The Virginia Department of Veterans Services (DVS) has opened Funding Round 6 of its Veteran Suicide Prevention and Opioid Addiction Services (SOS) Grant Program for FY 2027. The program supports community-based interventions for Virginia service members, veterans, and family members, with particular emphasis on high-risk and underserved populations.
Funding
$4,000,000 total funding is available. DVS anticipates approximately 25–40 awards, with individual awards from $75,000 to $200,000. The period of performance is 12 months, January 1 through December 31, 2027.
Deadline and submission
September 30, 2026 at 4:59 PM EST. Applications must be submitted electronically through the Virginia Department of Veterans Services Grant Portal. The question deadline is September 27, 2026 at 4:59 PM EST. Late applications will not be accepted.
Eligible applicants
Eligible applicants include Virginia-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, Veteran Service Organizations, Community Services Boards and mental health centers, tribal organizations, and state or local government entities. For-profit organizations are eligible only if they are active subrecipients that completed DVS RFA 5; DVS states this is the final cycle of for-profit eligibility. Only one eligible organization within a corporate or nonprofit group may apply.
Priority services
Priority areas include outreach to veterans at risk of suicide; baseline mental-health, suicide-risk, and substance-use screening; clinical treatment; case management; peer support; benefits navigation; innovative prevention therapies; caregiver support; rural service-member/veteran/family services; homelessness; justice-involved veterans; overdose prevention including naloxone distribution and training; and transition support from military to civilian life.
Compliance requirements
No matching funds are required. Applicants must have an active SAM.gov registration, no federal or state debt exclusions, and a valid Virginia business setup. Grantees must maintain appropriate financial controls, written grant-administration policies, conflict-of-interest policies, source documentation, and grant records.
Atlas assessment
Atlas Opportunity Score: 94/100. This is a strong Virginia behavioral-health and veteran-services opportunity because it is statewide, has no required match, expressly supports clinical services, mental-health and substance-use screening, rural services, overdose prevention, and justice-involved veterans, and provides a substantial applicant universe.
N9+ Fit Score: 54/100. N9+ should not be forced into this opportunity. The controlling NOFO expressly allows laptops, secure cell phones, and telehealth software licenses used strictly by project staff to deliver direct SMVF services, but it does not expressly authorize remote physical-examination hardware or remote patient monitoring devices. A legitimate N9+ role could arise only where an eligible applicant’s clinical model uses remote examination capabilities to support broader veteran care alongside the funded behavioral-health or substance-use work and DVS confirms the cost is allowable.
QC Healthcare: clinical-service support may present a stronger conditional fit than N9+ hardware, but Atlas has not verified that QC Healthcare independently satisfies the behavioral-health, substance-use, or applicant-eligibility requirements. The safest path is applicant-led, with Dr. Miltie/QC considered as a contractor or implementation partner only where the applicant’s project design and DVS rules permit it. Dr. Miltie should not be treated as a direct eligible for-profit applicant unless RFA 5 incumbent-subrecipient eligibility is independently verified.