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Council hears request to extend OnPoint counseling contract for violence-reduction program
Summary
City officials asked the council to extend an existing counseling agreement with OnPoint’s Project RISE to September to expand wraparound services for people affected by gun violence; staff said the program has enrolled about 13–20 clients and aims to reach 50, but no formal vote was recorded at the meeting.
City officials asked the Syracuse Common Council on an agenda item to extend an existing counseling agreement with OnPoint’s Project RISE through September so the program can continue serving people referred by the city’s gun-violence reduction effort.
Latif Kenzie, a staff member with the mayor’s office’s gun violence reduction effort, said the contract start was delayed and “they just started doing counseling in February, so we would like to try to expand it to September.” He said the extension would keep all other contract terms the same.
The request matters, Kenzie said, because the program is intended to provide therapy and outreach tied to the city’s violence-reduction…
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