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- EIN 13-3517886
- (718) 707-2600
- 809 Westchester Ave Bronx NY 10455-1704 USA
- www.osborneny.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Mental Health, Substance Abuse Treatment
Mission: The primary exempt purpose is to provide services to defendants, prisoners, former prisoners and their families, to provide alternatives to incarceration, to provide reentry services to people leaving prison, and to operate an ambulatory drug free program which includes outpatient and aftercare services and other public safety and public health services, throughout new york, receiving its support predominantly from federal, new york state and new york city governmental sources.
Programs: Adopting healthy lifestyles: el rio - a highly structured and medically supervised substance abuse 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.
court advocacy services: 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. Cas staff conducts pre-plea and pre-sentence investigations of defendants' backgrounds to ascertain mitigating circumstances, and advocate client-specific sentencing alternatives in appropriate cases.