The federal government has now named the eight communities that will receive money from STREETS, a new program meant to bring addiction and mental health treatment directly to people living on the street. Each will get $3 million a year for four years, for a combined $96 million.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the recipients Oct. 2 in Houston. The HHS release lists the city health departments of Houston and Detroit, Miami-Dade County, the Montgomery County, Ohio, Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board, the city of Huntington in West Virginia, the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma, Robeson County in North Carolina and Tangipahoa Parish in Louisiana.
