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Public defender asks committee to approve PCCD grant‑funded social‑worker position to manage reentry and client needs
Summary
The county public defender told the finance committee a two‑year, fully funded PCCD grant would pay for a social worker to coordinate housing, transportation and other social services for indigent clients; committee moved the personnel request forward.
The Northampton County public defender asked the Finance Committee on June 17 to advance a personnel request for a grant‑funded social worker position.
The office said the position would be paid through a two‑year grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) and would be fully reimbursed during the grant period. The public defender described the role as a point person to coordinate housing, transportation and community resources so attorneys could spend more time on litigation. “We function almost as a social worker a lot of the time,” the public defender said,…
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