Osborne Association Inc

Programs: Adopting healthy lifestyles: wellness and prevention provides services for people involved with the criminal justice system at-risk for, or coping with, substance use disorder, hepatitis and hiv/aids or other infectious diseases. Services include; hiv/aids counseling, peer training, testing and education, reentry, discharge, and transitional planning, case management, linkage to primary care, treatment adherence, and support groups. Housing placement and assistance provides assistance for people living with hiv/aids to obtain and maintain transitional, supportive, and permanent housing placements following incarceration. We support participants in their efforts to maintain housing placement, develop the capacity to live independently, reduce risky behaviors, and continue medical care and maintain abstinence from substance abuse. El rio is a highly structured and medically supervised intensive substance use disorder day-treatment program, providing an alternative to incarceration or re-incarceration for individuals charged with drug-related crimes or on probation or parole, and mandated to treatment by the courts or community corrections agencies. La fuente is a gender-specific substance use disorder and health treatment outpatient program for women as an alternative to incarceration or as referred by a family welfare or criminal justice agency. The program offers a safe environment to discuss healthy relationships, parenting skills, and reducing risky behaviors. Participants are connected to public benefits and offered vocational and educational assistance. Connecting families to care works to increase healthcare access for children of incarcerated parents and teenagers returning from rikers island. Through outreach in prison and jail visiting rooms, our staff help families learn about health insurance options for themselves and their children and complete the insurance enrollment process.

achieving economic independenceworkforce development offers comprehensive workforce development and employment services to individuals with prior criminal justice involvement. This includes assessment, career and educational counseling, job readiness workshops, resume preparation, skills enhancement, assistance with job search and placement, social service referrals, and post-employment support. Career center provides men and women with criminal records with environmental and financial literacy education, and comprehensive career development, including soft skills and hard skills training that prepares them to enter and advance in sector-specific fields. We place participants in jobs that support their growth, their families, and the environment. We offer group and individual counseling to identify and address participants' needs, as well as offer referral services. Career coaches offer services that include family support, educational and vocational support, skill-building activities, goal-setting, and civic engagement to ultimately assist participants into achieving long-term economic independence. Training to work provides men and women on work release the opportunity to expand their education and increase their employment skills in today's fastest growing fields: construction, waste management, food service and other industries. Justice community supports court-involved young adults (ages 18-24) in reconnecting with their families and communities in order to turn toward success in life. The program includes environmental and financial literacy training, career coaching, individual counseling and group support, community benefit projects, employment counseling, job placement and educational support. Fatherhood initiative works with young adults who are fathers to improve their employability and to strengthen their emotional and material support for their children. Services include individual and family counseling, mediation, parenting skills training, job readiness training, basic literacy education, and employment counseling. Arches is a partnership with the nyc department of probation that works to reduce participant involvement with the criminal justice system. Arches provides critical positive intervention among youth on probation by providing support groups, assisting youth in identifying negative behaviors and maladaptive patterns of thinking, and providing mentors from the same communities and with similar experiences with the criminal justice system. Nextsteps is a partnership with the nyc department of probation that is specifically focused on young people residing in or near nycha developments. Nextsteps builds critical positive intervention among youth who may be exposed to negative behaviors and maladaptive patterns of thinking. The mentoring intervention provides mentors from the same communities to build positive pathways and reveal opportunities to participating youth. Queensboro reentry services provides a range of reentry services that are evidence-based and that addresses the specific needs of men returning to the community through workshops that cover reentry-related topics in the areas of healthy-living, employment, managing stress and expectations and family dynamics; family-focused discharge planning; health improvement services for people living with hiv/aids or other chronic health conditions; and, a cdc approved evidence-based intervention for men with histories of substance use disorder who are at risk for relapse and other negative health behaviors. Janitorial maintenance services offers training and employment in our custodial service business to formerly incarcerated individuals with disabilities and history of substance use disorder. The business cleans public facilities and businesses throughout new york city (for prevailing wages and benefits) and also teaches participants to use environmentally friendly materials when cleaning. Fresh start catering provides hot meals to local businesses, not-for-profits, and agencies. Fresh start catering offers training in food preparation, cooking, packaging, and delivery to formerly incarcerated individuals, providing the opportunity to transform their lives through culinary arts training leading to employment.

reducing reliance on incarcerationjail-based services is dedicated to breaking the cycle of recidivism by providing cognitive behavioral therapy, workforce readiness, fatherhood programming and sector-specific job training. Services are provided both on rikers island and during the critical post-release period by offering support services including employment placement and retention assistance. Jail-based community reentry program is offered on rikers island to individuals identified as having the highest need in the community following release, enabling them to access services immediately upon release. The program is part of the individualized corrections achievement network initiative (i-can) of the nyc department of correction. Court advocacy services is a defender-based advocacy program assisting felony defendants, including juvenile offenders being tried in adult courts that are represented by nyc assigned and institutional defense attorneys in pursuit of alternatives to incarceration. Staff conduct pre-plea and pre-sentence investigations of defendants' backgrounds to ascertain mitigating circumstances, and advocate client specific sentencing alternatives in appropriate cases. Long termers responsibility project is an interdisciplinary advocacy effort that works with individuals serving long sentences, but who have completed their minimum sentences, by helping them to gain insight, take responsibility for their crimes and prepare for their eventual release through a restorative justice framework in individual and group settings.