Centerstone Of Tennessee, Inc.

Centerstone of Tennessee, Inc., a Nashville-based nonprofit behavioral health organization, is a federal grant recipient delivering mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, crisis intervention, and early childhood behavioral health services across Tennessee and parts of North Carolina and Kentucky. The organization operates predominantly as a prime grant recipient (62% of recent awards), with the balance as a sub-recipient under state and federal prime grantees.

Centerstone's core federal capability footprint centers on community behavioral health service delivery. Representative prime grant work includes a $250,000 Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) award for the Crisis Center Follow-Up Improvement Initiative, expanding Centerstone's 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Center to enhance follow-up and linkages for up to 7,510 help-seekers across 20 rural and 2 urban Tennessee counties over three years (award date September 30, 2026, performance through September 29, 2029; CFDA 93.00R); an $830,000 Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention award for support services to children exposed to violence across eight counties in Tennessee and Kentucky, including mental health services, family support, and violent crime reduction strategies for juvenile offenders (award date June 1, 2026, performance through May 31, 2029; CFDA 16.818); and a cooperative agreement from SAMHSA's Administration on Children, Youth and Families to fund Centerstone's Pathways and Treatment for Healing and Hope (PATH) program addressing trauma and recovery (award date September 30, 2024, completion September 29, 2026). Additional prime grant examples include substance use disorder treatment and recovery services across Tennessee recovery courts, certified community behavioral health clinics in Tullahoma and Clarksville, early childhood mental health promotion via Project Launch serving 1,510 children and caregivers across 20 Middle Tennessee counties, and LGBTQI+ family support services delivered through Centerstone's Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic in Fayetteville, North Carolina, near Fort Liberty Army Base.

Centerstone's customer concentration is dominated by the Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which accounts for at least 59 awards (approximately half the award portfolio) across the past several years. The Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration places an additional 10 awards. The Department of Defense Education Activity holds 11 awards carrying $972 thousand in combined potential value, reflecting Centerstone's military-connected service delivery footprint. The organization serves 19 distinct federal and state customer agencies. Recent sub-award activity channels behavioral health services through the Tennessee Department of Health and Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services as prime grantees on comprehensive suicide prevention programs, maternal and early childhood home visiting services, prevention network initiatives for substance use disorder, intensive family preservation services addressing parental substance misuse, school-based behavioral health liaison programs, older adult mental health care management, and FEMA-funded crisis counseling following disasters.

Award activity has accelerated — three awards in 2022 to twenty in 2024 — though declined slightly to ten awards in 2026. Four awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The organization's stated corporate structure includes Centerstone Research Institute, Inc., a nonprofit subsidiary. The combined potential value across all 119 awards (prime and sub) stands at $972 thousand, reflecting obligations of $193.5 million, indicating substantial prior-year draw-down against multi-year grant awards. Category concentration clusters around elementary and secondary schools (10 awards) and outpatient mental health and substance abuse centers (2 awards).