Riverside Community Care, Inc.

Riverside Community Care, Inc., a tax-exempt non-profit organization headquartered in Dedham, Massachusetts, develops K–12 suicide prevention curriculum and behavioral health services for the federal government as a prime contractor on a single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Department of Defense Education Activity and as a prime grant recipient under the Office of Head Start and SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services. The vendor competes in full-and-open procurement without set-aside designations and also receives sub-awards under Massachusetts state grant recipients in child nutrition and victim services programs.

Riverside's federal contracting footprint centers on DoDEA, which accounts for all 10 of its prime contract awards and the full $1.2 million combined potential value across the recent contract portfolio. The core capability is development of evidence-based suicide prevention instructional resources, including classroom curricula, digital and print materials, virtual professional learning webinars, and validated suicide risk screening instruments, designed for school counselors, psychologists, and nurses serving 67,000 military-connected students across DoDEA's 161 schools worldwide, including installations in foreign countries. The current single-award indefinite delivery contract, awarded March 21, 2025, carries a $522,240 ceiling through March 20, 2026 and was structured as a sole-source acquisition based on DoDEA's determination that Riverside's Signs of Suicide program uniquely met the agency's requirements. Riverside delivered a $73,000 task order on April 7, 2025, and earlier delivery orders in the 2022–2024 period ranged from $7,000 to $92,600 annually under a prior 10-year contract that expired in August 2024. The present contract bridges continuity of services while DoDEA plans a full competitive recompete for fiscal 2026.

Alongside its contract work, Riverside holds prime recipient status on two federal grants: an Early Head Start project grant awarded May 1, 2022 (completing April 30, 2027) through the Office of Head Start, and a two-year SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services project grant awarded September 30, 2021 (completed September 29, 2023) for expanded behavioral health access in Norwood and Milford, Massachusetts, targeting at least 300 additional individuals annually with serious mental illness, severe emotional disturbance, and co-occurring disorders through increased clinical staff, expanded medication-assisted treatment, and technological capability enhancements.

Riverside also receives sub-awards under Massachusetts state entities, primarily the Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Sub-awards flow through food service programs (National School Lunch Program and Child and Adult Care Food Program) under USDA Food and Nutrition Service, victim services continuation grants under DOJ Victims of Crime Act funding, and special education grants under the Department of Education. In recent activity, contract awards declined from 4 in 2022 to 1 in 2026; one award (the current DoDEA contract) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, triggering recompete exposure.