Prevented

Prevented, a nonprofit community-based organization headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, acts as a prime recipient of federal grants for substance use disorder prevention, treatment, recovery support services, and mental health awareness programming in rural and underserved areas. The organization operates exclusively as a federal grant recipient — not as a federal contractor — across eight distinct federal agencies with 13 prime grants (87% of recent awards) and two sub-grants.

Prevented's capability portfolio centers on evidence-based behavioral health interventions embedded within community and justice-system settings. Recent representative grant work includes a $400,000 award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.490) dated September 30, 2026, to expand treatment and recovery support services for adults in Franklin County and Lincoln County treatment courts in rural eastern Missouri through September 29, 2031, using certified peer specialists as peer liaisons to improve treatment engagement and court completion; a $1,239,089 award from SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.492) dated September 30, 2025, to deliver K-12 school-based substance use prevention education to 4,639 students across 11 schools in Warren County through September 29, 2030; and a $1 million Rural Communities Opioid Response (RCORP) Implementation grant from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy dated September 1, 2022, through February 28, 2026, targeting screening, treatment access, and peer support for individuals with opioid and substance use disorders in rural Lincoln County. Prevented also received a Drug-Free Communities Support Program grant of $124,999 from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (October 1, 2024 through July 1, 2026) and mental health first-aid training awards from SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services (awarded December 31, 2022 through September 29, 2026). The organization works in partnership with local treatment courts, health departments, school districts, and recovery organizations including Assisted Recovery Centers of America, Wyman, the Center for Public Health Systems SCIENCE, and Kids Under Twenty-One.

Customer concentration runs heavily toward the Department of Health and Human Services — the Health Resources and Services Administration accounts for four awards, SAMHSA for two, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for three. The Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Drug Enforcement Administration provide one and two awards respectively. Activity has been modest and episodic — two awards in 2022, one in 2021, two in 2024, three in 2025, and two in 2026 — with combined potential value of $289 thousand across all 15 awards; obligated dollars total $16.6 million, indicating substantial drawdown against multi-year grants. Two awards face completion inside the next twenty-four months. Prevented operates two sub-grant positions with St. Louis County (awarded February 9, 2026 and January 2, 2025) focused on mental health and harm-reduction education and outreach.