County of Westchester - File #: 110897

• File #: 110897
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 4/9/2025
• Meeting Body: Board of Acquisition and Contract
• On agenda: 4/17/2025
• Final action: 4/17/2025
• Title: Community Mental Health - Enter into an agreement with Mental Health Empowerment Project, Inc. ("MHEP"), pursuant to which MHEP will assist DCMH in co-facilitating the Fresh Start program with the Westchester County District Attorney's Office, by providing a co-facilitator for a 3-hour program, which is to be delivered between sixty (60) and sixty-five (65) times per year, to low-level first time offenders, focusing on rehabilitation instead of incarceration for certain types of crimes, to avoid recidivism and improve peoples' lives, commencing retroactively on 1/1/25 - 12/31/25, for a total not-to-exceed amount of $40,000.

Date	Action By	Action	Result
4/17/2025	Board of Acquisition and Contract	approved	Pass

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Community Mental Health - Enter into an agreement with Mental Health Empowerment Project, Inc. (“MHEP”), pursuant to which MHEP will assist DCMH in co-facilitating the Fresh Start program with the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office, by providing a co-facilitator for a 3-hour program, which is to be delivered between sixty (60) and sixty-five (65) times per year, to low-level first time offenders, focusing on rehabilitation instead of incarceration for certain types of crimes, to avoid recidivism and improve peoples’ lives, commencing retroactively on 1/1/25 - 12/31/25, for a total not-to-exceed amount of $40,000.

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M. Orth