For the past five years, Clinica Sierra Vista’s Street Medicine team has provided consistent care for the unhoused community. For one of the team members, this outreach work is full-circle.
- Video shows a look inside a morning with Clinica Sierra Vista’s street medicine team. Weekly, they pack up trucks before sunrise to provide care to the unhoused population in Bakersfield.
- One of the team members says he’s able to bring a unique perspective to the team: he spent over three years unhoused.
- For the past five years, the street medicine team has provided care ranging from managing conditions and distributing food and water to harm reduction and connecting with substance abuse counselors.
BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT:
Once a week, a team from Clinica Sierra Vista packs up their trucks and drives down to the riverbed. In the five years since the street medicine team started, they’ve been able to help save lives and provide care for a vulnerable population.
“Back then, we were walking with a wagon and backpacks,” Scott Dopp said. “Now, we’ve upgraded to two trucks. We’ve come a long way.”