***Correction: This is a conditional award. This is not a homeless service campus. It is a recovery campus serving people with substance use disorders to provide medication for addiction treatment, outpatient, and residential treatment services. If fully funded, this campus will not provide housing or mental health services.***
A Kern County nonprofit has been awarded a $27 million grant to help address homelessness in Kern County, with plans to build a campus-style facility offering housing, mental health services, and substance use disorder treatment.
The Department of Health Care Services awarded the grant to Hope in the Valley, a nonprofit founded nearly 3 years ago by Chief Financial Officer Carlos Herrera and his wife. The organization’s mission is to bring resources to communities where they are needed most…