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This week, Karen Webber, director of OSI’s Education and Youth Development program published an article in the Unified Family Court Connection Fall newsletter on the implementation of restorative practices in Baltimore City Public Schools.   The newsletter also features “Restorative Justice: Transforming Escalating Conflict into a Positive Outcome,” written by Maryland Representative John Sarbanes. Both […]

On Tuesday, October 30th, 1999 OSI Community Fellow David Miller will facilitate “Keys to Recruiting Men as Mentors.” The training will be held from 10am to 12pm at Miller’s Court on North Howard Street. Find additional information and register here. As part of his fellowship, Miller created the Dare to be King Curriculum as a comprehensive system […]

The Daily Record recently announced its list of Leading Women in Baltimore, and it includes two Open Society Institute Community Fellows, Lanaea Featherstone (2013) and Shantell Roberts (2017).  Featherstone developed her fellowship, “Empowering Latinos One ‘Click’ at a Time,” to teach Latino immigrants basic computer skills and is now president and CEO of the Featherstone […]

Last week, Maryland’s Court of Appeals ruled that two defendants were wrongfully assessed bail in amounts that exceeded their ability to pay, the Daily Record reports. This bail rule which went into effect July 1, 2017, requires judges to consider non-financial pretrial conditions before setting bail. In 2016, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh sent a […]

Baltimore Business Journal just announced its “40 Under 40” list for 2018 and among the recipients are 2016 OSI Community Fellow Gianna Rodriguez and Mark Procopio, CEO of OSI grantee FreeState Justice. As part of Fellowship, Rodriguez expanded her program, Baltimore Youth Arts, a job readiness program for youth who have contact with the justice […]

Join Open Society Institute-Baltimore for the second of three special events marking our 20th Anniversary. The centerpiece of the event will be a timely conversation on “Making Sure Every Person Counts: The Census, Advocacy, and Civic Participation” with two of the country’s foremost experts on these subjects: Barbara Mikulski was a US Senator representing Maryland for 30 years, from 1987 to […]

Positive Schools Center (PSC) of the University of Maryland School of Social Work, an initiative funded by a multi-year grant from Open Society Institute, recently created a series of training videos that they will use during the upcoming school year. The videos, which focus on leadership, positive relationships, teaching and learning, health and safety and school […]

Last week, 2016 OSI Community Fellow, Melissa Badeker and her program, Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap was featured on WMAR.  This time of year is especially busy for Badeker, who started the program with another fellow teacher as a way to collect unused school supplies from educators who no longer needed the materials and get them […]

As part of the Consent Decree that Baltimore City and the Department of Justice entered into as the result of an investigation into the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, the first set of the BPD’s revised policies relating to stops, searches, and arrests are available for public […]