Safer Alternatives Through Networking And Education

Safer Alternatives Through Networking And Education (doing business as Safer Alternative Through Networking) is a Sacramento, California–based tax-exempt nonprofit organization that operates as a sub-recipient on federal grant programs focused on opioid response and behavioral health, with no prime contracting or grant footprint and no seats on federal contract vehicles.

The vendor's entire federal award footprint consists of three sub-awards under pass-through funding from the California Department of Health Care Services. Two awards flow from the State Opioid Response Grant program — one sub-award issued September 1, 2022, and another issued March 1, 2023 — and one sub-award issued November 1, 2021, under the SABG/MHBG (Substance Abuse Block Grant / Mental Health Block Grant) program. All three sub-awards funnel federal dollars from the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Combined obligated dollars across the three sub-awards total $592 thousand, with activity running at a steady one award per year from 2021 through 2023. The most recent award dates to March 1, 2023, indicating no documented federal activity in the thirty-nine months since. The vendor serves a single customer (DHHS SAMHSA) through a single prime grantee (California Department of Health Care Services), with no direct federal relationships, no subcontracting relationships under federal contracts, and no visible pipeline beyond the final 2023 sub-award completion.