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 […]
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AJ+ features OSI-Supported PCARE Mobile Treatment Van
Tuesday, September 24, 2019AJ+, an online news channel run by Al Jazeera Media network, recently featured the Project Connections at Re-Entry (PCARE) mobile treatment van, which the Behavioral Health Leadership Institute operates with support from Open Society Institute-Baltimore. The van parks regularly outside the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake center in order to help those with substance use […]
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Black Leaders Organizing for Change hosts first Blueprint Survey Design Workshop
Wednesday, September 18, 2019Last 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 […]
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Health Commissioner talks to OSI Leadership Council
Wednesday, September 18, 2019This 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 […]
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OSI Community Fellow featured in Runner’s World
Tuesday, September 17, 2019Last week, Runner’s World magazine published a profile 2016 OSI Community Fellow Isa Olufemi and the two running groups he founded, the Poet Pride Run Club (PPRC), which he launched as part of his Fellowship, and Black Running Organization (BRO). PPRC, which Olufemi established at Laurence Dunbar High School, combines physical fitness, school pride, personal […]
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OSI Co-Sponsors 2019 Social Innovation Bootcamp at Johns Hopkins
Friday, September 13, 2019On Saturday, September 28, Johns Hopkins University’s Social Innovation Lab, in partnership with Open Society Institute, Baltimore Corps, and Impact Hub will host the Baltimore Impact Bootcamp 2019, a full day of collaboration for those who want to launch their own social venture. The bootcamp will include sessions on Networking and Collaboration, Community Building, and […]
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Two OSI Community Fellows featured on WYPR’s Midday in the Neighborhood
Wednesday, September 11, 2019This week WYPR’s Midday in the Neighborhood, a program that is designed get perspectives from those who live in all 278 unique neighborhoods in Baltimore, featured two OSI-Community fellows talking about their work in the city’s West side. Wanda Best, a 2001 Community Fellow who is currently the Executive Director of the Upton Planning Committee […]
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Writers in Baltimore Schools Launches New Initiative
Wednesday, September 11, 2019This week, 2008 OSI Community Fellow Patrice Hutton was on WYPR’s Humanities Connection to introduce a new initiative for her program, Writers In Baltimore Schools, which provides in-school, after-school and summer creative writing workshops to Baltimore City middle and high school students. With “Neighborhoods, News: A Poetic Archiving of Baltimore,” 16 WBS students will have […]
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Baltimore Sun features op-ed from OSI’s Addiction and Health Equity director, Scott Nolen
Monday, September 09, 2019This week, the Baltimore Sun published an op-ed by OSI’s Addiction and Health Equity director, Scott Nolen who argues that “denying harm reduction services to people who use drugs is no different than denying seatbelts to people who drive.” In “The ‘seatbelt’ approach to the opioid crisis,” Nolen points out that with more than 70,000 […]
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OSI, Health Department mark Overdose Awareness Day
Wednesday, September 04, 2019On 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.
