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Portsmouth staff outline CVI consultant plan; procurement may begin in November with task‑force support to follow
Summary
Staff described a two‑year consultant plan for community violence interruption (CVI) services and separate task‑force consulting; Miss Matthews said the city plans embedded technical assistance, site visits, a case‑management system and SOPs and that procurement could allow a November 2025 start for the CVI component and January 2026 for the task‑
Miss Matthews, task‑force staff, briefed members on the planned consultant engagement to support Portsmouth’s community violence interruption (CVI) work and to provide technical assistance for the task force.
She said the city separated the CVI component from the broader task‑force consulting work to allow clearer timelines and deliverables. "So what we decided was to, hash out the CVI component of that proposal first," Matthews said. The CVI contract proposal described a two‑year plan and included embedded technical assistance, bimonthly site visits, weekly coaching calls, support for a case‑management system…
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