Opioid and Stimulant Use Disorder Prevention and Education (September 1, 2026 – August 31, 2027)

The Opioid and Stimulant Use Disorder Prevention and Education program works to support awareness, outreach and education addressing opioids and stimulants, as well as polysubstance use, and strengthens referral pathways to care and treatment services, including Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD), in communities across the state. The Medications for Addiction Treatment Access Points Project is funded through the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) State Opioid Response (SOR) IV grant and is administered and managed by The Center at Sierra Health Foundation.

4th Second

Solano County
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and reduce substance use disorder-related deaths of individuals in Solano County through individualized referral and treatment navigation by building and expanding relationships with substance use disorder treatment providers and housing resources, deploying coordinators to deliver community competent, responsive education on substance use disorder prevention, treatment and life-saving overdose prevention and response services to reach both at-risk individuals and providers.

AHN Foundation

Los Angeles County
$155,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and expand opioid prevention efforts in Los Angeles County by empowering peer leaders and trusted messengers to deliver prevention education, facilitate stigma reduction efforts, and connect low income and uninsured residents to supportive services and treatment.

AMAAD Institute

Los Angeles County
$200,000.00
To support positive health outcomes for residents of South Los Angeles by increasing awareness of opioids, stimulants and polysubstance use and expanding access to prevention resources through community outreach, peer-led education, trusted messenger engagement, stigma reduction, and strengthened referral pathways.

Bayview Hunters Point Foundation

San Francisco County
$193,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes by increasing awareness of opioid and stimulant use disorders among residents of Bayview Hunters Point and Southeast San Francisco through a community-designed media campaign, staff and provider trainings, and strengthening referral pathways connecting residents to treatment and recovery support services, ultimately expanding community understanding, reducing stigma toward people who use drugs, and increasing connections to care.

Beyond the Stars No Limits, Inc.

Kern County
$90,000.00
To strengthen long-term behavioral health and recovery outcomes across Kern County by engaging in bilingual community outreach events and one community workshop, distributing naloxone and prevention materials, producing educational video segments and social media posts, providing individualized navigation and warm referrals to treatment and recovery services, and conducting follow-up to increase prevention knowledge, reduce overdose risk, and improve treatment engagement.

Bienestar Human Services

Los Angeles County
$200,000.00
To bolster health outcomes for individuals with opioid use disorder, stimulant use disorder, and/or cooccurring substance use disorders in South Los Angeles through focused outreach, screening and connections to substance use disorder and medications for addiction treatment services, reducing barriers and stigma while increasing access to whole-person care.

Black Youth Leadership Project

Sacramento County
$200,000.00
To promote positive health outcomes for youth in Sacramento County by expanding substance use prevention youth advocacy and mentorship programs, outreach, education and referral services, resulting in a reduction of stigma, raised awareness and increased access to treatment options, including medications for addiction treatment.

Blue Hollywood Street Sanctuary

Los Angeles County
$150,000.00
To support behavioral health outcomes for people who use drugs in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles through the creation of a Community Ambassador program, strengthening partnerships with local treatment service providers, expanding storytelling opportunities and community conversations designed to answer participant questions, and facilitating warm referrals and programming that supports sustained engagement and relationship-building.

Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency

Alameda County
$200,000.00
To improve health outcomes and reduce opioid and stimulant overdose deaths among people experiencing homelessness and justice-involved individuals in Alameda County by deploying trained credible messengers with lived experience to provide outreach, overdose prevention education, naloxone training, stigma reduction, and warm handoffs to housing, treatment, and medications for addiction treatment and other substance use disorder services.

Casa Treatment Center

Los Angeles County
$200,000.00
To promote health and well-being in the San Gabriel Valley and increase community understanding of opioid use disorder, stimulant use disorder, and polysubstance use, available treatment pathways, and public health solutions, by implementing a prevention education training for staff, weekly community outreach and distribution of educational materials and naloxone, holding a prevention poster competition for high schools that will be made into a billboard, and launching television and social media PSAs.

Casita Feliz Latine LGBTQ+ Center

Fresno, Madera and Tulare counties
$150,000.00
To improve behavioral outcomes within communities in Fresno County by engaging trusted community leaders to provide education, peer-led outreach, stigma reduction, overdose prevention and response strategies, and navigation to affirming treatment and recovery resources.

Catholic Charities Yolo-Solano

Solano and Yolo counties
$200,000.00
To promote life-sustaining health outcomes and recovery from opioid use disorder, stimulant use disorder, and polysubstance use across Yolo and Solano counties through community-based outreach, a stigma reduction campaign, monthly prevention and wellness workshops, and individualized community navigation delivered in trusted community settings, including Family Resource Centers, public housing communities, schools and after-school programs, migrant centers serving farmworker families, residential treatment facilities, food access sites, community wellness events, and other rural and underserved communities.

Center for Applied Research Solutions, Inc.

