Opioid and Stimulant Use Disorder Prevention and Education for Communities of Color Award List (July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2027)

The MAT 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
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and reduce substance use disorder-related death and morbidity of BIPOC individuals in Solano County through trauma-informed outreach, education and engagement, streamlined referral pathways, and training around opioid and substance use disorder.

AHN Foundation

Los Angeles and Orange counties
$301,772.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes of BIPOC mothers in Los Angeles and Orange counties through peer leaders and trusted messengers providing community-based outreach, leading health education sessions, and connecting women to supportive treatment services for maternal health and opioid, stimulant and substance use disorders.

Bayview Hunters Point Foundation

San Francisco County
$281,676.00
To improve the health outcomes of Black and Latinx residents in San Francisco County through focused outreach, public messaging, community listening sessions, and expanded referral pathways for opioid and stimulant use disorder treatment.

Bienestar Human Services

Los Angeles County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and ensure culturally responsive, whole-person care for Spanish-speaking Latine and other BIPOC individuals disproportionately impacted by OUD, StUD, and/or co-occurring SUDs in Los Angeles County by conducting focused outreach, hiring community health educators, developing and distributing educational materials that reduce stigma, and providing linkages and referrals to treatment and care services.

Black Youth Leadership Project

Sacramento County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for Black communities in Sacramento County through the expansion of youth advocacy and mentorship by leading workshops and trainings, distributing educational and prevention kits around opioid and stimulant use, launching a social media campaign to lift up stories and voices around harm reduction, and partnering with local schools, youth-serving agencies and faith-based institutions to reduce stigma, raise awareness and increase access to MOUD and stimulant use disorder treatment.

Center for Urban Excellence

Contra Costa and Solano counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for youth of color in Solano and Contra Costa counties through empowering youth leaders and community health workers, delivering culturally responsive harm‑reduction outreach, education, and referral services, engaging people who use drugs, hosting trauma-informed workshops, and implementing innovative community-led strategies to dismantle the stigma around opioid use and strengthen pathways to treatment.

El Concilio of San Mateo County (Fiscal Sponsor for Daly City Youth Health Center)

San Mateo County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes of BIPOC individuals in San Mateo County through a focus on youth empowerment, focused outreach, culturally responsive education, and improved access to overdose prevention tools and treatment referrals for opioid and stimulant use disorders.

El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center

Riverside and San Bernardino counties
$399,688.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for BIPOC individuals in San Bernardino and Riverside counties by reducing opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use and connecting high-risk populations with much-needed care through training of community health workers and youth ambassadors, elevating voices of communities of color through community participatory projects, and a countywide opioid prevention campaign.

EmpowHer Institute, Inc.

Los Angeles County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for BIPOC girls and their families in Los Angeles County through the use of mentoring, social-emotional learning, leadership development, youth-led projects, and enhanced family engagement to raise awareness about opioid and stimulant use and alternative stress management strategies.

Future Leaders of America

Santa Barbara and Ventura counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for Latinx and Indigenous youth and families across Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties by implementing a culturally responsive, youth-led opioid and stimulant prevention initiative through peer education, public awareness campaigns, naloxone training for parents, culturally rooted healing retreats for young men, and bilingual outreach.

Healing Los Angeles Together, Inc.

Los Angeles County
$399,378.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and build trusting, culturally relevant connections in Black, Indigenous, and Latinx communities across Los Angeles County by training community champions and peer navigators to deliver trauma informed outreach, harm reduction education, and streamlining referrals to StUD and other support services, thereby reducing stigma, strengthening care pathways, and empowering individuals.

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

Alameda County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for BIPOC individuals in Alameda County through the increase of MAT service awareness and referrals, expansion of naloxone distribution and harm reduction education via translation services, collaborative trainings and drug checking, and lifting up the voices of BIPOC people who use drugs in a community narrative project.

HOPE in the Valley

Kern County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for Black, Hispanic, Indigenous, and AAPI communities in Kern County through culturally informed, empowering approaches to prevention, education, and care linkages such as bilingual trainings on overdose response, MOUD, and stimulant use disorder, distribution of resources, creation of narrative podcasts and trilingual video series, and the development of community educational materials and curriculums.

Impact Sac

Sacramento and Yolo counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes of youth in Sacramento and Yolo counties through the creation of a trauma-informed, youth-led media and outreach campaign to address opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use that focuses on education, prevention and expanding access to healing-centered care.

