Dimock Community Health Center

Dimock Community Health Center, a Boston-based minority-owned and Black American-owned nonprofit, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering primary care, behavioral health, substance use disorder treatment, and health center infrastructure development services to the Department of Health and Human Services. The organization does not hold federal contracts but receives funding primarily from HHS grant programs administered through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Dimock's grant portfolio is concentrated within the Department of Health and Human Services, which accounts for all named awards across HRSA and SAMHSA. The organization acts as prime recipient on five recent grants and as sub-recipient on four additional federal awards flowing through state and local intermediaries. As prime recipient, Dimock received project grants including the FY 2023 Bridge Access Program and Health Center Infrastructure Support from HRSA's Bureau of Primary Health Care, the FY 2023 Expanding COVID-19 Vaccination program from HRSA, and congressionally directed spending awards from the Healthcare Systems Bureau for construction and substance use disorder capacity expansion. In its role as sub-recipient, Dimock participates in federal funding routed through the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services for substance use disorder services (awarded February 2025), through the Boston Public Health Commission for a dementia care coordination program adaptation (awarded May 2024), through the Emergency Management Agency of Massachusetts for COVID-19 pandemic response (awarded November 2023), and through the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for substance use disorder services (awarded July 2022). Representative grant work includes a $1 million congressionally directed spending award under HRSA-22-134 to construct a 16-bed men's clinical stabilization services unit in the health center's Z Building, targeting 300 male patients annually with intensive substance use disorder treatment bridging inpatient detoxification and longer-term residential recovery through medication-assisted treatment, primary care, behavioral health, and specialty services. The organization's grant volume has remained steady at one to three awards per year across the past five years, with three awards (prime and sub combined) reaching completion within the next twenty-four months.