Statewide
$200,000.00
To support the health of California’s Community College (CCC) students by increasing access to inclusive opioid use disorder, stimulant use disorder, and polysubstance use treatment and recovery through training campus mental health and wellness professionals in Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), providing peer learning, and coaching for campus health and mental health professionals to implement local prevention and referral projects at their colleges, and widely disseminating innovations and effective implementation strategies in a practical toolkit for CCC audiences statewide.

Center for Urban Excellence

Contra Costa and Solano counties
$200,000.00
To improve community understanding of opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use disorders and strengthen behavioral health outcomes in Solano and Contra Costa counties by equipping Youth Leaders and Certified Community Health Workers to deliver culturally responsive prevention education, community outreach, stigma reduction, life-saving overdose prevention and response services, resource navigation, and referrals to treatment and recovery services that increase access to care and reduce barriers to help-seeking.

Central Coast Overdose Prevention

Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz counties
$200,000.00
To support positive health outcomes for individuals in Santa Cruz, San Benito, and Monterey counties by expanding evidence-based opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use education, overdose prevention, peer-led outreach, and recovery navigation.

Champions Recovery Alternative Programs

Kings and Tulare counties
$200,000.00
To support positive health outcomes for residents of Kings and Tulare Counties by providing community education presentations, outreach events, and linguistically responsive prevention resources, and warm handoffs to treatment and recovery services.

Children’s Services Foundation

Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama and Trinity counties
$200,000.00
To promote healthier outcomes for children, youth, and families statewide through evidence-based training to non-medical youth-serving professionals and trusted adults, equipping them to recognize early signs of youth substance use and behavioral health concerns, engage young people in supportive, stigma-free conversations, connect them to appropriate prevention and treatment resources, and strengthen community capacity to improve early intervention, reduce overdose risk and increase access to behavioral health supports.

Community Health Action Network

San Bernardino County
$200,000.00
To support positive health outcomes and reduce the impact of opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use among residents in Victorville, Hesperia, Apple Valley, Adelanto, and Barstow through responsive prevention education, community outreach, stigma reduction, and coordinated referrals to treatment and recovery services delivered in partnership with healthcare providers, public health agencies, faith-based organizations, and community partners.

Community Human Services

Monterey County
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for individuals throughout Monterey County by providing opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance-use education, overdose-prevention information, brief screenings, transportation support, and individualized treatment navigation, with warm referrals to opioid use disorder, other substance use disorder treatment, and co-occurring behavioral health services, while also connecting participants to housing and homeless services when appropriate.

Community Initiatives (Fiscal Sponsor for Opening the World)

Marin County
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for youth and young adults in Marin County through community-based stigma reduction, outreach, education and referrals that are informed by and provided by young adults with lived experience with substances, the juvenile justice system, and childhood trauma.

Community Partners (Fiscal Sponsor for Latino Equality Alliance)

Los Angeles County
$200,000.00
To bolster health outcomes and support the well-being of young adults in Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles, and Southeast Los Angeles through the Mind Over Matter program, an ambassador-led initiative that promotes overdose prevention, sober social spaces, and workforce development while providing substance use education, resource navigation, and outreach in high-risk environments, including nightlife and community social settings, to protect against substance-related harms, and increase access to supportive services.

Community Services and Employment Training

Tulare County
$200,000.00
To improve the health and well-being of underserved individuals, families and communities in Tulare County by establishing a coordinated Community Care Navigation Network to strengthen intake and referral workflows, provide stigma-free opioid and stimulant use disorder prevention and education, conduct community outreach, and implement warm handoff referral practices across trusted community access points.

DISH SF

San Francisco County
$200,000.00
To support the behavioral health outcomes in San Francisco by hiring an opioid use disorder coordinator who will build internal peer-led capacity, facilitate existing peer overdose prevention programs, support groups and wellness activities, and expand pathways to opioid and stimulant treatment care, with the goals of increasing self-reported stability and mental health, decreasing self-reported substance use, and reducing stigma among participants.

Divine Truth Unity Fellowship Church, Inc. dba Rainbow Pride Youth Alliance

Riverside and San Bernardino counties
$200,000.00
To promote positive health outcomes and bolster protective factors against opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use among youth aged 16-24 in Riverside and San Bernardino counties through the implementation of a lifesaving prevention program centered around outreach, education and strengthening of referral pathways to care and treatment, including medications for addiction treatment.

Eggleston Youth Centers Inc.

Los Angeles County
$200,000.00
To improve health outcomes across Los Angeles County by reducing opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use and overdose through community-based outreach, education, naloxone distribution, stigma reduction efforts, strengthened treatment referral pathways and expanded connections to evidence-based care, including medications for addiction treatment.

El Concilio of San Mateo County (Fiscal Sponsor for Youth Point Health)

San Mateo County
$200,000.00
To promote positive health outcomes for youth in north San Mateo County through youth-led prevention education, stigma reduction campaigns, overdose prevention trainings, and strengthening referral pathways to behavioral health and treatment services, including medications for addiction treatment, increasing community knowledge, reducing stigma, improving treatment access, and preventing overdose among youth, adults and families.

