OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction and Health Equity and Criminal and Juvenile Justice programs collaborated on a request for proposals to distribute more than $700,000 in rapid response funding to provide critical support to Maryland residents who use drugs, are incarcerated, or were recently released from incarceration, and thus were at increased risks of contracting COVID-19, suffering a fatal overdose, or being re-incarcerated.
Baltimore Action Legal Team
$40,000 over six months to enable Baltimore Action Legal Team to facilitate the release of pretrial defendants in response to COVID-19.
Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition
$50,000 over six months to provide direct relief to individuals who use drugs and have unstable housing in response to the challenges presented by COVID-19.
Baltimore Safe Haven
$50,000 over one year to provide general support.
Behavioral Health Leadership Institute
$25,000 for six months to provide general support.
Daniel Carl Torsch Foundation
$25,000 over six months to provide general support.
Family Support Network
$13,000 over six months to expand its capacity to reduce mass incarceration in Maryland, especially in the era of COVID-19.
Hope Baltimore (Helping Oppressed People Excel)
$20,000 over one year to enable Hope Baltimore to provide reentry supports to those being released from incarceration due to COVID-19.
Legal Aid Bureau, Inc.
$40,000 over eight months to provide civil legal services to returning citizens in response to the challenges presented by COVID-19.
Living Classrooms Foundation
$20,000 over six months to provide support to Project SERVE to increase its capacity to serve more people returning home and seeking stable employment due to COVID-19.
Marian House
$25,000 over six months to provide general support.
Martha’s Place
$25,000 over one year to provide transitional services to women, in response to the challenges presented by COVID-19.
MD Prisoner’s Rights Coalition Justice and Recovery Advocates
$30,000 over six months to provide support to Maryland Prisoners’ Rights Coalition to expand its capacity to advocate for improved conditions of confinement, especially in the era of COVID-19.
NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland Fund
$24,000 over six months to provide support to assist pregnant incarcerated individuals in response to the challenges presented
by COVID-19.
New Vision House of Hope
$20,000 over six months to provide general support.
Out for Justice
$105,000 over one year to provide general support.
Pivot Program
$25,000 over six months to provide general support.
Sex Workers Outreach Project USA
$55,000 over six months to enable Sex Workers Outreach Project-Baltimore to run a peer-led, mobile outreach project providing services and support to street-based sex workers.
The Association for the Public Defender of Maryland
$40,000 over one year to provide program support to facilitate the safe release of individuals from the Baltimore City jail in response to COVID-19.
U Empower of Maryland, Inc.
$25,000 over six months to provide general support.
Vehicles for Change
$20,000 over six months to provide general support.
Voices of Hope, Inc.
$30,000 over six months to provide general support.
Youth Empowered Society
$50,000 over six months to provide case management, emergency housing and legal support to youth and young adults who are experiencing homelessness and using substances in response COVID-19.
