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This week, Baltimore City Health Commissioner Leana Wen signed a new standing order to allow residents to get naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal drug, without getting trained first. Wen’s order addresses the Heroin and Opioid Prevention Effort (HOPE) and Treatment Act of 2017, which included the Overdose Prevention Act, enabling all citizens to access naloxone, […]

Bard student Jahsol Drummond. Photo courtesy of the Baltimore Sun.   This week,Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) in East Baltimore celebrates its first graduating class since opening two years ago. Established with the help of an OSI-Baltimore grant to the Fund for Educational Excellence, BHSEC allows Baltimore City students to graduate in four years with both […]

Photo above: Artwork by Morrell Park Elementary student created during a lesson on Pablo Picasso.    Today, 2001 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Marshall Clarke’s organization Access Art holds the Final Spring Exhibition of its Elementary and Middle/High School programs from 5 to 7pm at Morrell Park. Additional information here. In 2001, Clarke used his fellowship to establish Youthlight […]

This is Anderson Peraza, a 10-year-old student at East Baltimore’s Hampstead Hill Academy. On March 9, Anderson’s dad Jesus Peraza dropped him off at school like he did every day. On his way back home, Jesus was stopped by Immigration Control Enforcement (ICE) agents to be deported to Honduras, a country he fled ten years […]

This morning OSI-Baltimore joined other local community groups, organizers, and students at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly) to launch Hidden Voices: Illuminating Baltimore’s Secrets, an innovative project based on artist Frank Warren’s PostSecret series that will encourage people to share their secrets on anonymous postcards. Pat Bernstein, a local philanthropists who recently wrote a powerful op-ed in […]

This week, CityBizList ran a three-part interview with OSI-Baltimore’s director, Diana Morris. In the series, Morris spoke to Veronica Cool, CEO of Cool and Associates, LLC and OSI-Baltimore advisory board member about her career beginnings as a legal advisor in the Refugee Bureau of the State Department as well as leading Open Society Foundations’ first […]

This week, National Public Radio’s Code Switch featured a story on Safe City Baltimore, the immigrant education and defense fund established by OSI-Baltimore in collaboration with the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant and Multicultural Affairs (MIMA). OSI-Baltimore director Diana Morris and MIMA director Catalina Rodriguez-Lima, who is also a member of OSI’s Leadership Council, were interviewed about the importance of […]

Last night, in collaboration with the New Day Campaign, OSI-Baltimore sponsored a discussion on safe injection facilities (SIFs) as a public health strategy. Sarah Evans (above, second from left), a senior program manager with the Open Society Foundation’s Public Health Program, talked about her experiences as the coordinator of Vancouver’s Insite, North America’s first and […]

This Saturday, 2013 OSI Community Fellow, Lanaea Featherstone’s William & Lanaea C. Featherstone Foundation and the Consular Section of the Mexican Embassy will present a free financial empowerment conference at the University of Baltimore. “Mi Dinero, Mi Destino” is designed to provide the Latino community with practical skills to help shape personal financial decisions including […]