Helio Health, Inc.

Helio Health, Inc., a nonprofit organization headquartered in Syracuse, New York, provides substance use disorder treatment, mental health counseling, crisis intervention, medication-assisted treatment, and supportive housing services to federal inmates, individuals on home confinement, and homeless populations as a prime recipient on federal grants (88% of recent awards) and a subrecipient on state-administered federal programs. The organization holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) with the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons valued at $2.1 million through February 2030 and receives recurring project grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267).

Helio Health's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in housing and homelessness programs. The Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development accounts for 150 awards across the portfolio, representing the overwhelming majority of recent activity; the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons holds 37 awards with $13.7 million in combined potential value. The remaining customer agencies—the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (21 total awards across two grant programs), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (7 awards, primarily pandemic-era PPE and testing support)—are secondary. HUD Continuum of Care awards dominate by count; DOJ awards carry the largest individual dollar values. Representative DOJ work includes a $218,887 delivery order awarded March 1, 2026, under the Bureau of Prisons IDC for substance use and mental health treatment services in Syracuse through September 2026; a $33,640 October 2025 delivery order for the same services through February 2026; and a $69,805.50 January 2024 order. HUD CoC grant examples include a $1.3 million project grant (November 2025–October 2026) for permanent supportive housing and rapid rehousing, a $626,692 grant (October 2025–September 2026), and multiple smaller awards ranging from $130,000 to $567,000 supporting housing and case management services for homeless populations.

Helio Health also holds direct federal grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Mental Health Services and Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. A $3.7 million (approximate) SAMHSA-CMHS Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Improvement Project grant (September 2023–September 2027) funds expansion of 24/7 mobile crisis response and behavioral health services for children and families at Helio's Meadows Clinic in Syracuse across five Central New York counties; a second CCBHC-Planning and Development Initiative grant (September 2022–September 2026) supports opening a new CCBHC in Utica to serve the Mohawk Valley. A $2.1 million SAMHSA-CSAT grant for the Oneida County Adult Treatment Drug Court Expansion Project (September 2022–September 2027) expands forensic case management and substance use treatment services to justice-involved adults in Oneida County.

Subrecipient activity ties primarily to New York State agencies. Helio Health receives sub-awards through the New York State Office of Mental Health for Jail Diversion programs (redirecting individuals with serious mental illness from incarceration into community-based treatment) and the PATH program (residential intake and entitlement services); through the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene for State Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) Statewide Opioid Response (SOR) initiatives; and through the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services for pandemic-era PPE, testing, and emergency protective measures (all now closed). These sub-awards reflect Helio's deep embeddedness in New York's behavioral health and criminal justice diversion infrastructure.

The IDC footprint includes four parent vehicles with active task order activity. The Bureau of Prisons maintains three single-award contracts under which Helio operates: contract 15BCTS20D00000579 (11 task orders, $497 thousand combined potential value), DJBTDAT096 (9 task orders, $994 thousand), and DJBTDAT349 (9 task orders, $1.3 million). A fourth vehicle, contract 15BCTS25D00000005, carries 3 task orders valued at $287 thousand. Delivery orders across all Bureau of Prisons vehicles are firm fixed-price and specify substance use assessments, mental health evaluations, psychiatric services, medication management, crisis intervention, and counseling for federal inmates at the local Residential Re-entry Center and individuals on home confinement, with all work performed in Syracuse within a 5-mile radius of City Hall and within half a mile of public transportation.

Award activity has remained relatively flat at 20–21 awards per year across 2022–2025, with five awards recorded in 2026 (the source cutoff is early July). Ten awards with ultimate completion dates inside the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $219 thousand, representing a modest recompete cliff. The organization's primary NAICS coding (Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers, 38 awards) and PSC coding (Social–Social Rehabilitation, 38 awards) ground the federal characterization in direct behavioral health service delivery rather than consulting or management support. Helio Health registered in SAM.gov in 2008 and maintains continuous federal award activity as a nonprofit provider deeply integrated into federal and state behavioral health and criminal justice systems in Central Upstate New York.