Offender Aid And Restoration Of Arlington County Oara Inc

Education and Outreach, Racial Justice, Liberation, Advocacy, and Legislation Change: Our reputation and impact in the community have allowed us to convene leaders and mobilize them to move the needle forward on racial justice and liberation. We address incarceration, the legal system, and all systems upstream, calling out the injustice that permeates these systems, and we seek true justice. Since individuals make up systems, we also support people confronting the daily harm they can cause. We lift the voices of those who've experienced incarceration and racial and other intersecting forms of marginalization. We challenge those who have benefited from the unjust system to become leaders in dismantling systemic injustice and redressing the harm caused. Continued in Schedule O . . .

Alternative Sentencing and Diversion: Through alternative sentencing and diversion programs, people of all genders and ages can stay with their families, continue working or going to school, give back to the community, and avoid the lifelong burdens and collateral consequences that come with incarceration for them and their loved ones. OAR works with Arlington County and the City of Falls Church's Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney and the Courts to provide alternative sentencing and diversion programs. For example, OAR's Community Service program allows youth and adults to be sentenced to volunteer in the community instead of jail time and fines and to work off their accrued court costs. Continued in Schedule O