Phoenix Counseling Center

Phoenix Counseling Center, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Gastonia, North Carolina, provides clinical mental health and substance-use assessment services, case management, and peer support specialist staffing to federal grant programs exclusively as a sub-recipient (100% of recent awards). The vendor operates under federal grants administered by Gaston County rather than as a prime contractor or prime grantee.

Phoenix Counseling Center's entire federal footprint consists of three sub-awards under the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance, all executed through Gaston County as the prime grantee. The vendor delivers services to the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program, performing clinical assessments to determine substance-use and mental-health disorder status, developing individualized treatment plans, staffing two full-time case managers and one full-time certified peer support specialist per award, and collecting and sharing participant data with the LEAD program manager. Two sub-awards were issued on October 1, 2024; a third sub-award followed on July 30, 2026, with a grant-award modification adding $44.15 thousand to extend programming and participant services. Combined dollars obligated across all three sub-awards total $444 thousand. Activity shows two sub-awards in 2024 and one in 2026, with a single customer agency across the entire portfolio. The vendor operates solely in the LEAD program space and does not currently hold parent vehicles, IDIQs, or independent prime positions on federal contracts or grants.