Institute for Public Strategies

San Diego County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes of Latine and immigrant communities in San Diego County by engaging promotores and youth leaders to deliver bilingual outreach, trauma-informed education, harm reduction resources for opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use disorder, and increase connection to treatment services.

Jail Guitar Doors

Los Angeles County
$399,994.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes of BIPOC youth in Los Angeles County through culturally appropriate, linguistically resonant messaging created by youth to expand community awareness around opioid and stimulant use, destigmatize seeking treatment, increase referral pathways for treatment and recovery services, and provide harm reduction naloxone training and distribution.

Kee-Cha-E-Nar Corporation

Del Norte and Humboldt counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes of court-involved tribal members and families in Del Norte and Humboldt counties through increased community awareness, expanded outreach, education, and training in various aspects of stigma and harm reduction to prevent opioid-related death, enhanced education and training for service providers, and improved access to culturally appropriate treatment and recovery support systems.

Kings Partnership for Prevention, Inc.

Kings County
$334,916.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes of BIPOC individuals in Kings County, especially in rural communities such as Avenal and Corcoran, through opioid and stimulant use disorder community events, stigma-reduction campaigns, youth engagement, naloxone training, and harm reduction kit distribution.

Kno’Qoti Native Wellness, Inc.

Colusa, Glenn, Lake and Mendocino counties
$387,890.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for tribal youth across Lake and Glenn counties by strengthening cultural identity and elevating traditional teachings and empowering youth leaders, developing indigenous-designed prevention materials, and engaging with the broader community to reduce stigma and raise awareness around opioid and stimulant use disorders.

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

Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander community in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties by empowering individuals, raising awareness about the risks of opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use, promoting prevention strategies, reducing stigma, and facilitating access to treatment and recovery resources.

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

Tulare County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for BIPOC and migrant farmworker communities in Tulare County by training youth and their parents to become promotoras who implement OUD and StUD prevention and education activities such as listening and focus group sessions, facilitate training institutes and curriculum learning, and participate and engage in community outreach events.

License to Freedom

San Diego County
$394,821.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for BIPOC refugee youth in San Diego County by providing culturally tailored education, peer support, intervention services, and advocacy around opioid and stimulant use disorder.

Lily of the Valley Emmanuel Church of Jesus Christ

Fresno, Kings and Tulare counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for BIPOC communities in Kings, Tulare, and Fresno counties by providing culturally and linguistically appropriate OUD and StUD prevention and education services including community outreach, harm reduction strategies, stigma reduction efforts, and strengthening referral pathways to care and treatment, including referrals for MAT.

Little Manila Foundation dba Little Manila Rising

San Joaquin County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and access to culturally responsive stimulant and opioids, use prevention resources for BIPOC and systems-impacted community members in South Stockton by providing naloxone distribution, harm reduction supplies, and referrals to behavioral health and MAT services.

Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project

Ventura County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for Indigenous migrant communities in Ventura County through the “Promotorx” model to assess community knowledge and barriers to treatment and care in order to launch an outreach campaign to increase awareness, reduce stigma, and expand access to opioid and substance use disorder care and treatment services.

Multi-Ethnic Collaborative of Community Agencies

Orange County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and reduce opioid overdoses and deaths for BIPOC communities in Orange County through referrals and treatment, providing customized SUD services centered around client choice and SUD outreach in non-traditional spaces, as well as connecting with individuals in communities of color who harbor stigma against receiving SUD services or are unaware their substance use is problematic.

Native Sisters Circle

Sacramento County and Statewide
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and provide culturally rooted prevention, education, and healing-centered services addressing opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use among BIPOC communities in Sacramento County, with a focus on urban Native youth and families, through peer-led talking circles, intergenerational workshops, community outreach, and trauma-informed support.

Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance, Inc.

Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities in Orange County by providing culturally and linguistically tailored opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use prevention education, and reducing stigma through community-driven outreach, and connecting individuals to care through community health workers.

Pacific Islander Health Partnership

Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for historically underserved Pacific Islander communities in Southern California through culturally tailored opioid and stimulant prevention education, community events, and storytelling campaigns to increase awareness and strengthen pathways to treatment.

Radio Bilingue, Inc.

Mariposa, Mendocino, Merced, Monterey, Riverside, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Siskiyou, Stanislaus and Tulare counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for immigrants and working-class Latinos in Central California, the Central Coast and Northern California by increasing knowledge and awareness of opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use through extensive radio outreach including call-in talk shows, features and creative PSAs in Spanish, English, Indigenous Mexican and Triqui languages focused on identifying OUD/StUD/PSUDs and addiction, safe use and overdose prevention and response, overcoming stigma, and family and community impacts and supports.

