Recently, 2013 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Lanaea Featherstone’s foundation launched the first multicultural professional development opportunity. “Reaching New Heights” is a 12- week training program designed to equip participants with skills needed to land an entry level job in the financial services industry. The foundation will match participants with employers and help them secure a new […]
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OSI Community Fellow’s Unified Efforts Summer Program featured on WBAL
Tuesday, July 11, 2017This week, WBAL aired a segment on the youth violence prevention program run by Unified Efforts, the program started by 2016 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow, Debbie Ramsey. The summer program, which was announced in early June, provides free summer activities for West Baltimore/Penn North students, including free indoor swimming lessons, art, music, introduction to aviation and […]
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OSI Community Fellow introduces pay-what-you-can dance classes
Tuesday, July 11, 20172015 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Brian Gerardo’s Baltimore Dance Crews Project (BDCP) is launching a series of pay-what-you-can dance classes, the Purple Box Workshops. A purple box will be made available at the beginning of each class, where guests can make a cash contribution, if they can, but no one will be turned away if they’re unable […]
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OSI and Health Department announce new campaign to combat overdose crisis
Monday, July 10, 2017This morning, OSI-Baltimore director Diana Morris joined Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen to announce a $200,000 grant to support the Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD) combat overdose deaths and reduce the stigma surrounding addiction. The grant will fund a rapid response team to help target outreach in real time when overdoses are reported […]
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Campaign for Jobs, Safety and Justice Holds Town Hall for Consent Decree Monitors
Friday, July 07, 2017Last night at Coppin State University, nearly two dozen representatives for the teams applying to be Consent Decree monitors answered questions about their qualifications and proposed strategies in front of a standing room only crowd of community members. Before the start of the town hall, hosted by OSI-Baltimore grantee, the Campaign for Jobs, Safety and […]
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OSI Community Fellow Hosts “Let’s Talk About Race” at the Impact Hub
Thursday, July 06, 2017On Saturday, 2016 OSI Community Fellow, J.C. Faulk will host, “Let’s Talk About Race,” a conversation, open to all, to discuss the impact of race and racism in Baltimore. Register here for this free event at the Impact Hub Baltimore. In 2015, Faulk began hosting discussions about the impact of racism in his home, inviting […]
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Coalition for Safe and Just Maryland op-ed highlights new money bail rule
Friday, June 30, 2017An op-ed in Baltimore Sun written by members of the Coalition for a Safe and Just Maryland (CSJM) highlights the new rule recently adopted by the Court of Appeals that deprioritizes money bail, which goes into effect tomorrow. The new rule will ensure that money alone no longer determines whether Marylanders are jailed or free […]
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Campaign for Justice, Safety and Jobs to hold Consent Decree Town Hall
Friday, June 30, 2017Next Thursday, July 6, the Campaign for Justice, Safety, and Jobs, an OSI-Baltimore grantee, is hosting a forum to interview the Consent Decree monitor applicants. Nearly all of the two dozen applicants will be on hand at the Coppin State University Health & Human Services Building to answer questions. Under the terms of the consent decree, […]
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OSI Fellow’s ShareBaby Baby Pantry featured on WMAR
Friday, June 30, 2017This week, WMAR Baltimore featured ShareBaby, an organization that provides clothing, diapers, strollers, toys, and other basic goods to organizations that work with families in need. 2016 OSI-Community Fellow, Eliseba Osore’s developed her project, Baltimore Baby Pantry as part of ShareBaby to focus mostly on collecting and distributing diapers, which is the primary need for […]
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AMA Endorses Supervised Injection Facilities
Wednesday, June 28, 2017Recently, the nation’s largest organization of doctors, the American Medical Association (AMA) endorsed supervised injection facilities on a pilot basis as a method to respond to the opioid epidemic. Supervised injection facilities (SIFs), sometimes also referred to as overdose prevention centers or safe drug consumption rooms are monitored spaces where people can use their own […]
