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This week, NPR’s Marketplace interviewed OSI Advisory Board Vice Chair Joe Jones about the Black unemployment rate. Jones, who is the founder and CEO of the Center for Urban Families, an organization focusing on jobs and leadership training for urban communities, spoke of the barriers formerly incarcerated people face while looking for employment. “When we think […]

Recently, the Jewish Times featured 2009 OSI Community Fellow Ras Tre Subira and Olam Ubuntu, the youth group for Jewish and African-American teens, which he co-founded with Gabe Pickus. Olam Ubuntu, which combines the Hebrew word for world, “Olam,” and the Nguni-Bantu word, “Ubuntu,” which means “I am because we are,” works with Beth Am Synagogue […]

Last Tuesday, OSI and City Schools held a reception to officially launch the rollout of CEO Sonja Santelises’ “Blueprint for Success.” As part of the blueprint, 55 schools were designated “intensive learning sites,” including 15 where OSI will help implement restorative practices (see Fox 45 coverage). Over the next five years, OSI and city schools […]

City officials in Philadelphia announced they would encourage the development of safe consumption sites (SCSs, also referred to as safe injection sites, or SIFs) that would oversee medically-supervised drug consumption and provide other services. While Vancouver, Canada, has operated two sites for more than 10 years, there are currently no SIFs operating in the US; […]

This Friday, 2016 OSI Community Fellow Jermaine Bell will be the speaker for this month’s CreativeMornings, a breakfast lecture series aimed at the creative community. Bell will talk to CreativeMorning’s Baltimore host Will Walker about anxiety. Register here for the event at Cedar & Cotton. As part of his fellowship, Bell works with Exit the Apple, a […]

Baltimore City Schools CEO Sonja Santelises joined OSI-Baltimore Director Diana Morris at the University of Baltimore yesterday to announce the rollout of Dr. Santelises’ Blueprint for Success. Representatives for 55 schools that have been designated “intensive learning sites” attended the meeting. Among these schools are 15 where OSI-Baltimore will help implement restorative practices, 20 that […]

The OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows Strategic Advisory Group, a group of ten Fellows from the 20-year history of the Fellows program, gathered at Turf Valley Inn on Thursday and Friday to learn from each other and to devise strategies to increase collaboration and collective impact among the 190 Community Fellows. Among the learning opportunities was a […]

At a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee in Annapolis Tuesday, judges and public defenders testified that a Court of Appeals ruling that went into effect in July has been successful at reducing the number of people held in jail because they can’t afford to pay bail. The Daily Record noted that Baltimore County State’s Attorney […]