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The Wall Street Journal today profiled Baltimore’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program, which seeks to divert low-level drug offenders to treatment and other support services and away from arrest. OSI-Baltimore is the primary funder of the program, working in collaboration with the Baltimore Police Department, the State’s Attorney’s Office, and Behavioral Health System Baltimore, as announced in […]

WYPR’s program On the Record, hosted by Sheilah Kast, wrapped up its ongoing series profiling the 2016 cohort of OSI-Baltimore’s Community Fellows by speaking with LaMarr Darnell Shields about his project, The Teacher Exchange. In a reversal of the traditional teacher-student relationship, The Teacher Exchange aims to engage young people in their own education by […]

WYPR’s program On the Record, hosted by Sheilah Kast, continues its ongoing series profiling the 2016 cohort of OSI-Baltimore’s Community Fellows by featuring Eliseba Osore and her project, the ShareBaby Baby Pantry. The pantry provides diapers, clothing, and other basic goods to organizations that work with families in need such as House of Ruth, Sarah’s […]

OSI-Baltimore will partner with the New Day Campaign, an organization that uses art-based programming to challenge the stigma associated with mental illness and substance abuse, on its 2017 “Addiction Now” Coffee House series. The Addiction Now series explores the current cultural, scientific, and clinical aspects of addiction. The first Addiction Now event, “Opioid, Opioid, Opioid” […]

As part of its ongoing series of profiles of OSI-Baltimore’s 2016 cohort of Community Fellows, WYPR’s “On the Record,” hosted by Sheilah Kast, recently profiled Jennifer Will-Thapa and Jermaine Bell. Jennifer will develop the Common Ground Youth Farm Project during her Fellowship. The project will provide on-the-job training, mentorship, and personal development to young people […]

This week, the Atlantic posted a great profile on the Bard Early College Network, and features OSI-Baltimore supported Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) Baltimore, a High Value High School. BHSEC, established with the help of an OSI-Baltimore grant to the Fund for Educational Excellence, is designed to allow Baltimore City students to graduate in […]

This week, OSI-Baltimore director, Diana Morris and Kurt Schmoke, University of  Baltimore president and former mayor of Baltimore, appeared on WEAA’s Keep It Moving with Marsha Jews to talk about the Solutions Summit. The Summit will take place Saturday, December 10 from 9am- 4:30pm at the War Memorial. Schmoke is the Summit co-chair, along with Chair […]

Tara Huffman, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Criminal and Juvenile Justice program, recently spoke to VICE for its story about the new urgency surrounding the expected consent decree between the city and the Department of Justice (DOJ). The consent decree is the expected result from the DOJ investigation of the Baltimore City Police (BPD) after the death of […]

On Saturday, WJZ public affairs show On Time hosted OSI-Baltimore director Diana Morris, and Joe Jones, President and CEO of Center for Urban Families and the Vice Chair of OSI’s Advisory Board to talk about the upcoming Solutions Summit. The Summit will be held at the War Memorial on December 10 (register for free here), and […]