Sherays & Associates LLC

Sherays & Associates LLC, a minority-owned and woman-owned small business based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, operates as a prime contractor delivering community outreach, substance abuse prevention, and trauma-informed care consulting services exclusively to the Drug Enforcement Administration. The company is structured as a limited liability corporation and competes on full-and-open purchase orders with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

Sherays & Associates has a singularly concentrated customer relationship: all fourteen prime awards across the past four-plus years derive from the DEA's Operation Engage program, which funds community-based prevention, engagement, and education initiatives. The company's work centers on faith-based and culturally inclusive community engagement, delivering in-person training for faith-based organizations on adverse childhood experiences and trauma impacts, conducting community assessments and surveillance, organizing town hall meetings and community conversations, developing sustainability plans to build local capacity for substance abuse prevention, and delivering multicultural champions of prevention education events. Representative contract work includes a $24,999 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded in June 2023 supporting the Spokane DEA divisional office for Operation Engage community outreach; a $20,000 contract awarded in May 2024 to conduct assessment processes and hold up to four planning meetings with the DEA's Northeast Field Division on faith-based community engagement; and a $24,999 purchase order awarded in April 2026 for Operation Engage initiatives across multiple DEA field divisions (Northeast, Phoenix, and New Orleans regions) performing through April 2027.

Activity grew from two awards in 2022 to a peak of seven in 2024, though recent annual volume has moderated to one award each in 2025 and 2026. Combined potential value across all fourteen awards totals $207 thousand, with all dollars obligated. Two awards (combined potential value $45 thousand) reach completion within the next twenty-four months. The vendor does not hold position on any parent IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs and performs all work as a direct prime with no subcontract footprint. Sherays & Associates operates across multiple DEA field divisions including the Northeast, Phoenix, Spokane, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge regions, with place of performance locations in Farmers Branch, Texas and Dallas supporting the company's focus on community-level substance abuse prevention and trauma-informed engagement.

SheRay's & Associates team has provided leadership and training on SAMHSA's Substance abuse Prevention Specialist (SAPST) training curriculum. We have also provided trainings and technical assistance to SAMHSA's Minority serving institution (2009-2019) ( Historically Black, Latino and Native American colleges/ universities) on the strategic prevention framework, and substance abuse prevention. Throughout its history, we have partnered with community based organizations in evaluating and providing technical assistance to programs for high risk and vulnerable populations. We have extensive experience conducting dozens of evaluation projects funded by SAMHSA ( CSAT, CSAP, and CMHS) as well as HRSA, NIDA, CDC, state and local funding sources, and privet foundations.