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At Tuesday’s meeting of the Baltimore City Council’s public safety committee, Gabriel Auteri, deputy chief of staff of the city health department, outlined a plan to double the number of city residents who can access addiction treatment medication buprenorphine. On Friday, the Sun ran a staff editorial supporting the move, suggesting that “[e]xpanding buprenorphine access […]

On Friday, the first day of the Baltimore Book Festival, OSI Community Fellow and Circle of Voices founder J.C. Faulk (above right), OSI Communications Director Evan Serpick, and philanthropist Pat Bernstein (above left) appeared on the Enoch Pratt Free Library Children’s Stage to talk about their collaborative project, Hidden Voices: Illuminating Baltimore’s Secrets. The project, launched […]

Baltimore City Paper named Baltimore Youth Arts, founded by 2016 OSI Community Fellow Gianna Rodriguez, “Best Artists” in its 2017 Best of Baltimore issue, calling them “the most radical arts collective in the city right now.” The after-school program helps young people involved in the juvenile justice system express themselves through art in many forms, […]

The cover story in this week’s City Paper is a collaboration between the paper and students in 2009 OSI Community Fellow Patrice Hutton‘s Writers in Schools Summer Studio program. Earlier this summer, 36 students in the program interviewed local people to write profiles for this special issue of City Paper, then spent a week at […]

Through her work as program director of Baltimore’s ShareBaby Baby Pantry, 2016 OSI Community Fellow Eliseba Osore has spearheaded efforts to collect diapers and other needed items to victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas. As WJZ reported this week, ShareBaby partnered with Wee Chic Baby Boutique in Lutherville, which also donated 10 percent of its […]

Open Society Institute-Baltimore is proud to share its 2016 Impact Report. The new report aims to tell the stories behind some of OSI-Baltimore’s work, including an update on our first Community Fellow, Lauren Abramson, founder of Community Conferencing Center (the cover features Bernard Williams, who worked with Community Conferencing to meet the man who killed […]

Yesterday, August 31st, OSI-Baltimore joined the Baltimore City Health Department and other local organizations and residents in marking International Overdose Awareness Day. Over the course of the day, more than 670 Baltimore residents learned how to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose In the morning, OSI staff joined the Health Department and Behavioral Health […]

(see full size posters here and here.) Thursday, August 31st is International Overdose Awareness Day, a global event held each year to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the stigma of a drug-related death. It also acknowledges the grief felt by families and friends remembering those who have met with death or permanent injury as a result of drug overdose. Overdose Day spreads the message […]

This morning, Mayor Catherine Pugh, City Council President Jack Young, Lt. Governor Boyd Rutherford, and City Schools CEO Sonja Santelises joined Baltimore City students, residents, and education advocates to celebrate the opening of Fort Worthington Elementary/Middle School, the first of several schools to be modernized, rebuilt, or constructed as part of the 21st Century School Buildings […]

OSI-Baltimore is pleased to make a draft version of its Baltimore City Schools Restorative Practices Plan available for public review. Restorative practices are a set of tools and strategies that draws on the belief that open, respectful communication helps reduce conflict. And, when conflict does occur, restorative practices encourage students to focus on the harm caused and on […]