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Committee approves Credible Messenger contract to add mentors at juvenile detention facility
Summary
The committee approved a one‑year comparable‑source (ComSource) contract with options to renew to bring a Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement program into the Juvenile Detention Facility (JDF); discussion covered hiring, training, family engagement and reporting.
Wayne County’s Health & Human Services Committee on Jan. 7 approved a one‑year comparable‑source contract (with two one‑year renewal options) with Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement to operate a credible‑messenger mentoring program at the Juvenile Detention Facility (JDF).
Melissa Fernandez, director of Juvenile and Youth Services, described Credible Messenger as a national, empirically based model studied by John Jay College and other institutions. The program was presented to the committee by county staff and by Clint Lacy (president and CEO of…
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