Stephanie Hansen

Stephanie Hansen serves as Assistant Director at Central Purchasing for the State of California, where she leads the strategic procurement of specialized services aligned with the agency’s mission to support justice-involved youth through rehabilitation and reentry programs. In this primary contracting role, she oversees the acquisition of landscape architectural services designed to create therapeutic, restorative outdoor environments for youth detention centers, transitional housing, and community-based intervention sites. Her work directly supports holistic development initiatives by ensuring that physical spaces are intentionally designed to promote mental wellness, behavioral therapy, and community engagement. While no contractor data is currently available, Hansen’s procurement approach emphasizes collaboration with licensed landscape architects and design-build firms experienced in restorative environments, public infrastructure, and trauma-informed design. She fosters long-term vendor partnerships grounded in compliance with state procurement codes and performance-based deliverables, prioritizing firms that demonstrate expertise in sustainable, low-impact landscaping and accessible outdoor therapeutic spaces. Hansen’s contracting portfolio reflects a 100% preference for open competition with no set-asides, indicating a focus on technical capability and design excellence over socioeconomic classifications. This approach underscores her commitment to selecting the most qualified professionals to deliver high-impact, mission-critical environments, regardless of vendor size or certification status. Her primary procurement focus is exclusively under NAICS 541320 (Landscape Architectural Services), encompassing site planning, hardscape and softscape design, irrigation systems, native plant integration, and ADA-compliant accessibility features. She specializes in procuring services that transform institutional landscapes into healing spaces—integrating restorative justice principles into physical design—making her a key steward of environment-based rehabilitation strategies within California’s youth services ecosystem.