A grant that helped a Northern Virginia addiction recovery center offer resources to community members has been cut as part of cuts to federal spending.

Ginny Atwood, co-founder of The Chris Atwood Foundation, said she recently learned a multiyear, $200,000 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services has been “wiped out overnight.” It was COVID-related funding, Atwood said, and “they said COVID is over, so they took away that funding.”

Now, the Fairfax-based organization, which offers services to help people transition from active addiction to long-term recovery, is scrambling to figure out how to offset the loss of that money. The grant helped pay for the recovery community center and funded its recovery academy.

“We’re not going to turn the lights off tomorrow by any means,

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