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The 2022 Healing City Summit, a free five-day event bringing together a wide range of Baltimore residents doing healing and trauma-responsive work in Baltimore will take place Feb. 28th to March 5th, with a hybrid of virtual and in-person event. Registration is now open. Open Society Foundations is sponsoring the Summit programming on March 3rd, […]

Last week, the BRIDGES Coalition and Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition hosted a virtual briefing with members of the Legislative Black and Latino Caucuses to increase awareness about the life-saving possibilities of overdose prevention sites and other proven harm reduction tactics as part of the 5th Annual Harm Reduction Advocacy Days. Among the guests was Terrell […]

Last week, Baltimore City youth led a training for 450 staff members of the Enoch Pratt Library System, to, in the words of one trainer, “help youth within their healing process.” The session was one of a series of trainings as part of a broader collaboration between Baltimore City, OSI-Baltimore, and many other partners to […]

Last week, OSI-Baltimore’s Director of Strategic Communications Evan Serpick participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation on “Equity in Communications: How the Hyperlocal Approach Increases Vaccine Equity.” Serpick discussed OSI and its partners’ communications efforts as part of the Baltimore Equitable Vaccination Initiative, including the Bmore Vaxxed website, the #HowIKnew video series, […]

This week, the Baltimore Sun published a list of “25 Black Marylanders to Watch” in celebration of Black History month. The list includes 2018 OSI Community Fellow Shelley Halstead, and grantees Erricka Bridgeford of Baltimore Ceasefire 365 and Fagan Harris of Baltimore Corps. Among the “Living Legends” is Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel, NAACP Legal […]

Today, the Maryland Daily Record posted the latest edition of its interview series, “Off the Record with Sloane Browne,” with OSI-Baltimore Director Danielle Torain. Torain talks about the challenges of starting her role at OSI just a couple months before the COVID pandemic hit and how she and OSI staff have shifted to address both […]

Tonight on CharmTV, the Baltimore Equitable Vaccination Initiative (BEVI) presents the third Baltimore: State of Vaccination event. You can watch the full 50-minute event below, featuring OSI-Baltimore Director Daniel Torain, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Otis Rolley, testimonials from Baltimore residents about their decision to get vaccinated, profiles of Baltimore Heroes, and presentations from public health expert […]

This morning, the People’s Commission to Decriminalize Maryland hosted a press conference to review its priorities for Maryland’s 2022 legislative session, which started last week. Watch the press conference below and review a list of the priorities here. Check out coverage of the press conference on Public News Service and the Real News Network.

OSI-Baltimore will partner with the International Institute for Restorative Practices to present it’s annual World Conference, which will take place virtually January 26 – 28. The conference includes 23 sessions, including Schools that Teach the Change We Want to See, Community Applications of Restorative Practices, Reckoning with Systemic Injustice, Let’s Talk about Community Responses to […]