Wellness And Equity Foundation, Inc.

Wellness And Equity Foundation, Inc., a tax-exempt non-profit organization based in Scotts Valley, California, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering behavioral health workforce training, HIV prevention and care coordination, and opioid harm-reduction services to rural and medically underserved communities in California. The organization has no federal contract awards and does not compete under federal procurement set-asides; all three recent federal awards are project grants from the Department of Health and Human Services.

The foundation's customer base is entirely concentrated within HHS. The Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration has funded all three awards: a $350,000 grant from the Bureau of Health Professionals (CFDA 93.732, Mental and Behavioral Health Education and Training Grants) awarded September 1, 2026, and two grants from HHS divisions awarded September 1, 2025.

The largest and most recent award is the Mental and Behavioral Health Education and Training grant, running through August 31, 2029, under which Wellness And Equity Foundation operates the Wellness Equity Institute. This program develops and delivers a Level 1 community-based behavioral health paraprofessional training curriculum in Palm Springs, California, preparing culturally responsive lay counselors and community health workers to serve children, adolescents, and transitional-age youth experiencing trauma and homelessness. The curriculum emphasizes lived experience, family partnership, trauma-informed care, crisis intervention, and interprofessional collaboration, with trainees receiving stipends, mentorship, and academic coaching. Performance is carried out in partnership with College of the Desert, Lay Counselor Institute, and the USC Keck School of Medicine.

Two additional grants awarded in September 2025, both completing August 31, 2026, funded HIV prevention and care coordination work and opioid harm-reduction outreach. The HIV/AIDS Bureau grant supported expansion of HIV treatment and care coordination in Yucca Valley and Twentynine Palms through partnerships with managed care, county health, street medicine, and social service agencies. The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy grant funded a mobile medicine team deploying naloxone, fentanyl test strips, substance-use screening, and insurance enrollment assistance to unhoused, justice-involved, and veteran populations across Blythe, Yucca Valley, and Twentynine Palms in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.

The organization has no federal contract footprint and no sub-award relationships in the source data; all awards reflect grant work as a prime recipient.