Lighthouse Recovery Community Center Inc.

Lighthouse Recovery Community Center Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering peer recovery support services and recovery community infrastructure to adults affected by substance use disorders. The organization has secured three federal awards totaling $2.3 million obligated value across a three-year period (2023–2025), all routed through a single customer agency: the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Lighthouse's primary federal footprint is a SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Treatment project grant awarded June 30, 2023, with ultimate completion scheduled for June 29, 2026. Under this grant, Lighthouse serves 300 adults over the project life in Manitowoc and Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, building recovery capital through peer recovery support (PRS) services. Specific deliverables include expanding unduplicated PRS service delivery to 300 adults; implementing professional development for recovery coaches and certified peer support specialists (targeting training of 57 peer providers total through 2025); increasing peer professional retention from 30% to 45%; establishing a Recovery Resource Council with monthly-minimum convenings to coordinate services across agencies; and conducting ten recovery education events in the community to destigmatize substance use disorders. The organization also holds two sub-grant awards from the State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services: one dated August 28, 2024, under the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant program (CFDA 93.959, FAIN B08TI083973), with a grant period running through September 30, 2025; and a second sub-award dated April 29, 2025. Activity has remained steady at one award per year. Lighthouse operates exclusively as a grant recipient; it holds no federal contracts, IDVs, or prime contracting vehicles, and its sub-award work is routed through state-level passthrough grantees rather than prime federal contractors.