BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — After months of meetings with advocacy leaders across the nation, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services released a national toolkit aimed at addressing homelessness crisis and addiction services.
Joined with HHS, was the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The toolkit was announced late last week in San Diego, where Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., HUD Secretary Scott Turner and Sara Carter, director of the ONDCP, were in attendance.
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But also in attendance was Mission at Kern’s Executive Director Carlos Baldovinos…