Berks Counseling Center Inc.

Berks Counseling Center Inc., a Reading, Pennsylvania-based nonprofit behavioral health and social services provider, operates as a federal grant recipient focused on housing assistance, mental health treatment, and substance use disorder services. The organization competes exclusively under grant mechanisms rather than federal contracts, receiving 99% of its recent awards as a prime grant recipient with minimal sub-award activity.

Berks Counseling Center delivers permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, rental assistance, case management, and evidence-based mental health and substance abuse treatment to homeless individuals, families, and vulnerable populations in Berks County. The organization has maintained a sustained federal grant footprint since October 2001, with multiple concurrent awards across housing and behavioral health programs. Recent named awards include three Continuum of Care Program grants from HUD totaling $765,216 (awarded August and September 2026 under CFDA 14.267), a $218,610 COC award from HUD (November 2024), and a multi-year $231,000 project grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Mental Health Services (awarded September 2023, running through September 2027) to expand access to evidence-based screening and treatment while reducing health disparities among individuals with mental health conditions and co-occurring substance use disorders.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development dominates the customer base, anchoring 115 of the organization's 132 total recent awards. Secondary federal relationships include the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (4 awards) and the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons (4 awards across the Northeast Regional Office and Bureau of Prisons). The organization sits on two Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the Bureau of Prisons—IDC DJB200850 and IDC J200C561—placing five and four task orders respectively, though these represent a modest portion of overall federal funding; HUD's Continuum of Care Program accounts for the overwhelming majority of the organization's grant revenue.

Activity has declined modestly in the past two years, with awards dropping from nine annually in 2022 and 2023 to six in 2024 and five in 2025. Six awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing the primary recompete exposure window. The organization's primary NAICS classification centers on outpatient mental health and substance abuse centers, with social rehabilitation services as the dominant PSC category. As a tax-exempt nonprofit operating entirely in the grant space with no federal contract vehicles, Berks Counseling Center holds no SBA set-aside designations and no interest to contractors evaluating prime contract competition or teaming opportunities on the contracting side; its relevance is confined to the federal grant funding landscape, particularly in community health and homelessness prevention.