Turning Point of Central California — Kennemer Center
1101 Union Ave
Bakersfield, CA 93307
About Turning Point of Central California — Kennemer Center
Turning Point of Central California is an addiction treatment organization with locations throughout central California but this location in Bakersfield, California is unique. It’s called the Kennemer Center and is a special program through the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. This is a reentry program for incarcerated men to give them addiction treatment and other transitional services in the last months of their sentence.
Clients here get comprehensive services to give them the tools to build a stable and healthy life after their release so they’re less likely to reoffend. That includes drug and alcohol addiction treatment like they would get at a residential rehab along with mental health care.
The other reentry services in this program also help inmates to start building a fulfilling and low risk life after release. You can get help with job training and education as well as securing employment. They’ll help you secure housing too and reunite with your family and the community. Clients say that this program will benefit you to the extent that you’re willing to participate in it. As the saying goes, it works if you work it.