Methodist LE Bonheur Community Outreach

Methodist LE Bonheur Community Outreach (MLCO) is a hospital-affiliated nonprofit organization based in Memphis, Tennessee, that has been registered in the federal System for Award Management (SAM.gov) since August 2005. As a subsidiary of Methodist LE Bonheur Healthcare system with 30 years of experience administering federal grants, MLCO provides community-based health and social services programs that address critical local needs in the Memphis area and surrounding rural regions of West Tennessee. The organization serves as a prime recipient of federal grant awards focused on expanding healthcare access, addressing social determinants of health, and supporting vulnerable populations through evidence-based interventions and comprehensive wraparound services.

MLCO has received multiple federal grant awards totaling millions of dollars across diverse programs and funding agencies. Recent prime grant awards include a $730,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families to implement the Family Foundations curriculum for unmarried pregnant women and their co-parents in Shelby County; Project Grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development for the Continuum of Care and Youth Homelessness Demonstration Programs; a $1.94 million construction grant from the Healthcare Systems Bureau under the Congressional Directives program; and grants from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy supporting the GrowWell Telehealth Network and Delta Region Maternal Care Coordination Program serving 19 West Tennessee counties. Additional prime awards include a Mental Health First Aid Training project from the SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services, the E-SHIFT violence intervention program for trauma-exposed youth from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, a Comprehensive High-Impact HIV Prevention program from the National Center for HIV/AIDS, the Memphis Child Housing Advocacy Initiative from the Office of Community Services, and an environmental conservation project from the Natural Resources Conservation Service. MLCO also receives numerous subawards through the Tennessee Department of Health for programs including Pediatric Mental Health Care Access, Evidence-Based Home Visiting Program Services, Maternal and Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting, and Chronic Disease Prevention Services, as well as subawards from the Tennessee Department of Human Services for TANF programming. This diverse portfolio demonstrates MLCO's capacity to implement community health promotion, disease prevention, violence intervention, housing advocacy, rural healthcare development, and family support services across urban and rural populations.