Dupage County Health Department

Dupage County Health Department, a U.S. local government entity headquartered in Wheaton, Illinois, receives federal grants as a prime recipient and sub-recipient across behavioral health, substance abuse prevention, public health emergency preparedness, and community development programs. The department does not hold federal contracts and does not compete under set-asides; all engagement flows through federal and state grant programs administered by the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and pass-through state agencies in Illinois.

The department's federal footprint is heavily weighted toward sub-grant activity—133 of 201 total awards (66%) arrive as sub-awards flowing from state grantees, primarily the Illinois Department of Human Services and the Illinois Department of Public Health, with federal grantor agencies providing the remaining 68 prime awards (34%). Combined dollars obligated across all recent awards total $47.2 million, with activity concentrated in the past three years: 2023 saw 46 awards, 2024 peaked at 63 awards, and 2025–2026 carried 28 awards combined. As a prime recipient, Dupage County Health Department holds a $250,000 SAMHSA 988 and Behavioral Health Crisis Services grant (CFDA 93.00R) awarded September 30, 2026, running through September 29, 2029, to expand follow-up services for 988 crisis line contacts across DuPage, Grundy, and McHenry Counties, adding crisis supervision and peer support capacity with real-time Power BI dashboards. A second prime award, a SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework–Partnerships for Success project grant (CFDA not specified) dated September 30, 2023 with completion September 29, 2028, targets marijuana and alcohol misuse prevention among youth ages 11–18 and adults 18–39 across DuPage County through coalition-building and stigma-reduction campaigns for LGBTQ+ communities. A third prime award, a planning-phase grant from SAMHSA for a Central Receiving Center behavioral health crisis hub, was awarded September 30, 2023 with completion April 30, 2025, to fund project staff, strategic planning consultants, communications, and recruitment for a single-entry crisis facility. The department also received a Consumer Product Safety Commission Pool Safely grant program award dated September 13, 2023, running through November 30, 2025.

Customer concentration in the top five funding sources covers 85% of awards, led overwhelmingly by SAMHSA (77 + 26 + 7 = 110 awards combined across its multiple sub-lines), followed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (43 awards), the HHS Administration for Children and Families (18 awards), and subordinate federal agencies. Sub-award activity flows predominantly from the Illinois Department of Human Services (Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services, Block Grants for Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse, and Social Services Block Grants) and the Illinois Department of Public Health (Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Crisis Response Infrastructure, respiratory disease surveillance, and oral health programming). The department operates as a sub-recipient on these pass-through structures rather than competing independently for federal procurements.

Recompete cliff exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal—one award with completion inside that window. The department does not sit on federal contract vehicles (GWACs, IDIQs, BPAs) and does not engage as a prime or sub on federal contracts; its entire footprint is grant-based, centered on community behavioral health infrastructure, crisis response capacity, substance abuse prevention, public health workforce development, and emergency medical countermeasure distribution readiness across DuPage County and surrounding counties in Illinois.