Elected officials and non-profits met in Dallas this week for a meeting on how they can work together on “issues plaguing North Texas.” The meeting at the organization, Homeward Bound, included 65 service providers and policy makers to talk about homelessness, drug use and jail overcrowding.
“An event like this allows us to bring providers from all over the state that are struggling with the same issues we’re all facing,” says Homeward Bound Executive Director Doug Denton. “In this county in particular, we’ve had crack cocaine, we’ve had a heroin epidemic, we’ve had a fentanyl epidemic, and we’re on the verge of a methamphetamine epidemic.”
Denton says young people have been affected especially hard…