The Harris Center For Mental Health & IDD

The Harris Center For Mental Health & IDD, a local government-owned entity based in Houston, Texas, provides mental health treatment, substance abuse recovery services, and integrated primary care to underserved populations as both a federal grant recipient (36% prime awards) and a federal grant sub-recipient (64% sub awards), with no federal contract prime footprint. The organization competes full-and-open across both its prime grant work and subordinate federal grant awards; it does not hold SBA set-aside designations.

The Harris Center's federal grant portfolio centers on behavioral health and recovery services delivered through SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) programs, HUD community development funding, and Veterans Affairs contracts. Representative prime grant work includes a $481,923 SAMHSA award under the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances program (CFDA 93.104) to establish a Clinical High Risk Psychosis Program serving individuals ages 10 to 25 across Harris County through stepped-care assessment and evidence-based treatment running through September 2030; a $650,000 Health Resources and Services Administration award under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to expand primary care and integrated behavioral health services across two fixed clinics and a mobile clinic serving medically underserved areas of Houston through July 2027; and a prior SAMHSA grant for the L.I.F.E. (Living Is For Everyone) suicide prevention program implementing zero-suicide framework for individuals at highest risk through September 2028. The Harris Center also holds a single-award indefinite-delivery contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Integrated Service Network 17, valued at $4.6 million ceiling through February 2031, providing transition sober living residential services for veterans recovering from substance abuse disorders in Houston; three delivery orders have been placed against this IDIQ since March 2026, totaling $933,180 in potential value.

The Harris Center's customer concentration sits overwhelmingly with HHS SAMHSA (33 awards across multiple grant lines), followed by HUD's Community Planning and Development office (9 awards) and the Department of Veterans Affairs VISN 17 (6 awards, $9.3 million combined potential value). The VA contract work anchors the organization's federal contract revenue and represents its only direct federal procurement vehicle. Grant sub-award activity is concentrated under the Texas Health and Human Services Commission as prime grantee, with The Harris Center sub-receiving funding for mental health authority performance agreements, substance abuse intervention and treatment, early childhood intervention services, and coordinated specialty care programs. Recent sub-award work also includes participation in a HOME Investment Partnerships Program American Rescue Plan (HOME-ARP) award sub-recipient role for street homelessness services, and emergency management grants flowing through Texas Division of Emergency Management for building damage recovery.

Award activity has been volatile in the recent snapshot: 1 award in 2022, 15 in 2023, 2 in 2024, 18 in 2025, and 12 in 2026 (through September). This volatility reflects the grant-dominated funding model, where large multi-year awards span many reporting periods and sub-awards cluster around state-level grant cycles. The combined potential value across all 61 awards in the source data is $9.3 million, though the combined dollars obligated across all awards ($102.5 million) reflects prior-year funding obligations under existing awards. Within the next twenty-four months, four awards face ultimate completion dates with combined potential value of $854,000, representing near-term recompete exposure limited to the first ordering period of the VA sober living IDIQ and one or two sub-award grant cycles under state pass-through programs. The organization's federal footprint is predominantly sub-recipient grant work flowing through state mental health and human services authorities; its prime federal presence remains concentrated in SAMHSA behavioral health grants and the single VA contract vehicle.