Blog, Videos and Podcasts Videos Podcasts Blogs and other Media Highlights from the 2023 Service to America Medals gala On October 16, 2023 the Partnership for Public Service held the 22nd annual Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals gala at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC 2023 Sammies Fed Gov Today: Battling Opiod Crisis A program office inside the Department of Health and Human Services supports customized services all around the country to help deal with the opioid crisis. The program has touched more than two million people in 47 states and two territories. Megan Meacham, Director of the Rural Strategic Initiatives Division in the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy at the Health Resources and Services Administration at HHS, and her team are winners of the People’s Choice Award in this year’s Service to America Medals. 2023 Sammies, People's Choice Page header: Charles Bolden, former Administrator of NASA, interviewed backstage at the 2013 Sammies gala