Several OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows will be involved in events around town tonight: Tonight at 5:30 pm, 2016 Fellow LaMarr Shields, who held a book signing last night, will host a community discussion and screening of the short-subject documentary “Beyond Stereotypes: Redefining Images of Young Men of Color,” which he coordinated with 2014 Community Fellow Brian […]
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Choice Program launches Starbucks Opportunity Café in East Baltimore
Wednesday, April 05, 2017The Choice Program at UMBC, an OSI-Baltimore grantee, has partnered with Starbucks on a new outlet near Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore that features an “Opportunity Café,” an in-store job training program with a classroom built right into the coffee shop. The idea is to teach people in the surrounding East Baltimore community basic life […]
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OSI’s Scott Nolen talks about harm reduction, listening to community voices at Light City
Tuesday, April 04, 2017Scott Nolen, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Drug Addiction Treatment program, joined Kevin Lindamood, executive director of Healthcare for the Homeless, for a presentation as part of yesterday’s Health Lab at Light City on innovative approaches to homelessness and addiction. Nolen underlined the extent of the addiction crisis by pointing out that 52,000 Americans died of drug overdoses […]
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OSI-Baltimore Statement on the Request to Delay the Baltimore Consent Decree Hearing
Tuesday, April 04, 2017Statement of the Open Society Institute-Baltimore on the U.S. Department of Justice’s Request to Delay the Baltimore Consent Decree Hearing It is irresponsible for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Trump Administration to call into question the work product of key parties to the Baltimore Consent Decree and to seek to undo a […]
