Osborne Association Inc

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.prepare: for parents and parent figures returning to the community, we provide a specialized reentry program that provides workforce training and job placement services alongside healthy relationship education, parenting education, parent-child outings, and guidance to support the parent-child bond.following completion of the core curriculum, we support the career development of each parent through hard skills training, placement in employment, and coaching to promote success on the job.jails to jobs: once people leave jail, osborne's support shifts seamlessly to the training, counseling, resources, and opportunities that our participants can use to build secure lives for themselves and their families. Our reentry services begin immediately upon release, typically with osborne staff driving a participant from jail to our offices. We ensure their emergency needs are met, set them up with clothing, toiletries, food, metrocards, mental health treatment, and substance use treatment, and get them into safe housing. Over the months that follow, osborne partners with reentering individuals to make their discharge plans a reality and to ultimately assist participants into achieving long-term economic independence. Janitorial maintenance services offers training and employment in our custodial service business to formerly incarcerated individuals with disabilities and/or 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.

Reducing reliance on incarcerationcourt 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.

Osborne association policy centerosborne's policy center is built on a practitioner-based policy advocacy that is grounded in the experience of our participants and direct-service staff. The center launches with two focus areas: children of arrested and/or incarcerated parents (through our new york initiative for children of incarcerated parents) and aging in prison and elder reentry. A key component of the policy center, the ny initiative for children of incarcerated parents is a collaborative effort to raise awareness and reform policy around the impact of incarceration on children. The initiative aims to change child welfare and criminal justice policies and procedures to ensure children's rights are upheld and their needs met through each stage of their parent's involvement in the criminal justice system.

Fulton community reentry centerfulton is a former new york state correctional facility that was donated to osborne to be redeveloped as a community reentry center and transitional residence for people returning home following a period of incarceration. Fulton opened in the spring of 2024 to provide housing and comprehensive reentry support for older adults returning from incarceration.