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OSI-Baltimore, in collaboration with Baltimore City Public Schools, the Family League of Baltimore, and the Baltimore School Climate Collaborative, will begin the process of implementing restorative practices in all Baltimore City Schools over the next five years. The use of restorative practices in schools has been shown to support effective leadership and engaging classrooms; develop […]

Yesterday, Tara Huffman, director of OSI’s Criminal and Juvenile Justice program was a guest on WEAA’s The Marc Steiner Show for a discussion about Baltimore’s  Consent Decree. Huffman explained where the consent decree stands, both legally and politically. Legally, the decree has been finalized and under the jurisdiction of the the court, “neither the City, nor the […]

On Monday night, James Forman, Jr. talked about his “superb and shattering” (per the New York Times) new book, “Locking Up Our Own: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in Black America,” as part of OSI-Baltimore’s Talking About Race series. Watch the whole event below. The event, at the University of Baltimore Law School’s Moot Court Room, […]

Yesterday, James Forman, Jr. was a guest on WYPR’s On the Record with Sheilah Kast to talk about his new book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America and to promote OSI’s Talking About Race event on Monday, where he’ll talk about the book witjh University of Baltimore Law School Dean Ron Weich, U.S. Court of […]

Earlier this week, 1999 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow David C. Miller, founder of the Dare To Be King project, was interviewed on WEAA’s “Keep it Moving with Marsha Jews.” Miller was featured with Leigh R. Allen, II, Vice President, Marketing & Development of Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO), Inc to talk about their “Who’s Got Your Back: […]

Several OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows will be involved in events around town tonight: Tonight at 5:30 pm, 2016 Fellow LaMarr Shields, who held a book signing last night, will host a community discussion and screening of the short-subject documentary “Beyond Stereotypes: Redefining Images of Young Men of Color,” which he coordinated with 2014 Community Fellow Brian […]

The Choice Program at UMBC, an OSI-Baltimore grantee, has partnered with Starbucks on a new outlet near Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore that features an “Opportunity Café,” an in-store job training program with a classroom built right into the coffee shop. The idea is to teach people in the surrounding East Baltimore community basic life […]

Scott Nolen, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Drug Addiction Treatment program, joined Kevin Lindamood, executive director of Healthcare for the Homeless, for a presentation as part of yesterday’s Health Lab at Light City on innovative approaches to homelessness and addiction. Nolen underlined the extent of the addiction crisis by pointing out that 52,000 Americans died of drug overdoses […]