Collaborative For Educational Services, Inc.

Collaborative For Educational Services, Inc. (operating as Collaborative For Educational Service) is a local government-owned entity based in Northampton, Massachusetts, that serves as a federal grant recipient focused on youth mental health, substance abuse prevention, and community health programming in Western Massachusetts. The organization operates primarily as a sub-recipient (71% of recent awards) under grants flowing from state agencies including the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, with 29% of awards as prime grant recipients directly from federal agencies.

The vendor's federal grant footprint concentrates in education and public health programming. As a prime recipient, Collaborative For Educational Services holds three active federal grants: a Youth Mental Health First Aid Project funded by SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services (award date Sep 30, 2022, completion Sep 29, 2027) that trains school staff, service providers, and military family parents in evidence-based mental health first aid across five Western Massachusetts schools and will reach over 1,490 participants; a Parent and Caregiver Engagement (PACE) Project funded by SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (award date Sep 30, 2026, completion Sep 29, 2030) targeting youth ages 12-20 in rural Hampshire County to prevent alcohol use through parent and caregiver engagement; and a Produce for Health in Hampshire County's Food Desert Communities grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition (award date Sep 15, 2022, completion Sep 14, 2026) providing produce prescriptions to 200 low-income clients with chronic health conditions across rural food deserts.

Customer concentration is dominated by education and substance abuse prevention. The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 26 awards (73% coverage across the top five customers), driven almost entirely by sub-awards routed through the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education under the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program, State Grant—B (611), and Career and Technical Education—Basic Grants to States. SAMHSA's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration follows with eight awards, and the Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and Office of Career Technical and Adult Education round out the active set. Sub-award activity has accelerated recently—one award in 2023, eleven in 2024, and twenty-one in 2025—with only one award reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, indicating stable recompete exposure in that window.

The vendor's sub-award posture reflects its regional role within Massachusetts' education and health systems. Sub-recipients include the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (most frequent prime grantee), the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration-funded substance use disorder services and evaluation awards), and The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (standalone substance use disorder service awards). Combined dollars obligated across all prime and sub awards total $19.6 million across 63 federal awards spanning from 2004 to September 2026, positioning the vendor as a mid-tier regional sub-recipient network rather than a federal prime contractor vehicle.