El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center

Riverside and San Bernardino counties
$200,000.00
To deploy trusted Community Health Workers to provide community-based outreach, education, screening, and warm referrals to medications for addiction treatment, behavioral health, and recovery support services for individuals and families in California’s Inland Empire, resulting in increased knowledge of substance use disorders, reduced stigma, increased access to treatment and recovery services, strengthened community referral pathways, and reduced overdose deaths.

EmpowHer Institute, Inc.

Los Angeles County
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for girls, ages 11-18, and their families, in Los Angeles County through mentoring, social-emotional learning, substance use education, leadership development, youth-led media projects, and family support, resulting in raised awareness about opioid and stimulant use and alternative stress management strategies, while providing counseling and treatment referrals for youth and families.

Equality California Institute

Fresno, Los Angeles, Madera, Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego and San Francisco counties
$200,000.00
To promote positive behavioral health outcomes in California’s Central Valley by strengthening access to treatment options for substance use disorder, overdose prevention resources, and stigma-free public education for all Californians through the Real Impact campaign.

Future Leaders of America

Santa Barbara and Ventura counties
$200,000.00
To promote positive health outcomes for youth across Santa Barbara and Ventura counties through peer education, public awareness campaigns, naloxone training for parents and caregivers, healing retreats for young men, and community partnerships to reduce opioid use disorder, increase awareness of life-saving overdose prevention and response services, decrease stigma, and strengthen referral pathways to treatment resources.

Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center of Orange County dba LGBTQ Center OC

Orange County
$200,000.00
To enhance health outcomes for communities across Orange County through the SPECTRUM program which will address the impact of substance use disorders among youth and community members by leveraging established community trust to provide outreach, evidence-based education and strengthened pathways to care.

Gender Health Center

El Dorado, Nevada, Sacramento and Yolo counties
$200,000.00
To better health outcomes by expanding access to life-saving overdose prevention and response services, treatment and recovery supports through community-based education, stigma reduction, enhanced partnerships, strengthened referral networks and compassionate, low-barrier services that connect individuals affected by opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use to accurate information and evidence-based care.

Harbor Area High Gain, Inc.

Los Angeles and Orange counties
$200,000.00
To improve health outcomes and prevent overdose-related harm and deaths across Los Angeles and Orange counties by expanding community-based opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use prevention, education, screening, and outreach activities in trusted settings while increasing access to treatment, recovery supports, and medications for opioid use disorder through awareness campaigns and strengthened referral pathways for marginalized communities.

Healing Los Angeles Together, Inc.

Los Angeles County
$150,000.00
To improve health outcomes through the expansion of opioid and stimulant prevention and education throughout South Los Angeles through trusted outreach, overdose prevention education, community workshops, lived-experience engagement and coordinated referrals to treatment and recovery resources, increasing awareness, reducing stigma, strengthening connections to care and improving health, safety and long-term well-being for individuals and families affected by substance use.

Health Access Foundation (Fiscal Sponsor for California LGBTQ Health and Human Services Network)

Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties
$200,000.00
To strengthen health outcomes for communities across Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties by increasing awareness of opioid and stimulant use disorders, reducing stigma through community-informed educational materials, social media campaigns, trainings and workshops, strengthening overdose prevention and response efforts, and expanding access to treatment and support services.

HIV Education and Prevention Project of Alameda County (HEPPAC) (Fiscal Sponsor for West Oakland Punks with Lunch)

Alameda County
$200,000.00
To support positive health outcomes for individuals in West Oakland impacted by opioid and stimulant use disorder through street-based community outreach, overdose prevention and response education and sharing of resources, to promote engagement, reduce barriers, reduce overdose deaths, and enhance access to treatment or other supportive services, including navigating opioid use disorder.

Homeless Children’s Network

San Francisco County
$200,000.00
To strengthen health outcomes in San Francisco County by expanding outreach and education on opioid, stimulant and concurrent substance use disorders through the Jabali Substance Use Disorder Awareness & Education Campaign Expansion Initiative, including community education presentations, public awareness campaigns, stigma-reducing storytelling, service linkages and strengthened treatment referral pathways that connect youth, families, adults and seniors to treatment and peer-led supports, and reduce barriers to care.

HOPE in the Valley

Kern County
$100,000.00
To promote positive behavioral health outcomes through outreach and education, expansion of street level engagement, stigma reduction activities, and warm handoff referral pathways to treatment for individuals in Kern County.

Huckleberry Youth Programs, Inc.

Marin and San Francisco counties
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes among youth in San Francisco and Marin counties via the Substance Use Prevention, Education and Referral (SUPER) Project, which will include information about opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use risks in current school education materials, in conjunction with existing youth health centers and trusted youth-serving partnerships.

Hyde Street Community Services

San Francisco County
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes across San Francisco County by reducing stigma, increasing early identification, and expanding access to opioid use disorder and other treatment through opioid use disorder/stimulant use disorder education, screening, overdose prevention, and referrals.

