded by CDC, awarded March 2025. Combined dollars obligated across all prime and sub awards total $26.5 million. Activity peaked in 2023 and 2024 with nine and ten awards respectively; only two awards have been added in 2025 and one in 2026 to date. One award faces ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months. Arukah's capability portfolio centers on low-barrier living rooms for substance-use recovery, neonatal abstinence syndrome response, stable housing and social determinants support, and integrated behavioral health service delivery in rural health professional shortage areas, with programmatic focus on Hispanic/Latinx ethnic minorities, homeless populations, LGBTQ+ individuals, and young adults experiencing poverty or opioid-use disorder.