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Chester County Women\u2019s Commission representatives Wendy Leeper (third left) and Denise Bailey (center) present bus tokens for the Chester County WRAP program. Pictured left to right are: County Commissioner Terence Farrell; Sharon Dickinson, WRAP Supervisor; Wendy Leeper; County Commissioner Michelle Kichline; Denise Bailey; Jennifer Lopez, Deputy Chief, and Christopher Murphy, Chief, Department of Probation, Parole and Pretrial Services; and County Commissioner Kathi Cozzone.<\/p><\/div>\n

WEST CHESTER \u2014 The Chester County Women\u2019s Commission donated $500 in bus tokens this week to the award-winning Women\u2019s Reentry Assessment and Programming Initiative (WRAP), run by the Chester County Department of Probation, Parole and Pretrial Services.<\/p>\n

The presentation was made during Tuesday\u2019s Chester County Commissioners\u2019 Sunshine meeting. Women\u2019s Commission Chair Denise Bailey and Vice Chair Wendy Leeper presented the bus tokens to Jennifer Lopez, deputy chief, Probation, Parole and Pretrial Services.<\/p>\n

Established by the Chester County Commissioners more than 20 years ago, the Women\u2019s Commission\u2019s purpose is to provide regular input on the status and needs of women in Chester County.<\/p>\n

In her remarks at Tuesday\u2019s presentation, Denise Bailey noted the vision of the Women\u2019s Commission to serve as a catalyst for change by drawing on the passion, spirit and strengths of women to create a more equitable community.\u00a0 \u201cAt a meeting with the County Commissioners earlier this year we talked about the WRAP program and how support of the women who participate in the program would directly answer to the mission of the Women\u2019s Commission to empower women to reach their potential.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Chester County\u2019s WRAP program won the top Criminal Justice and Public Safety award from the National Association of Counties and was selected as one of the top 25 programs recognized by Harvard University\u2019s Innovation in Government Award program.<\/p>\n

WRAP is a specialized assessment and supervision unit of Chester County\u2019s Probation, Parole and Pretrial department that focuses on at-risk women who are transitioning from county incarceration or facing technical violations for supervision.\u00a0 It is a proven program, duplicated by other counties in the state, that helps to reduce recidivism and technical violations of community supervision, and that increases the health and well-being of justice-involved women.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen released from Chester County Prison face multiple challenges,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cThe women need to reconnect with their families and reintegrate into their communities and transportation is one of the biggest issues. These bus tokens will significantly help the women attend meetings and get to job interviews.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WEST CHESTER \u2014 The Chester County Women\u2019s Commission donated $500 in bus tokens this week to the award-winning Women\u2019s Reentry Assessment and Programming Initiative (WRAP), run by the Chester County Department of Probation, Parole and Pretrial Services. The presentation was made during Tuesday\u2019s Chester County Commissioners\u2019 Sunshine meeting. Women\u2019s Commission Chair Denise Bailey and Vice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,10675],"class_list":["post-37634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county","tag-womens-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37635,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37634\/revisions\/37635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}