Impact Sac

Sacramento and Yolo counties
$100,000.00
To promote positive health outcomes in Sacramento and Yolo counties through youth advocates across three cohorts, creating pro-social opportunities, advancing health equity, and supporting evidence-informed solutions that strengthen overdose prevention and foster healthier, safer communities.

Inspire Together

Los Angeles County
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for youth in Los Angeles who are exiting juvenile detention by addressing the social determinants of health and intersections with substance use through workshops, peer-led stigma reduction campaigns and connections to medications for addiction treatment and recovery services with the aim to increase awareness, reduce barriers to care, and promote holistic wellness.

Institute for Public Strategies

San Diego County
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for communities in San Diego County through trusted community messengers and CHWs, peer-led outreach and storytelling, overdose prevention education, and coordinated referrals and navigation to medications for addiction treatment and behavioral health services.

Jail Guitar Doors

Los Angeles County
$195,175.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and increase substance use education, reduce stigma, and expand access to treatment in Los Angeles County through youth-led outreach, music and film messaging, social media campaigns, naloxone training, and stronger treatment referral pathways.

Kee-Cha-E-Nar Corporation

Del Norte and Humboldt counties
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes in Del Norte and Humboldt counties through prevention education, workforce and mentor training, treatment navigation, community outreach, stigma reduction, wellness planning, and stronger connections to behavioral health and opioid use disorder services to improve treatment access, recovery and long-term wellness.

Kings Partnership for Prevention, Inc.

Kings County
$180,000.00
To improve health outcomes in Kings County for youth, families, educators, professionals and underserved communities through evidence-informed prevention education, community outreach, stigma reduction campaigns, trusted community partnerships, overdose prevention and response education, and coordinated referrals to treatment and recovery services.

Kno’Qoti Native Wellness, Inc.

Glenn and Lake counties
$100,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes across Lake and Glenn counties by youth prevention leadership, providing school- and community-based substance use education, reducing stigma, connecting youth and families to behavioral health and treatment resources through trusted partnerships and warm referrals.

Kutturan Chamoru Foundation (Fiscal Sponsor for Southern California Pacific Islander Community Response Team (SoCal PICRT))

Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties
$125,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes across Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties by expanding opioid and stimulant use prevention and education, reducing stigma, strengthening connections to treatment and recovery resources, and increasing access to healing-centered behavioral health supports through community partnerships and treatment navigation.

Latino Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services of San Mateo County

Tulare County
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes among youth, families and communities in Tulare County by training youth, parents and caregivers as Community Promotores who expand substance use prevention education, reduce stigma, increasing awareness of treatment, recovery supports and opioid use disorder, and strengthening screening, referrals, and connections to behavioral health and healthcare services.

LGBTQ+ Collaborative dba CalPride

Merced, Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes across Stanislaus, Merced and Tuolumne counties by expanding peer-led prevention, education, stigma reduction, resource navigation and treatment referrals while increasing awareness of evidence-based care including opioid use disorder, reducing barriers to care, and strengthening connections to treatment and recovery supports through trusted community partnerships.

Lily of the Valley Emmanuel Church of Jesus Christ

Kings and Tulare counties
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes in Kings, Tulare and Fresno counties by providing opioid use disorder and stimulant use disorder prevention and education services including community outreach, life-saving overdose prevention and response services strategies, stigma reduction efforts, and strengthened referral pathways to care and treatment.

Little Manila Foundation dba Little Manila Rising

San Joaquin County
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes in San Joaquin County, particularly in South Stockton, by providing naloxone distribution, life-saving overdose prevention and response services supplies, treatment and recovery referrals, and community education while strengthening care coordination, reducing stigma and improving health outcomes for all community members.

Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Los Angeles County
$200,000.00
To improve health outcomes and reduce opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use and overdose in Los Angeles County by expanding peer-led outreach, substance use screening, naloxone distribution, stigma reduction education and provider training through LACADA’s certified Peer Recovery Support Coaches, while strengthening connections to treatment, including medications for addiction treatment, through established referral partnerships that increase access to care and support long-term recovery.

Lyon-Martin Community Health Services

San Francisco County
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for low-income and unhoused individuals in the Bay Area by expanding substance use prevention education, stigma reduction, crisis intervention, and connections to treatment, including medications for addiction treatment.

Marshall Medical Center

El Dorado County
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes in rural El Dorado County by reducing stigma and preventing opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance-related harm through evidence-based anti-bias education, community overdose prevention, behavioral health workforce support, and expedited treatment referral pathways that increase treatment engagement, retention and referrals.

Micah’s Hugs

Marin, Napa and Sonoma counties
$95,000.00
To save lives and promote well-being in youth across Sonoma, Napa, and Marin counties by delivering middle school, high-school, and college programming that includes lived-experience fentanyl and opioid prevention education and naloxone training, hosting community workshops, wellness fairs, and outreach events, launching a bilingual stigma reduction storytelling campaign, distributing naloxone, and connecting families to behavioral health, treatment, and recovery services.

Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project

Ventura County
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes among migrant communities in Ventura County by expanding substance use prevention and education, reducing stigma, strengthening referral pathways and warm handoffs, and increasing connections to behavioral health and substance use treatment services through community-informed outreach and education.

Multi-Ethnic Collaborative of Community Agencies

Orange County
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and reduce opioid overdoses and deaths in Orange County through referrals and treatment, providing customized substance use disorder services centered around client choice and substance use disorder outreach in non-traditional spaces, as well as co-creating a goal-oriented case management tool that increases help-seeking, strengthens connections to treatment and supports sustained recovery.

National Health Foundation

Los Angeles and Ventura counties
$200,000.00
To strengthen health outcomes for people experiencing homelessness and other vulnerable community members in Los Angeles and Ventura counties by expanding opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use prevention, education, and early intervention services through staff training, guest workshops, community outreach, individualized referral support and stigma reduction efforts that increase awareness, strengthen treatment referral pathways, and improve access to care and recovery resources.

Native Directions, Inc.

San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties
$200,000.00
To support positive health outcomes in San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties through opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use prevention, education and treatment referrals, mobile outreach education and education kit distribution, education workshops, hybrid townhalls featuring opioid use disorder/stimulant use disorder professionals, and an anti-stigma storytelling campaign.

Native Sisters Circle

Sacramento, Yolo and Statewide
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and provide rooted prevention, education and healing-centered services addressing opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use among all communities in Sacramento County and parts of Yolo County through peer-led talking circles, intergenerational workshops, community outreach, and trauma-informed support while strengthening referral pathways to treatment.

Neighborhood Wellness Foundation

Sacramento County
$200,000.00
To support stronger behavioral health connections and fewer substance-related deaths in Sacramento County, specifically for unhoused neighbors, justice-impacted individuals, students, parents, professionals and faith communities, through the implementation of trauma-educated Healing Circles, shared education, and a Student Advisory Board and daily awareness campaign.

New Road Foundation

Los Angeles County
$193,000.00
To improve health outcomes for residents of Los Angeles County’s Antelope Valley region by using trusted messengers with lived experience to provide opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use outreach and education and connections to treatment, medications for opioid use disorder, behavioral health services and recovery supports.

North County LGBTQ Resource Center

San Diego County
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and reduce barriers to medications for addiction treatment for communities in Northern San Diego County by disseminating educational prevention materials, anti-stigma campaigning and connection to treatment services.

Oakland LGBTQ Community Center

Alameda County
$200,000.00
To improve health outcomes for individuals of Alameda County by providing stimulant and other substance use outreach, education, care management, counseling referrals, HIV/STI services and other holistic services.

One in Long Beach, Inc. dba The LGBTQ Center Long Beach

Los Angeles and Orange counties
$100,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and foster opioid use disorder, stimulant use disorder, and substance use disorder awareness in Long Beach through a public awareness campaign, overdose prevention kit distribution and community education.

One New Heartbeat, Inc.

Alameda, San Mateo and Statewide
$195,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes across Alameda and San Mateo counties, addressing priority areas of overdose prevention, fentanyl awareness, polysubstance risks and treatment referral navigation through weekly education, digital/narrative media campaigns, jail and detox linked outreach, peer navigation, and partnerships with Horizon Treatment Services and statewide referral partner CanAm Interventions.

Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance, Inc.

Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for communities in Orange and Los Angeles counties by providing opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use prevention education, and reducing stigma through community-driven outreach, training trusted messengers and connecting individuals to care through community health workers.

Organization for Research & Community Development Global, Inc.

Sacramento and San Joaquin counties
$200,000.00
To support positive behavioral health outcomes among underserved residents of San Joaquin and Sacramento counties through community education, stigma reduction led by trusted messengers, naloxone training and distribution, and supported referrals to opioid use disorder and behavioral health treatment to improve understanding of substance use disorders, reduce stigma toward people who use drugs and connect more residents to timely care.

Oroville Southside Community Improvement Association

Butte County
$200,000.00
To improve health outcomes for residents in Oroville, with a focus on South Oroville, through prevention education, naloxone training and distribution, and warm referrals to treatment and recovery support for individuals and families experiencing homelessness, housing instability, poverty and substance use.

Pacific Islander Health Partnership

Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for families in Southern California through opioid and stimulant prevention education, community events, and storytelling and artist-rendered campaigns to increase awareness and strengthen pathways to treatment.

Painted Brain

Alameda, Contra Costa and Los Angeles counties
$200,000.00
To improve health outcomes for youth and adults across Los Angeles, Alameda and Contra Costa counties by training Certified Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialists and Community Health Workers to deliver prevention education, overdose awareness, outreach, resource navigation and warm handoffs through trusted community spaces, creative workshops, storytelling, open mic events and the Art Cart, connecting participants to behavioral health, substance use treatment, medications for addiction treatment and recovery support services while improving early engagement, access to care and long term recovery outcomes.

