Preferred Family Healthcare, Incorporated

Preferred Family Healthcare Inc., a Missouri-based tax-exempt nonprofit behavioral health organization headquartered in Kirksville, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering community health, substance-use treatment, housing support, and mental health services to rural and underserved populations across the Midwest. The organization acts primarily as a prime grant recipient (77% of recent awards) and secondarily as a sub-recipient flowing federal funding through state and local pass-through entities, with no federal contracts in its recent award footprint — its federal presence is entirely grants-driven.

The vendor's core capability portfolio centers on residential and outpatient substance-use and mental health treatment, homelessness prevention and housing support, maternal and family services, and community health infrastructure. Representative grant work includes a $114,778 Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267) award from HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development for fiscal 2026 addressing homelessness in Kirksville through permanent housing, rapid rehousing, and supportive services; a $1.999 million Rural Communities Opioid Response Program award from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy running through August 2026 for behavioral health support across a multi-state rural catchment area; a $625,000 mental health awareness training project from SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services (running through September 2026) delivering training to over 8,000 nonprofit professionals in Mental Health First Aid, QPR, and evidence-informed workshops; and a five-year Preserving Families Through Partnerships cooperative agreement from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families providing comprehensive substance-use treatment and recovery services to pregnant and postpartum women across ten Missouri counties, with an expansion to serve 176 unduplicated clients. The organization also operates Dayspring Community Services (a division of Preferred Family Healthcare) as a recipient of a five-year SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services Project LAUNCH award delivering trauma-focused therapeutic services to young children (ages 0–8) and their caregivers across three Oklahoma counties. Preferred Family Healthcare describes itself as an organization with over forty years of experience as a federally qualified health center delivering behavioral health and social services.

Customer concentration sits heavily with HUD's Continuum of Care program (18 awards, magnitude not specified in the award-count coverage), the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Central Office (13 awards, $2.3 million combined potential value), SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and Center for Mental Health Services (12 and 8 awards respectively, specific dollar values unstated), and the Health Resources and Services Administration (12 awards, values not specified). These five customer categories represent 61% of all awards. The vendor also receives sub-recipient awards flowing through state social services departments in Missouri and Illinois and the Missouri Department of Mental Health, reflecting a funding model where federal dollars pass through state agencies before reaching the organization — recent sub-awards include Victims of Crime Act funding, Domestic Violence Sub-Service funding, and Block Grants for Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse flows.

The vendor sits on three named federal IDIQs or task-order vehicles: Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Central Office Indefinite Delivery Contract DJBCTS373 (6 task orders, $357 thousand combined potential value), DJBTDAT112 (5 task orders, $697 thousand combined potential value), and a Veterans Affairs Basic Ordering Agreement VA255BO0222 (5 task orders, $174 thousand combined potential value). These vehicles appear to support Preferred Family Healthcare's work delivering health and behavioral services to specialized federal populations — Bureau of Prisons and Veterans Health Administration beneficiaries.

Activity has been irregular but sustained. The past five years show seven awards in 2022, thirteen in 2023, eight in 2024, eight in 2025, and two recorded in 2026 through mid-February. Six awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, representing potential recompete exposure. The combined potential value across all 104 awards (prime and sub combined) in the source data is reported as $2.5 million, although this appears substantially understated relative to the combined dollars obligated across those awards ($209 million). This large discrepancy suggests the source's "combined potential value" figure may reflect only a subset of awards and does not capture the full funding magnitude of the vendor's federal grant footprint. The vendor's work spans rural homelessness, substance-use disorder treatment, maternal health in economically disadvantaged regions, child trauma recovery, opioid response coordination, and health center infrastructure expansion — core federal health and human services priorities in rural America.