Prevention Links, Inc.

Prevention Links, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Kenilworth, New Jersey, operates as a federal grant recipient providing peer recovery support infrastructure, addiction treatment and prevention services, and recovery ecosystem coordination to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and related HHS agencies. The vendor functions primarily as a sub-recipient (67% of recent awards) under pass-through grants from the New Jersey Department of Human Services, with a smaller prime-recipient footprint anchored by direct SAMHSA awards.

Prevention Links' customer concentration is heavily concentrated within HHS and SAMHSA. Of 51 total awards tracked across the past eighteen years, 42 awards (82% of the award count) flow through various SAMHSA programs and HHS offices; the Department of Justice's Drug Enforcement Administration and the CDC account for a combined 6 awards (12% of the count). The top-customer ranking is dominated by SAMHSA, which appears three times in the top-five list with 42 combined awards and represents the vendor's primary federal customer base. The skew toward SAMHSA sub-awards reflects Prevention Links' role as an operational partner within New Jersey's substance abuse and recovery support delivery network rather than a contractor pursuing multi-agency work.

Recent prime-recipient work includes a $350,000 project grant from SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment awarded September 30, 2026, under CFDA 93.490 (Projects of Regional and National Significance) to establish and operate the Garden State Recovery Network, a statewide peer recovery support infrastructure serving all 21 New Jersey counties through September 2029. The grant will provide direct peer recovery support services to 525 individuals over three years while reaching an additional 1,500 through referrals and coordinated activities, targeting adults and transition-age youth aged 16 and older, with emphasis on justice-involved individuals, veterans, rural and underserved communities, and those experiencing housing instability or unemployment. The network will deliver peer mentoring, recovery navigation, housing and employment support, family support, and connections to behavioral health and community resources through a statewide referral platform. Prevention Links also holds a completed SAMHSA project grant (CFDA 93.490) awarded September 30, 2023, that concluded September 29, 2026, focused on building ecosystems of integrated recovery support services through the New Jersey Coalition for Addiction Recovery Support (NJ-CARS), providing training and technical assistance to healthcare providers and peer recovery support service providers statewide, with emphasis on infectious disease treatment and harm reduction providers.

Sub-recipient work spans 34 awards flowing through the New Jersey Department of Human Services as the prime grantee, covering state opioid response grants, strategic prevention framework partnerships, community peer recovery center operations across Hudson, Middlesex, and Union counties, substance abuse prevention and treatment services, and COVID-era emergency SABG funding. Activity has fluctuated moderately — one award in 2022, nine in 2023, twelve in 2024, eleven in 2025, and three tracked through October 2026. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $24.2 million, reflecting the grant-focused, recovery-services orientation of the vendor's federal footprint.