Passion and Purpose Ministries

San Joaquin County
$125,000.00
To promote positive behavioral health outcomes for youth and unhoused community members in San Joaquin County using evidence-based and public health strategies for community outreach and prevention education, including workshops, presentations and informational campaigns addressing overdose prevention, stigma, and risks of injury and disease, while strengthening referral pathways through resource and referral assistance to treatment, including medications for addiction treatment.

Pomona Pride Center, Inc. dba Pomona Valley Pride

Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes, prevent opioid use disorder and stimulant use disorder and reduce disorder rates in community members of Los Angeles and San Bernadino counties through self-expression, building coping mechanisms and increasing linkages to treatment through art therapy and educational workshops.

Public Health Institute (Fiscal Sponsor for FACES for the Future Coalition)

Alameda, Sacramento and San Francisco counties
$200,000.00
To improve health outcomes and prevent opioid, stimulant and other substance use-related harms among youth across Alameda, San Francisco and Sacramento counties by engaging 100 Public Health Youth Corps teens as prevention leaders through youth-centered training, peer and community education, overdose response and naloxone administration training, and referrals to treatment and support services, increasing knowledge of substance use disorders, awareness of available resources, and confidence in connecting peers and community members to care.

Public Health Institute (Fiscal Sponsor for Population Health Innovation Lab)

Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama and Trinity counties
$200,000.00
To support positive behavioral health protective factors and reduce mortality from opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use across eleven rural North State counties by convening a community of practice, where paraprofessionals are trained in Single Session Consultation, Open Doors, Safe Spaces, and related prevention and education methods to share and apply effective practices in their own settings, strengthening referral pathways to opioid use disorder and treatment services, reducing stigma toward people who use drugs, and increasing access to care for people affected by substance use.

Queer Humboldt

Humboldt, Del Norte, Mendocino and Trinity counties
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for people with/at risk of developing opioid use disorder/stimulant use disorder/substance use disorder in the Redwood Coast region and neighboring rural Indigenous Lands through strategic prevention education, community outreach, case management, and improved access to treatment and treatment options.

Radio Bilingue, Inc.

Fresno, Humboldt, Imperial, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Mariposa, Mendocino, Merced, Modoc, Monterey, Riverside, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Siskiyou, Stanislaus and Tulare counties
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for Californians across 22 counties by increasing awareness, knowledge and understanding of opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use disorders and their relationship to mental and physical health, promote prevention, treatment, recovery and overdose response information, reduce stigma, address family and community impacts, and connect individuals and families facing these challenges with expert information, resources and support.

Roots Community Health Foundation

Alameda County
$200,000.00
To enhance health outcomes across Alameda County by expanding outreach, substance use prevention education, stigma reduction and coordinated treatment referrals through Roots Community Health’s Street Team Outreach Medical Program (STOMP), increasing access to care, strengthening community connections and supporting recovery for individuals disproportionately impacted by opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use.

S2Savers

Stanislaus County
$100,000.00
To promote health and recovery for people in Stanislaus, Merced and San Joaquin counties by conducting outreach events, educational workshops, community presentations and one-on-one navigation, and partnering with healthcare providers, behavioral health agencies, schools, faith-based organizations and community partners to strengthen referral pathways, reduce stigma and improve access to medications for addiction treatment, behavioral health services and recovery support.

SAC Connect

Sacramento County
$188,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes in the Greater Sacramento Area by connecting individuals and families affected by opioid and stimulant use disorders to education, resources, treatment and support services through outreach, referrals and care navigation.

Sacramento LGBT Community Center

Sacramento County
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes in Greater Sacramento by increasing awareness of opioid use disorder and substance use disorder, addressing stigma, and strengthening pathways to care and treatment services through outreach and education, resource navigation and service referral/linkage, recovery support, and provider training.

Safe Passages

Alameda County
$200,000.00
To improve health outcomes for Alameda County’s most vulnerable youth and families by expanding substance use prevention education, reducing stigma through youth-led engagement, increasing community awareness of opioid and stimulant use disorders, strengthening workforce knowledge, and connecting high-need individuals to treatment and supportive services.

Salt + Light Works

Tulare County
$200,000.00
To provide responsive opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use prevention education, stigma reduction, community outreach and treatment navigation throughout Tulare County using trusted peer outreach workers, relevant education, community workshops, wellness events and coordinated referral partnerships to increase community understanding of substance use disorders, strengthen connections to evidence-based treatment and recovery resources, reduce stigma, and improve health outcomes for underserved communities disproportionately impacted by substance use.

San Francisco AIDS Foundation

San Francisco County
$200,000.00
To promote positive behavioral health outcomes in San Francisco County through a series of community education workshops, a part-time Community Mobilization Educator position, and coordinated outreach connecting participants to substance use treatment and support services to strengthen understanding, reduce stigma and improve referral pathways to care.

