Ness Healthcare NFP

Ness Healthcare NFP is a nonprofit behavioral healthcare provider based in Mandeville, Louisiana, that specializes in mental health and substance abuse services in rural communities. The organization is registered in SAM.gov and operates as a tax-exempt corporate entity with a primary classification as both a hospital and non-profit organization. Through federal grant awards, Ness Healthcare NFP delivers comprehensive mental health, substance abuse treatment, and emergency medical services training programs across rural Louisiana, positioning itself as one of the state's largest nonprofit behavioral healthcare providers.

Ness Healthcare NFP has secured six prime federal grant awards totaling significant federal investment in behavioral health and emergency services infrastructure. The organization received a $350,000 Transitional Living for Homeless Youth grant (CFDA 93.550) from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families to operate the Maternity Group Home Program, which provides shelter and comprehensive services including parenting skills, child development, and life skills training to pregnant and parenting youth ages 16-21 and their dependent children. Additionally, Ness Healthcare NFP has received multiple Rural Emergency Medical Services (REMS) Training Program grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded in 2022, 2023, and 2024, designed to train EMS and first responders across rural parishes in Louisiana on mental health crisis response, de-escalation, addiction treatment, and suicide risk assessment, with training approved for continuing education credits by the Louisiana Department of Health Bureau of EMS. The organization also operates a Pregnant and Postpartum Women (PPW) Program funded by SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, targeting pregnant and postpartum individuals with substance use disorders and their children, with a specific focus on Black/African American individuals, sex workers, and those involved with the criminal justice system or at-risk of child welfare involvement. Furthermore, Ness Healthcare NFP received a Community Behavioral Health Center (CCBHC) expansion grant from SAMHSA to provide integrated behavioral health services across three rural parishes in Southeast Louisiana (St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Washington) to adults with serious mental illness, adolescents with serious emotional disturbance, and individuals with co-occurring disorders including opioid use disorders. The organization has also received sub-grant awards from the Homeland Security & Emergency Management Agency and Louisiana Department of Health for contract labor, management costs, mobile crisis response services, behavioral health crisis care, and community brief crisis support services, demonstrating its collaborative capacity with state and federal emergency management entities.