The NC Youth Violence Prevention Center

The NC Youth Violence Prevention Center (NC-YVPC), a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Lumberton, North Carolina, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering trauma-informed mental health treatment, youth violence prevention and intervention services, and evidence-based crisis support to rural and underserved communities across the Southeast and nationally. NC-YVPC operates almost exclusively as a grant recipient (85% of awards by count) rather than as a contractor, with recent work concentrated in SAMHSA and Department of Justice funding streams.

NC-YVPC's federal customer base spans four agencies, with strong concentration in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services) and the Department of Justice. SAMHSA accounts for five awards across the CFDA 93.532 (Center for Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance) program, anchoring NC-YVPC's recent pipeline with two concurrent $600,000 grants awarded September 30, 2026 — one to establish the Rural Trauma Treatment Implementation and Adaptation Center, disseminating virtual training, consultation, and fidelity monitoring for Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Bounce Back, and trauma-informed services to rural clinicians and workforce-shortage communities nationwide, and a second to develop and test TF-CBT Workbook Coach, a supervised AI-assisted interactive application supporting children's trauma-focused therapy practice between clinical sessions. DOJ accounts for seven awards split between the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (three awards including a $830,000 grant to expand the Victim Empowerment and Education Program statewide) and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (four awards including a $1.3 million community-based violence intervention and prevention initiative grant running through September 2026). A fifth SAMHSA award of unspecified dollar value, dated September 30, 2023, positions NC-YVPC as a Community Treatment and Service Center providing outreach, evidence-based mental health treatment, and technical assistance on trauma-informed practices across five rural southeastern North Carolina counties in partnership with Advantage Behavioral Healthcare Inc.

NC-YVPC's activity shows concentration in fiscal years 2023, 2026, and near-term recompete exposure. Four awards were obligated in 2026 alone, including a third SAMHSA grant of $735,000 dated September 30, 2026 to establish the Lumbee Youth Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention Network, designated by the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina as lead implementation agency, delivering youth suicide prevention capacity through screening, referral, safety planning, family support, care coordination, and training for youth up to age 24 in Robeson County and surrounding tribal communities. Two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete opportunity for DOJ's Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation grant (completion September 30, 2026, already past) and SAMHSA's Recast Robeson County resilience and community violence reduction initiative (completion September 29, 2027). Combined dollars obligated across all thirteen awards total $22.1 million. NC-YVPC subcontracts minimally — one sub-award appears under the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration Growth Opportunities Program (CFDA not specified), awarded June 30, 2025 to the International Youth Foundation, under which NC-YVPC delivers employment readiness training and support to a minimum of 212 justice-involved or at-risk youth.