Sunset Park Health Council, Inc.

Sunset Park Health Council, Inc., doing business as Family Health Centers At NYU Langone, is a tax-exempt nonprofit federally qualified health center network based in Brooklyn, New York, that receives federal grant funding and delivers dental didactic training, residency education, and behavioral and primary health services to underserved populations across Brooklyn as a prime recipient of federal grants and as a subrecipient under state-administered federal programs. The organization operates primarily under federal grant vehicles rather than federal contracts; its recent footprint consists of 77 prime awards (76% of total) and 24 sub-awards, with a combined potential value across all 101 awards of $398 thousand in contract work and $966 million in obligated grant dollars.

Sunset Park Health Council's federal work centers on health professions training, behavioral health services, and primary care capacity-building. On the contract side, the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 (VISN 1) has awarded five purchase orders—each worth $45,000 annually—for Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA)-accredited didactic residency training for dental residents at the Providence VA Medical Center, running consecutively from July 2022 through June 2027 under sole-source, non-set-aside designations. On the grant side, the organization holds a dense portfolio of Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recipient awards. Recent major grants include a $1 million HRSA Primary Care Training and Enhancement award (CFDA 93.884) through June 2031 for residency training in street medicine for internal medicine residents; a $400,000 SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services grant (CFDA 93.532) awarded September 2026 through September 2030 for the Hope In Reach community-based adult suicide prevention initiative targeting six Brooklyn neighborhoods; a $2.575 million HRSA Integrated Substance Use Disorder Training Program (July 2023 through June 2028) training nurse practitioners, nurses, licensed master social workers, and health service psychologists in behavioral health integration; and a $2.062 million Community Health Worker Training Program grant (September 2022 through March 2026) for HRSA-certified training of community health workers and health support workers serving Brooklyn's health professional shortage areas.

The organization's customer base is concentrated in civilian health agencies. HRSA and SAMHSA dominate recent activity, accounting for 34 awards across their bureaus and sub-programs; the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 11 awards (WIC Local Agency contracts awarded through New York State Department of Health as a subrecipient). The Department of Health and Human Services bureaus—Health Resources and Services Administration, SAMHSA, and the HIV/AIDS Bureau—supply the highest award counts and dollar value. Recent teaching health center graduate medical education grants from HRSA's Bureau of Health Professionals support internal medicine and psychiatry residency programs: a $8.64 million internal medicine THCGME expansion (July 2022 through June 2024) training 54 residents across four years, and a $4.8 million psychiatry residency program (July 2022 through June 2024) supporting 12 residents. Sunset Park Health Council also holds active HRSA grants for teaching health center graduate medical education payment programs, early childhood development, cancer screening acceleration, and bridge access, and SAMHSA awards for child trauma treatment and suicide prevention.

As a subrecipient, Sunset Park Health Council receives funding flows through New York State entities—principally the Office of Mental Health (First Episode Psychosis / On-Track NY programs), the Department of Health (WIC Local Agency contracts), and the Department of Education (educational services to out-of-school youth). The organization also subcontracts under New York University research grants (including NIH-funded work on transporter biology and health IT solutions for minority health disparities) and participates as a sub-awardee under the National Council on the Aging for COVID-19 and influenza vaccine initiatives. Eight awards with completion dates in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $45 thousand) face recompete exposure; activity has remained relatively stable across the past five years (8 to 14 awards annually), with no growth trajectory.

Sunset Park Health Council's federal footprint reflects its identity as a community health center network anchored in underserved Brooklyn neighborhoods: the organization competes for and holds federal training grants in medical and dental residencies, community health worker training, and behavioral health workforce development, all rooted in HRSA and SAMHSA statutory programs for federally qualified health centers. The organization does not hold federal contracts on GSA vehicles, GWACs, or agency-wide IDIQs and does not operate as a prime contractor in the traditional federal procurement sense; its relationship with the VA is limited to a narrow, recurring annual purchase order for dental training delivery. Federal grant work dominates the portfolio in both scope and dollar magnitude.