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Last night, Reginald Dwayne Betts read excerpts from his new poetry collection, Felon, and answered questions from fellow poet Lady Brion at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in a Writers LIVE event co-sponsored by the Pratt and OSI-Baltimore. (Listen to the podcast here.) Among the poems in Felon are several that take legal documents and […]

Karen Webber, director of OSI’s Education and Youth Development Program will participate in a panel on “Restoring Schools and Healing Communities ” as part of the Johns Hopkins University School of Education’s symposium on Schools, Prisons, and Concentrated Poverty (agenda). The symposium announcement includes a data packed Call to Action: Generating Strategies that Promote Nurturing, Justice, […]

Darlene Crider, a former Baltimore Police Officer, 2015 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow, and founder of “Sisters-in-Law,” was included in the Baltimore Sun’s list of “25 Women to Watch in 2019,” released over the weekend. As the Sun wrote, “Crider retired in 2008 from the force but is still mentoring youth. She’s opened Sister in Law Inc., […]

Yesterday, OSI grantees including the Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition, BMORE Power, and Charm City Care Connection joined Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and City Council President Brandon Scott at an event to encourage city and state officials to further pursue Overdose Prevention Sites (SPSs) in Baltimore City. At SIFs, drug users can use drugs in […]

Last week, the Baltimore Orioles honored 2014 OSI Community Fellow Van Brooks and 2018 OSI Community Fellow Ciera Daniel as Community Heroes, telling their stories on the big screen at Camden Yards during home games (see Van’s story here) .  Brooks, who was paralyzed while playing high-school football, founded Safe Alternative Foundation for Education (SAFE), which […]

In July a delegation of professors, program directors, program officers, and project coordinators from Mexico from the U.S. State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ International Visitor Leadership Program visited OSI-Baltimore’s office to learn more about our work. One of those visitors was Lariza R. Fonseca, a program officer for the Central America and […]

Last night, Black Leaders Organizing for Change (BLOC) hosted the first of four Survey Design Workshops as part of the OSI-supported Blueprint for Baltimore: 2020 and Beyond project. BLOC’s Tre Murphy (above, right) opened the session, held at the Oak Hill Center for Education and Culture, explained the three goals of the Blueprint project: Listen […]

This morning, Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Letitia Dzirasa (above, center) met with OSI-Baltimore’s Leadership Council to discuss the Health Department’s ongoing strategic planning process, which includes a series of Community Conversations. The second of six Community Conversations is tonight at the Zeta Center on Reisterstown Road. Scott Nolen (above, left), director of OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction […]

On Thursday, the Baltimore City Health Department, with support from OSI-Baltimore and Bmore POWER, a group led by people with lived experience with substance use, marked International Overdose Awareness Day by holding Naloxone trainings throughout Baltimore City, including the one pictured above outside Lexington Market.