Sister to Sister 2, Inc., dba Serenity House

Alameda County
$200,000.00
To improve health outcomes for individuals and families, particularly unhoused and underserved residents, in Alameda County through peer-led community wellness events, bilingual youth prevention workshops, warm referrals to trusted providers, and a lived-experience storytelling initiative that reduces stigma and promotes recovery.

Social Advocates for Youth San Diego

San Diego County
$200,000.00
To support the behavioral health of transition-age youth at community colleges across San Diego County through campus outreach, peer ambassador-led education, stigma reduction campaigns, naloxone education and distribution, and coordinated partnerships with treatment providers to increase awareness of substance use risks, prevent overdoses, promote healthier choices, reduce stigma, and strengthen timely connections to treatment and recovery services.

Social Model Recovery Systems, Inc.

Los Angeles County
$200,000.00
To improve health outcomes for justice-involved individuals and people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County, specifically Boyle Heights and Skid Row, by expanding access to substance use prevention education, reducing stigma through community wellness sessions and outreach events, and strengthening connections to substance use treatment, behavioral health, and supportive services through needs assessments and warm handoffs provided through the Community Outreach Court program.

Somali Family Service of San Diego

San Diego County
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for all communities in San Diego County through activities that increase understanding of substance use, strengthen treatment referrals, and decrease stigma, such as outreach, training, community engagement, educational workshops, de-stigmatization videos, Narcan distribution, referral network expansion and treatment referrals and navigation.

Stonewall Alliance of Chico

Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Nevada, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity and Yuba counties
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes across 12 rural Northern California counties through peer navigation, cross-county partnerships, outreach, community-based education, warm referrals and handoffs, transportation support and formal partnerships with treatment providers.

Sun Street Centers

Monterey, San Benito and San Luis Obispo counties
$200,000.00
To better behavioral health outcomes in Monterey County by providing school and community-based opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use education, family engagement activities, prevention workshops, outreach events, resource navigation, and coordinated referrals to behavioral health and substance use treatment services, increasing community awareness of substance use risks and treatment options, reducing stigma associated with seeking help and strengthening access to resources.

Sunday Friends Foundation

Santa Clara County
$200,000.00
To build positive behavioral health outcomes for low-income families in Santa Clara County via the Wellness in Bloom Community-Led Expansion Model, addressing opioid and stimulant use by blending Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) with a peer-led “Train-the-Trainer” model to break down stigma and build a network of support, achieved by hosting listening sessions; mapping community strengths; and having health promotoras and peer ambassadors mobilize their communities through workshops, outreach and warm handoffs, connecting people to Mutual Aid Navigators or behavioral health treatment partners.

The Amelia Ann Adams Whole Life Center

San Joaquin County
$200,000.00
To strengthen behavioral health outcomes in Stockton communities through the B.L.O.W. Project (Believe. Learn. Overcome. Win), which trains young adults with lived experience through a fellowship to design and deliver responsive education and peer-led engagement, and partners with trusted local institutions to develop wellness ambassadors who provide outreach, reduce stigma and connect people to care.

The Black Resiliency Project

Butte, Colusa, Humboldt, Shasta and Tehama counties
$200,000.00
To promote positive health outcomes for residents of Butte County and surrounding rural areas impacted by opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use through expanded prevention education, naloxone training and distribution, stigma reduction, youth leadership, Pop-Up Wellness Hubs, Community Resiliency Builder outreach and warm referrals to medications for addiction treatment providers.

The Cambodian Family

Orange County
$200,000.00
To increase positive behavioral health outcomes for all Orange County residents by training community health workers, family support advocates and trusted community leaders to integrate evidence-based substance use prevention and referrals into their outreach, implementing educational workshops and stigma reduction campaigns, and sharing knowledge of prevention strategies and treatment options, including medications for opioid use disorder and available community resources.

The Happier Life Project

Imperial, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties
$200,000.00
To empower individuals and families in Riverside and San Bernardino counties to lead healthier lives through increased access to opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use prevention and recovery services, achieved through community education, peer outreach, overdose prevention, resource navigation, warm handoffs and the Voices of Hope storytelling initiative.

The San Diego LGBT Community Center dba The Center

San Diego County
$200,000.00
To address opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use across San Diego County by expanding training for service providers on opioid use disorder, stimulant use disorder, and polysubstance use prevention and care, updating a countywide stigma reduction campaign disseminated through social media and in-person outreach, and strengthening referral pathways to treatment including medications for addiction treatment, to increase community awareness, reduce stigma toward people who use drugs and connect more San Diegans to evidence-based care.

The TransLatin@ Coalition

Los Angeles County
$200,000.00
To support behavioral health within Los Angeles County communities through a community ambassador initiative that recruits and trains trusted community messengers to deliver outreach and education that connects people to opioid and stimulant use prevention resources and overdose response resources.

Union of Pan Asian Communities (UPAC)

San Diego County
$200,000.00
To improve community health outcomes related to opioid and stimulant use disorders by increasing prevention knowledge, treatment access and referral support through community health worker outreach in San Diego neighborhoods with the highest overdose rates.

