Carlos Baldovinos traveled to San Diego on August 12 to celebrate the public release of a federal best practices toolkit aimed at addressing addiction treatment within the homeless community — a project he helped build from the ground up.
Baldovinos, executive director of the Mission at Kern County, was among roughly 22 professionals from across the country who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring to work with the Trump administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the nation’s drug czar to develop the toolkit.
“I didn’t get much notice. It was maybe 4 or 5 day notice about this unveiling that was gonna happen down in San Diego and, and I’m telling you this is something that we have worked towards, um, to get to that position of unveiling it to the public,” Baldovinos said…