Opioid & Stimulant Use Education and Outreach in Two-Spirit/LGBTQIA+ Communities 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) 4 grant and is administered and managed by The Center at Sierra Health Foundation.

Casita Feliz Latine LGBTQ+ Center

Fresno County
$201,750.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and empower the Latine LGBTQ+ community in Fresno with knowledge of OUD and StUD and pathways for treatment, while addressing the intersection of SUD and HIV/STIs, through bi-lingual culturally tailored outreach and educational campaigns utilizing focus groups, social media, provider trainings and partnerships, storytelling, peer educators, resources guides, and other strategies.

Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness

San Joaquin, Amador, Calaveras and Madera counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes, promote long-term recovery and reduce overdose amongst 2S/LGBTQIA+ individuals in Central California through overdose prevention education, distribution of harm reduction supplies, and warm referrals to SUD treatment providers.

Community Partners (Fiscal Sponsor for Latino Equality Alliance)

Los Angeles County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for queer and transgender adults of color in Boyle Heights, East, and Southeast Los Angeles through a LGBTQ+ nightlife-focused program that engages community ambassadors and sober social spaces that provide harm reduction, SUD education, workforce development and other holistic resources.

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

Riverside and San Bernardino counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for 2S/LGBTQIA+ youth in Riverside and San Bernadino counties by addressing intersectional barriers to opioid use disorder treatment through youth-centered workshops, social media campaigns, resource navigation, and formalized referrals to affirming treatment providers.

Equality California Institute

Fresno, Madera, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego and San Francisco counties
$400,000.00
To improve the behavioral health of 2S/LGBTQIA+ people across the state of California through stigma-free SUD education campaigns, harm reduction resource distribution, and the engagement of a Central Valley resource network led by a Central Valley LGBTQ+ Health Equity Coalition.

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

Orange County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for 2S/LGBTQIA+ communities in Orange County by strengthening OUD and StUD care and education via holistic and comprehensive services to communities that include treatment referrals, social media campaigns, harm reduction kits, and focused outreach guided by a 2S/LGBTQIA+ advisory board-led needs assessment.

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

Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties
$400,000.00
To increase positive behavioral health possibilities for 2S/LGBTQIA+ people in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernadino counties by investing in programming that educates, decreases stigma and creates referral pathways, through methods such as developing educational materials, designing outreach and engagement strategies, creating a social media campaign, providing trainings and community workshops, and strengthening partnerships with treatment centers.

Inspire Together

Los Angeles County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for 2S/LGBTQIA+ 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 MAT and recovery services with the aim to increase awareness, reduce barriers to care, and promote holistic wellness.

LGBTQ+ Collaborative dba CalPride

Stanislaus, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Amador and Mariposa counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes, foster healing, and increase knowledge and access to treatment for trans and nonbinary people of color who use drugs in Stanislaus, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Amador and Mariposa counties through peer-led outreach, navigation, social media, and community workshops.

Lyon-Martin Community Health Services

San Francisco County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for Trans, Non-Binary, Gender Non-Conforming, Intersex and LBQA+ people in the Bay Area by enhancing outreach, education, and linkage to behavioral health recovery services through the establishment of a 24/7 crisis intervention program, a culturally relevant media campaign, street outreach, referrals and navigational support.

North County LGBTQ Resource Center

San Diego County
$396,084.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and reduce barriers to MAT for 2S/LGBTQIA+ people in Northern San Diego County by providing short hotel stays, transportation support, hygiene supplies, outreach and educational interventions, and anti-stigma campaigning.

Oakland LGBTQ Community Center

Alameda County
$400,000.00
To improve health outcomes for the LGBTQ+ Black and Latinx community 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
$111,636.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and foster OUD, StUD, and SUD awareness amongst the 2S/LGBTQIA+ community of Long Beach through a public awareness campaign, harm reduction kit distribution, and community education.

Pomona Valley Pride

Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties
$390,540.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes, prevent OUD and StUD and reduce disorder rates in the 2S/LGBTQIA+ community of Los Angeles and San Bernadino counties through self-expression, building coping mechanisms, and increasing linkages to treatment through art therapy and educational workshops.

Queer Humboldt

Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and reduce incidence, duration, and severity of OUD, StUD and polysubstance use among 2S/LGBTQIA+ people in Humboldt County and neighboring rural indigenous lands through strategic education, community outreach, case management, improved access to treatment and increased culturally humble treatment options.

Sacramento LGBT Community Center

Sacramento County
$386,888.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for Sacramento 2S/LGBTQIA+ people, support their SUD recovery, and promote overall well-being through stigma-reducing messaging, service linkage and recovery support, cultural humility provider workshops, and outreach and education.

San Diego LGBT Community Center dba The Center

San Diego County
$398,327.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and encourage long-term recovery for 2S/LGBTQIA+ people in San Diego by educating service providers and tackling stigma through a communications campaign that uses both social media and in-person outreach methods.

San Francisco AIDS Foundation

San Francisco County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes for transgender and Spanish-speaking 2S/LGBTQIA+ people who use drugs in San Francisco, reduce overdose, and reduce harm associated with OUD and StUD through education and advocacy activities that will be implemented through community events, in-person engagement and expanded peer networks.

Stonewall Alliance of Chico

Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama and Trinity counties
$400,000.00
To promote behavioral health outcomes for rural, low income, and BIPOC 2S/LGBTQIA+ people across Northern California by building a regional harm reduction and recovery network that strengthens cross-county partnerships, delivers focused outreach, and distributes culturally relevant harm reduction materials.

The Source LGBT+ Center

Kings and Tulare counties
$399,950.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes of trans and non-binary adults in Tulare and Kings counties by building a sense of belonging and community connectedness, increasing awareness of harm reduction and safe use, and improving gender-affirming care which will be achieved by creating a Trans and Nonbinary SUD Treatment Task Force, training 300 providers, and educating at community events.

The TransLatin@ Coalition

Los Angeles County
$400,000.00
To bolster behavioral health outcomes, OUD and StUD knowledge and reduce harm associated with said disorders amongst transgender, gender expansive, and intersex people in Los Angeles County through focused community outreach and educational services, treatment connections, and stigma-reducing activities delivered through a trauma-informed, harm reduction lens.

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

San Joaquin County
$400,000.00
To improve behavioral health outcomes and foster healing for 2S/LGBTQIA+ individuals impacted by opioid and stimulant use in San Joaquin County by providing focused outreach through a bilingual peer-informed media campaign, professional multi-level provider training series, and recovery support services through SMART Recovery groups and referral pathways, with the intent to increase compassionate and culturally responsive services, reduce stigma and expand access to affirming recovery resources.

Valley Health (Fiscal Sponsor for The Q Corner)

Santa Clara County
$399,994.00
To promote behavioral health outcomes within the 2S/LGBTQIA+ communities of Santa Clara County and reduce opioid overdose risk by expanding educational resources into five additional languages, conducting focused outreach, and hosting low barrier supportive spaces where people can be connected to services and treatment.