Healthy Communities Coalition Of Lyon & Storey Counties

Healthy Communities Coalition Of Lyon & Storey Counties, doing business as Community Roots, is a Nevada-based tax-exempt nonprofit that acts as a federal grant recipient, delivering community health and substance abuse prevention programming to rural Nevada counties as a prime grantee (36% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient on federal grants flowing through state agencies and nonprofit intermediaries (64% of awards). The organization holds no federal contracts; its federal footprint is grant-funded exclusively, anchored in public health and youth prevention work across Lyon, Storey, and neighboring rural Nevada counties.

Community Roots' customer base concentrates heavily within the Department of Health and Human Services ecosystem. The top five customer agencies account for 53% of awards, split across HHS's Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Activity has grown modestly year over year — two awards in 2022 to nine in 2026 — with combined dollars obligated at $11.9 million across forty-five total awards since 2005. As a prime recipient, Community Roots recently secured a $125,000 five-year Drug-Free Communities Support Program grant (CFDA 93.276) awarded by CDC on July 1, 2026, running through June 30, 2031, to implement youth alcohol and opioid prevention initiatives across Lyon and Storey Counties using the Strategic Prevention Framework, including community awareness campaigns, parent and coalition member trainings, and positive youth engagement activities designed to achieve measurable reductions in youth first-time alcohol use and increased opioid harm perception. In the same funding cycle, Community Roots received a second prime grant award from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy's Rural Health Network Development Program (awarded July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2027, for $300,000 annually) to mobilize a rural health coalition addressing metabolic syndrome through education, engagement, and primary care coordination across Lyon and Storey Counties.

Community Roots' sub-recipient portfolio is substantial and diverse. Since 2022, the organization has received twenty-nine sub-awards flowing through Nevada state agencies (primarily the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, Nevada Department of Education, and the Nevada Health Authority) and nonprofit pass-throughs (Community Chest Inc., Nevada Volunteers, IHC Health Services Inc., and NYE Communities Coalition), spanning substance use and vaping prevention, mental health literacy and serious emotional disturbance interventions for youth, trauma-informed school services, community health worker training and deployment, AmeriCorps member placement for youth mental health and financial literacy education, school-based preventive dental services, and cardiovascular disease prevention. Representative sub-awards include a September 2026 Nevada Department of Health and Human Services sub-award for substance use, vaping, and suicide prevention programming; an August 2026 Nevada Volunteers AmeriCorps award placing twenty members across five rural Nevada counties to deliver mindfulness and behavioral health education to 800 youth; and recurring substance use prevention block grant allocations from Nevada DHHS. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete cliff exposure in that window. Community Roots operates from Dayton, Nevada, and partners with entities including High Sierra Area Health Education Center (AHEC), Community Chest, the Food Bank of Northern Nevada, and county-level rural health networks.