LUK Crisis Center, Inc.

LUK Crisis Center, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit headquartered in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering crisis intervention, mental health and substance use disorder treatment, violence prevention, and support services for vulnerable populations including homeless youth, pregnant and parenting teens, and trauma-affected children across Massachusetts.

The organization has built a prime federal grant footprint exceeding $3.5 million across twelve distinct customer agencies, with 79% of its awards (46 of 58 total) delivered as a prime recipient rather than as a sub-recipient. LUK's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of Health and Human Services, which accounts for substantial shares across its Administration for Children and Families (13 awards) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (14 awards combined across two internal designations in the source). The Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention represents the second major funding source with six prime awards. Together these agencies account for 72% of LUK's award count over the source period.

Recent representative prime work spans multiple program areas: a $500,000 SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services project grant awarded September 2026 to operate the Developing Resilience and Well-Being (DRAW) program, delivering trauma screening, assessment, and evidence-based intervention (Attachment, Regulation, and Competency; Parent-Child Interaction Therapy) to infants and children ages 0-12 in Worcester County through September 2031 (CFDA 93.532); a $700,000 Administration for Children and Families Transitional Living for Homeless Youth grant awarded September 2025 to operate LUK's Maternity Group Home, providing shelter and comprehensive services to pregnant and parenting youth ages 16-21 through September 2028 (CFDA 93.550); a $650,000 Department of Justice Juvenile Mentoring Program grant awarded October 2024 to implement LUK Mentoring, matching 150 youth ages 6-17 in Worcester County with volunteer mentors targeting substance misuse prevention and support (CFDA 16.726); a $972,406 Department of Justice Children Exposed to Violence cooperative agreement awarded October 2023 to implement the Personalized Approach to Healing (PATH), delivering prevention, intervention, and treatment services for youth under 18 who have experienced or witnessed domestic violence (CFDA 16.818); and a $125,000 CDC Drug-Free Communities Support Program grant awarded July 2026 supporting the Leominster Community Action Team's youth substance abuse prevention efforts through June 2031 (CFDA 93.276). LUK also operates as fiscal agent and applicant for a fourth SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Prevention project grant awarded September 2024 to support LCAT's alcohol use prevention among youth ages 12-20 in Leominster through September 2028.

LUK holds sub-recipient positions on federal grant awards from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts targeting substance use disorder services, and participated as a sub-recipient in an AmeriCorps grant through Massachusetts Service Alliance, Inc. (July 2024, $331,617 investment) to deploy eighteen Three-Quarter Time AmeriCorps members in positive youth development activities across Worcester County. The organization has served as a federal grantee continuously since 2006. Three awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete opportunity. Activity across the source period (2022–2026) has remained relatively stable, ranging from three to six awards per year, with combined dollars obligated across all fifty-eight awards totaling $50.6 million.