Westcare Wisconsin, Inc.

Westcare Wisconsin, Inc., a Milwaukee-based tax-exempt nonprofit organization, serves as a federal grant recipient delivering youth substance abuse prevention and community health services to the Department of Health and Human Services, with smaller federal grant sub-award footprints under state health department administration. The organization operates as a grant prime (35% of recent awards) and grant sub-recipient (65%), with no federal contract vehicles or contract prime activity in the source data.

Westcare Wisconsin's grant work centers on youth prevention and community engagement in Milwaukee. As a prime grant recipient, the organization holds two active HHS awards: a $2.4 million five-year Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Projects of Regional and National Significance grant (CFDA 93.492) awarded September 30, 2025, running through September 29, 2030, for the WC-WI Life Skills Training Project, which delivers the Botvin Life Skills Curriculum, farm trips, and peer recovery support services to approximately 50 fourth through sixth grade students per year in Milwaukee Public Schools and identifies and addresses cannabis, vaping, and opioid use; and a $125,000 Drug-Free Communities Support Program grant (CFDA 93.276) awarded July 1, 2026, for Year 6 of the WC-WI Coalition's implementation running through June 30, 2031, operating from the Westcare Wisconsin Harambee Community Center to reduce youth substance use through prevention strategies and positive alternatives in the Harambee neighborhood. The organization also holds multiple sub-awards from the State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services and other state-administered programs spanning youth services, community organizing, crime awareness prevention, housing rehabilitation, neighborhood improvement, and economic development since 2024. Westcare Wisconsin partners strategically with Harambee DFC and Beulah Family Homestead to deliver community engagement prevention models and serves as the epicenter for mentoring, resources, training, and community planning within Milwaukee's high-poverty neighborhoods where median household income ($30,587) substantially trails the national median and approximately 35 percent of the local population is under age 21. Recent award activity shows concentration in HHS (five awards documented across CDC and SAMHSA) with one documented Department of Justice and one Department of Labor award among the top customers by award count, capturing 45 percent of documented awards. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $9.7 million, with annual volume ranging from one award in 2020 and 2021 to five in 2024 and nine in 2025.