SAC Connect

Sacramento County
$360,386.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for BIPOC individuals and families in Sacramento County by providing resources and services to address opioid and stimulant use disorders including community outreach and prevention, and referrals and linkage to treatment and expanded education.

Salt + Light Works

Tulare County
$341,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and reduce stigma, increase awareness, and expand access to care for opioid and stimulant use disorders among BIPOC individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness in Tulare County, including the distribution of naloxone and educational materials, a stigma-reduction social media campaign, and quarterly events.

Sister to Sister 2, Inc. dba Serenity House

Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco counties
$399,852.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for BIPOC individuals in Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco counties by delivering focused, trauma-informed prevention, education, and outreach services around opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use disorders.

Somali Family Service of San Diego

San Diego County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes, decrease OUD and SUD and bolster individual and community knowledge in BIPOC refugee and immigrants communities in San Diego County through culturally and linguistically appropriate outreach, training, community engagement, educational workshops, de-stigmatization videos, and distribution of naloxone.

The Amelia Ann Adams Whole Life Center

San Joaquin County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for Stockton’s Black/African American residents impacted by opioid and stimulant use disorders by engaging young adults with lived experience to design a culturally responsive educational campaign that raises awareness, reduces stigma, and promotes healing.

The Black Resiliency Project

Butte, Colusa and Humboldt counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and access to culturally responsive harm reduction services while reducing stigma around substance use and treatment for BIPOC communities rural Butte, Colusa and Humboldt counties through peer-led outreach, workshops, and resource navigation.

The Cambodian Family

Orange County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for Southeast Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander, and other Orange County communities, through outreach and education on opioid and stimulant use disorders and the strengthening of referral pathways for treatment services.

The Happier Life Project

Imperial, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for Indigenous, Latino, and BIPOC communities across California’s Inland Empire by addressing the opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use crises, through culturally and linguistically responsive services that offer affirming recovery supports, including access to MOUD.

Union of Pan Asian Communities (UPAC)

San Diego County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for BIPOC communities in San Diego County by raising awareness of opioid and stimulant use disorders through expanded community outreach, destigmatizing educational content, and community engagement activities.

United Way of Northern California

Butte, Glenn, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou and Tehama counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and opioid and stimulant use disorder recovery for impacted BIPOC community members in Butte, Glenn, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou and Tehama counties by connecting individuals with vital resources, providing professional training opportunities, emphasizing harm reduction, collaborating with service providers and community partners, and by promoting holistic well-being and inclusivity in SUD recovery services.

Valley Health Associates

Monterey and San Benito counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes across Monterey and San Benito counties, with a focus on Latinx and Black communities, by expanding culturally responsive education, stigma-reducing campaigns, and treatment referrals to normalize MAT as part of a healthy lifestyle, challenge myths about methadone, and connect individuals to life-saving services.

Valley Onward

Merced and Stanislaus counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes among BIPOC communities in Madera, Merced and Stanislaus counties by increasing awareness, promoting early intervention, and connecting individuals to life-saving resources through culturally rooted and trusted community health worker outreach and workshops, bilingual education, stigma-reducing storytelling campaigns focused on opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use, and strengthening local referral pathways to care and treatment.

Wellness Equity Institute

Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino counties
$399,600.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for BIPOC communities in South Los Angeles, and Riverside and San Bernardino counties by raising community awareness and providing education around opioids and stimulants, while strengthening referral pathways to care and treatment, especially MOUD.

Young Women’s Freedom Center

Alameda, Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for BIPOC system-impacted young women and trans youth of all genders in Alameda, Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties through training that empowers them to educate and teach their peers and communities about harm reduction and opioid, stimulant, and polysubstance use in a trauma-informed, culturally relevant ways.

Youth Spirit Artworks

Alameda County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for BIPOC youth in Alameda County disproportionately impacted by substance use through peer-driven workshops, harm reduction groups, warm handoffs to care, youth-led stigma-reduction campaigns, and intergenerational mentorship to elevate youth leadership, shift narratives, and advance equitable, community-rooted recovery pathways.

Youth Transforming Justice (Fiscal Sponsor for Opening the World)

Marin County
$385,175.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for BIPOC youth in Marin County through a youth and peer-led team, delivering focused, trauma-informed prevention, education, and outreach services around opioid, stimulant and polysubstance use disorders and connection to treatment services.