Lewis & Clark Behavioral Health Services, Inc.

Lewis & Clark Behavioral Health Services, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit local government organization based in Yankton, South Dakota, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering behavioral health services, homelessness prevention, and rural community health infrastructure to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Health and Human Services. The organization competes as a prime grant recipient (75% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient on state-administered programs (25%), with no federal contracting footprint.

Lewis & Clark's customer concentration reflects a narrow, specialized mission. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development accounts for 14 awards (58% of the portfolio), all under the Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267), which funds permanent housing, transitional housing, rapid rehousing, and supportive services for homeless individuals and families. The Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service provides the second funding stream with 3 awards, including a $677,000 Community Facilities Loans and Grants award (CFDA 10.766) in May 2023 for constructing and improving rural health care facilities, and a $323,000 ARP Economic Development Grant for Rural Health Care Facilities awarded in June 2022. The Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration rounds out the active set with 5 awards supporting mental health and substance abuse treatment capacity in rural South Dakota.

Representative prime grant work includes consecutive Continuum of Care awards from HUD (September 2023 through August 2027, running annually at approximately $188,604 per award cycle) for homeless housing and supportive services in Yankton. On the sub-recipient side, Lewis & Clark receives pass-through funding from the University of South Dakota ($60,000 annually over three years, awarded August 2025) to fund a psychologist supporting graduate psychology education program trainees and expanding opioid-use-disorder training, and from the South Dakota Department of Social Services for peer support services and crisis response case management (awards in May and June 2025). The organization also participates as a sub-recipient in Project Aware, a school-based mental health initiative run through the South Dakota Department of Education (awards February 2022).

Award activity has remained flat to declining over the past five years (four awards in 2022 declining to one in 2026), with combined obligated dollars across all awards standing at $3.9 million. Only one award reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete pressure in that window. Over the past decade, Lewis & Clark has received more than $1.5 million in total federal grant funding focused on expanding access to mental health and substance abuse treatment in rural communities.