The Martinsburg Initiative, Inc.

The Martinsburg Initiative, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit headquartered in Martinsburg, West Virginia, is a federal grant recipient focused on substance abuse prevention, behavioral health services, and community support for youth and families in the Appalachian region, operating as a prime recipient on eight of its ten federal awards (80%) and as a sub-recipient on two.

The Martinsburg Initiative functions as a police-school-community-health-education coalition delivering evidence-based prevention and treatment services targeting youth ages 9–20 and families in Berkeley County and Jefferson County, West Virginia. Its capability portfolio centers on multi-tiered substance use prevention (primary, secondary, and tertiary tiers), trauma-informed behavioral health services addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), medication-assisted treatment (MOUD) access expansion, harm reduction initiatives, peer recovery support services, youth-led social norms campaigns, and community capacity building. Representative prime grant awards include a $1,239,089 SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Prevention project grant (CFDA 93.492) under the Strategic Prevention Framework Partnership for Success program, awarded September 30, 2025, through September 29, 2030, to implement evidence-based prevention targeting alcohol, marijuana, prescription drug, and opioid use among at-risk youth in Berkeley County; a $1.0 million Appalachian Regional Commission Project Grant (CFDA 23.002) for organizational capacity building, awarded October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028; and a SAMHSA-funded Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking (STOP) Act grant awarded September 30, 2024, through September 29, 2028, to expand underage drinking prevention into Jefferson County through environmental strategies and youth-led prevention. Additional work includes a SAMHSA project on substance use prevention and treatment services supporting WVU Medicine's opioid use disorder treatment expansion (completed September 29, 2025) and a behavioral health and support services grant addressing ACEs (completed September 29, 2025).

Customer concentration is tightly held by the Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which issued 7 of 9 awards tracked in the customer portfolio (accounting for 78% of coverage), with the Executive Office of the President's Office of the National Drug Control Policy and the Appalachian Regional Commission filling secondary roles. The Martinsburg Initiative operates exclusively in the federal grant space; no contract vehicles or IDIQs appear in the award record. In its sub-recipient role, the organization delivers trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR services to children and families affected by substance use as a sub-award under a West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources grant and participates in a July 1, 2026 sub-award providing evidence-based trauma therapies. Activity shows two awards completing in the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure. Recent growth spans 2022 through 2026, with a combined obligated dollar volume of $5.6 million across the ten awards.