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The Unhoused Workgroup of the People’s Commission to Decriminalize Maryland will hold a trans and LGBQ+ listening session on lived experiences of people who have experienced homelessness or housing insecurity on Tuesday, October 5th at 6pm. Each participant will receive dinner and a $50 gift card. Space is limited. Click here to register for the event. Click […]

Each year, the William & Lanaea C. Featherstone Foundation, co-founded by 2013 OSI Community Fellow and Fellows Advisory Board co-chair Lanaea Featherstone, honors the high academic achievements of outstanding students from underrepresented communities across the state of Maryland. On September 24, the foundation announced their 30 Featherstone College Scholarship Award recipients. These students will receive […]

This week, two OSI Baltimore Community Fellows, Janet Glover-Kerkvliet (2019) and Deborah Ramsey (2016) were featured on WYPR shows. First, Janet Glover-Kervliet is the founder of the Baltimore Job Hunters Support group, which offers support and free career counseling to Baltimore job seekers. She spoke to Sheilah Kast on On the Record about how the […]

On August, 31st, Overdose Awareness Day, the OSI-supported BRIDGES Coalition launched a campaign to rally community support to bring life-saving Overdose Prevention Sites to Maryland. As the BRIDGES press release explains, the campaign was inspired by an exchange during a Maryland Senate committee hearing on Overdose Prevention Sites, when Senator Delores Kelly said of OPS, […]

On Tuesday, Out for Justice, a member-led group advocating for the rights of people impacted by the criminal justice system, held the first event in its two-part “Know your Rights” series about housing and employment laws. The second event will take place on Sept. 15th. Register here.   Out for Justice has been an OSI […]

This month’s Baltimore Magazine features 2018 OSI- Community Fellow, Graham Coreil-Allen, who uses public art to create traffic calming tools across Baltimore City. He works with residents, transportation officials, and traffic engineers to develop art that helps make streets safer and more accessible to everyone who uses them. This was the idea behind Coreil-Allen’s fellowship, […]

In an op-ed for the Baltimore Brew, Rajani Gudlavalleti, director of mobilization with OSI-supported Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition urges Maryland lawmakers to override Governor Hogan’s veto of Senate Bill 420, which decriminalized the possession or distribution of drug paraphernalia. “At a time when Baltimore’s overdose rate is among the highest in the nation” wrote Gudlavalleti, […]

On Sunday, CBS Sunday Morning included a segment focused on gun violence in Baltimore City and included interviews with Police Commissioner Michael Harrison, Daniel Webster of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Gun Violence Prevention and Policy, and Safe Streets site coordinator Corey Winfield. You can watch the full segment here.