US Health Department announces over $700 million to combat mental health, addiction, homelessness

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Source: Reuters

June 17, 2026 1:39 PM EDT Updated 2 hours ago


June 17 (Reuters) - U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday announced more than $700 million in new funding opportunities ​aimed at tackling mental illness, addiction and homelessness.

The ‌package includes a new $96 million grant program, Safety Through Recovery, Engagement, and Evidence-based Treatment and Support, or STREETS, which will award ​funding to eight communities, the Department of ​Health and Human Services said. Each community will be ⁠eligible for up to $3 million a year over four ​years.

The program is intended to help local governments build ​coordinated care systems for people experiencing homelessness who have substance use disorders, serious mental illness, or both.

HHS said the effort will ​bring together local governments, healthcare and housing providers, law ​enforcement agencies and courts. Kennedy announced the funding during a visit to ‌an ⁠Easterseals Michigan behavioral health clinic in Clinton Township, Michigan.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-health-department-announces-over-700-million-combat-mental-health-addiction-2026-06-17/

[Skittles]

1. what's the catch?

[ImNotGod]

3. probably the money he's using to build concentration camps to put anyone who needs help in. nt

[Skittles]

4. something is off

these fascist fucks do not care about ANYONE who needs assistance, ESPECIALLY the homeless and addicted

I'm suspecting some kind of grift.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

14. Yes- It's time to lower gas prices too. November is coming

And they think throwing the people little bones will work.

[efhmc]

2. But Iran is worth more.

[Solly Mack]

5. Another place, another time, that would sound good. Now it just sounds scary.

[S/V Loner]

6. If you disagree with...

The administration then you must be mentally ill and need to be removed from society.

[republianmushroom]

7. And a ballroom will cost 6 times this much or more.

[Buddyzbuddy]

8. And this is just in the Whitehouse...

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday announced more than $700 million in new funding opportunities ​aimed at tackling mental illness, addiction and homelessness."

[Wonder Why]

9. Correct. The only one he doesn't have is homelessness - not yet.

He's mentally ill.

He's addicted to power.

He still has our house to live in for a few more years unless he gets kicked out early.

[Maninacan]

10. Chump Change

Compared to the money that gets thrown around. Not even 1/2 a B2 bomber

[BettyBlueDot]

13. Millions for the peons, Billions for the 1%

Exactly.... appease the peons with the million "word" all the while stealing BILLIONS.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/17/nx-s1-5860739/iran-war-cost-oil-military-trade

[area51]

11. From the same guy

who wants to wean people off of antidepressants.

[flvegan]

12. To buy $700 million worth of Melania Trump's Ivermectin Kidney Enhancement Liniment

"Yooo jus rub it on yer boopies unt have a vunderful day!"

Allegedly cures all mental health ailments, addictions and homelessness quicker 'n a RFK, Jr Lady and the Tramp MAHA Special*

Because it's always about the grift with these folks.

*where you and your partner run a line of cocaine around a gas station toilet seat and go full snort from the back of the seat down both sides and around to the front, meeting simultaneously.

[nuxvomica]

15. The "Evidence-based Treatment" part sounds suspicious

Like they are begging the question, trying to suppress any argument that they are not evidence-based, because they probably won't be evidence-based at all. It's like "Truth Social", which is nothing but anti-social falsehoods. In a word, "Orwellian."

[maxsolomon]

16. Let's see, 300 billion for the Mullahs

is how much more than 700 million for the drug-addled homeless?

428.571428571 time more.

[DavidDvorkin]

17. I think the government is already doing a fine job of combating mental health.

[IbogaProject]

18. The GOP seeks to "Combat Mental Health"

Such an accurate headline.