United Way of Merced County (FS for Binational of Central California)

Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced and Tulare counties
$200,000.00
To strengthen protective factors and improve behavioral health outcomes against opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use across Fresno, Madera, Merced, Kings, Kern and Tulare counties by deploying Promotores de Salud and Community Health Workers to incorporate prevention education, screening, early identification and warm referrals into outreach programs.

United Way of Northern California

Butte, Glenn, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou and Tehama counties
$200,000.00
To empower residents of Siskiyou, Shasta, Tehama, Butte, Glenn and Plumas counties experiencing opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use disorders with barrier-free, equitable access to recovery support by providing education, warm referrals to treatment, including medications for addiction treatment, provider training, a stigma reduction campaign, community outreach and a free, confidential, 24-hour 211 helpline.

United Way of San Joaquin County

San Joaquin County
$200,000.00
To improve health outcomes and expand equitable access to substance use prevention, treatment and recovery services for underserved residents across San Joaquin County by strengthening community-based organizations through Medi-Cal capacity building, technical assistance, standardized closed-loop referral systems and a specialized Community Health Worker workforce, increasing care coordination, enhancing access to opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use services, and supporting sustainable community health infrastructure.

United Way of San Joaquin County (Fiscal Sponsor for San Joaquin Pride Center)

San Joaquin County
$200,000.00
To support positive behavioral health outcomes in San Joaquin County through education, overdose prevention training, stigma reduction initiatives, early identification and referral services, provider capacity building, and community outreach that improves behavioral health knowledge, strengthens connections to care and expands access to prevention resources.

Valley Health Associates

Monterey and San Benito counties
$200,000.00
To promote the behavioral health, well-being and recovery of people who use opioids, stimulants or who engage in polysubstance use in Monterey and San Benito counties by expanding community-based prevention, outreach and education activities, stigma reduction campaigns, referral pathways with schools, government agencies, healthcare organizations and the justice system, distributing naloxone and life-saving education, and connecting individuals to medications for addiction treatment, counseling and peer support through a whole-person, whole-community approach.

Valley Health Foundation (Fiscal Sponsor for The Q Corner)

Santa Clara County
$200,000.00
To strengthen health outcomes and proven life-saving initiatives in Santa Clara County for people that use methamphetamine, opioids or a combination of both, by holding supportive gatherings and events, developing and distributing accessible educational content, conducting outreach broadly to all sectors of our region, and training community members and providers on stigma reduction and substance use education.

Valley Onward

Merced and Stanislaus counties
$200,000.00
To promote healthy outcomes for the communities in Merced and Stanislaus counties through the implementation of community conversations, listening sessions, focus groups, life-saving overdose prevention and response education, stigma reduction activities, and connections to prevention, medications for addiction treatment, recovery and support services through trusted Community Health Workers.

Vista Community Clinic

San Diego County
$136,000.00
To support positive health outcomes for at-risk and low-income community members in North San Diego County through direct community engagement and relationship-building, achieved through outreach at high-traffic sites, distribution of educational materials within the community, educational presentations at partner organizations, creation and launch of social media and public awareness campaigns as well as the development of a referral protocol that facilitates warm handoffs and connects individuals to treatment.

Wellness Equity Institute

Riverside and San Bernardino counties
$200,000.00
To improve health outcomes amongst people in Riverside and San Bernardino counties impacted by homelessness, behavioral health conditions, housing instability and other social determinants of health through Street Medicine programming, resource navigation support from Community Health Workers and Peer Recovery Navigators, opioid use disorder, stimulant use disorder prevention education disseminated by Community Ambassadors, and warm referrals to medications for addiction treatment.

Whole Person Care Clinic

Imperial and Sacramento counties
$200,000.00
To support the behavioral health of individuals experiencing homelessness and complex physical and behavioral health needs in Sacramento and Imperial Valley, through the expansion of Community Care Campuses and street medicine and outreach, while providing staff training on integrating substance use education, overdose prevention and treatment navigation into their workflows to improve access to care.

Women of Color On the Move

Alameda, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Sacramento and San Francisco counties
$110,000.00
To improve the behavioral health, safety and resilience of underserved and disproportionately affected communities in Sacramento, El Dorado, Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco counties through community outreach, evidence-based education, peer navigation, stigma reduction campaigns, community workshops, health fairs and partnerships with behavioral health and treatment providers.

Young Women’s Freedom Center

Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco and Santa Clara counties
$200,000.00
To support long-term health, healing, and self-determination of system-impacted people in Northern California by strengthening protective factors against opioid use disorder, stimulant use disorder, and polysubstance use through relationship-centered prevention education, overdose prevention services, peer leadership, behavioral health partnerships and treatment navigation.

Youth Spirit Artworks

Alameda County
$200,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for youth and young adults ages 14-25 in Alameda County by providing individualized outreach, peer-led workshops, overdose prevention, and warm handoffs to care while engaging the broader community through education and youth-led stigma reduction campaigns.