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TRANSFORMING LIVES, COMMUNITIES & THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Highlights of Our Impact and Services
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More than 215 staff from our 3 community sites in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Newburgh work at every point of the continuum, from arrest and pre-entry, through jail and prison, to reentry, including children and families affected by crime and the criminal justice system.
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In the community, Osborne offers: • Job Readiness & Employment Services • Mentoring • Community Reentry Services • Alternatives to Detention and Incarceration • Case Management
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• Healthy Parenting and Relationship Programs
• Senior Services
• Substance Use Disorder Treatment
• Video Visiting
• Supportive Services for People Living with Chronic Health Conditions
• Social Enterprises in Janitorial Maintenance and Food Services
• Housing Placement Services
• Computer and Hard-Skills Labs
Reaching nearly 10,000 people each year with services offered at 9 NYC jails and 22 NY State prisons, Osborne has the largest presence and longest experience combining community-based services with work inside correctional facilities of any service provider in the state.
Services in NYC Jails & NYS Prisons: • Elder Reentry Initiative
• Hospitality Centers
• Family Centers
• I-CAN (Individualized Corrections Achievement Network) Rikers Island Discharge Planning
• Family-focused Reentry • Video Visiting • HIV/AIDS Prevention Services
• Parenting and Healthy Relationship Courses
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• Children, Youth and Family Services
INNOVATION AT THE INTERSECTION OF POLICY & PRACTICE
“After 6 months of treatment, I obtained my OSHA license, stopped smoking cigarettes, and achieved drug abstinence after being a daily user. I enrolled in culinary arts school and became employed with Osborne’s Fresh Start Catering.” - Kim Washington Newburgh
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FULTON COMMUNITY REENTRY CENTER In 2015, Osborne received the keys to the closed Fulton Correctional Facility. In 2016, we begin the next phase of our project to create an economic hub and community reentry center for people coming home from prison and jail. More at: www.osborneny.org/Fulton
“The Sing Sing children’s center allows kids to interact with their daddies. They play games, color, read, and even make special projects during the holidays! My husband took Osborne’s parenting classes which helped his relationship with our babies. He has more patience, less anger, and he is the loving man he was prior to what led to his incarceration.” - Jennifer Loucks Bronx
Newburgh
After more that a year of planning work with the NYC Department for the Aging and colleagues in the academy, corrections, gerontology, reentry and the community, in 2015 Osborne launched the Elder Reentry Initiative. This pilot project works with incarcerated elders as they prepare to return home, connecting them to resources that meet their unique and often unmet needs. More at: www.osborneny.org/ElderReentry
CENTER FOR JUSTICE POLICY AND PRACTICE Osborne’s Center for Justice Policy and Practice is built on practitioner-based policy advocacy that is grounded in the experience of our participants and direct-service staff. OCJPP launches with two focus areas: children of arrested and/or incarcerated parents (through our NY Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents) and aging in prison and reentry. More at: www.osborneny.org/OCJPP
Brooklyn [peer support “The Youth Experience Success community] provides me with a safe and loving environment and staff who go to every extent to help me reach my fullest potential.... This opportunity has given me the chance to explore possibilities and allowed me to believe that anything is possible if I set my mind to it.” - Shiane Camacho
Osborne has an 83 year history of leadership working with currently and formerly incarcerated men, women, and children and families affected by incarceration.
OUR MISSION & HISTORY individuals, families and communities to create opportunities for people affected by the criminal justice system to further develop their strengths contribution. We design, implement and advocate for solutions that prevent and reduce the damage caused by crime and incarceration.
Thomas Mott Osborne — an industrialist and former mayor of Auburn, NY — spent a voluntary week in Auburn prison in 1913 as prisoner Tom Brown, #33,333x. He left that harrowing experience committed to the goal of turning America’s prisons from “human scrap heaps into human repair shops.” Mr. Osborne later became warden of Sing Sing prison and has been called the “pioneer and prophet of prison reform.” The Osborne Association was established in 1933 to continue his legacy after his death.
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and lead lives of responsibility and
- Raymonita Morales, who completed Osborne’s Longtermers Responsibility Project and Treatment Services program, is now a Janitorial Maintenance Crew Chief and NYSID Joslin Award Winner.
“When I first got to Osborne, I didn’t even have parental rights of my daughter. Because of the Fatherhood Initiative, three months after starting the program, the judge was able to give me back my daughter. So I have all my parental rights again and I’m doing amazing.” - Charles Karomer
ELDER REENTRY INITIATIVE
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“I’ve grown mentally, physically and spiritually. I would have never thought in a million years that I would be in this position I am in now.”
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Our programs use evidencebased interventions, drawing upon research and evaluation that has demonstrated success with people involved in the criminal justice system, and are designed to be family-focused, supporting participants within the context of their family relationships and communities—strengthening relationships that are the bedrock of our participants’ future success.
ADOPTING HEALTHY LIFESTYLES
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98% of individuals completing Project START—a 6-session harm reduction intervention—were successfully connected to medical care in the community, obtained safe housing, reduced risky behaviors, and adhered to medical treatment.
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Our Wellness and Prevention services assisted 2,046 people in receiving HIV & HCV prevention and intervention services, developing skills to avoid high risk behaviors, and increasing their awareness and knowledge of disease management.
RECONNECTING FAMILIES 3,369 Children made 3,369 visits through our Family Centers, which are childfriendly spaces in prison visiting rooms for parents and their children to meet, and are maintained by our FamilyWorks program.
88% of participants placed in housing were relapse-free, complied with their treatment plans, and retained housing at one year.
94% of parenting education participants reported improved relationship skills with their families as a result of training.
729 HIV tests were administered in 5 prison facilities, equipping participants with increased awareness and knowledge of health status.
94% 349 349 mothers, fathers, and family members participated in parenting education in prison or jail.
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193 Skype-like calls, connecting children to their incarcerated parent and allowing for opportunities to strengthen their relationship, were made possible through our Tele-visiting program.
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In FY16 NYC expanded the size of the I-CAN program allowing us to serve triple the number of people returning to the community.
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REDUCING RELIANCE ON INCARCERATION
226 participants received case resolutions that resulted in reduced jail/prison time through our Court Advocacy Services.
1,346 1,346 I-CAN Participants (the Individualized Corrections Achievement Network) received discharge planning services on Rikers Island including employment readiness, life skills, substance use and mental health treatment, parenting and housing placement in FY15.
ACHIEVING ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE 84
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Osborne’s Workforce Development Participants were placed in employment at an average wage of $14.28.
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Osborne’s Court Advocacy Services reduced participants’ sentences by up to 1,170 years.
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146 OSHA 10 construction training certificates were earned by Osborne Workforce Development participants, setting them on a path to employment.
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Osborne was the only NY organization awarded a Training to Work grant from the US Dept. of Labor to provide employment, training, and support services to formerly incarcerated adults returning to their communities. We were also the only NY organization awarded a ReFORM grant from the US Dept. of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families to expand our community-based parenting, employment, and healthy relationships services for fathers in reentry and their families in NYC.
STRENGTHENING COMMUNITIES
84 people maintained employment with our Janitorial Maintenance Services social enterprise at a starting wage of $18 per hour.
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86 young adults in the Bronx established relationships with mentors.
Youth advocacy efforts helped to yield legislative wins including law enforcement protocol changes to minimize the trauma experienced by children at the time of their parent’s arrest.
More than 30 service learning projects in the Bronx area benefitted communities and increased participants’ job readiness skills.
110 110 young people participated in leadership development, advocacy and recreational programming.
