On Thursday, February 25, Osborne's Buffalo team hosted a news conference to announce a partnership with the Buffalo Police Department to implement the Safeguarding Children of Arrested Parents Project. This first-of-its-kind, community-focused project will develop and enact child-sensitive policing policy, protocols, and training to minimize the potential trauma for children from parental arrest and other police enforcement activities. A new consortium of WNY Youth-Serving agencies is advising the project and working to provide trauma-informed follow-up services to children and families.
Continue reading...The dichotomy between violent and non-violent in criminal justice reform efforts creates barriers to transformative approaches to violence like restorative justice. To end mass incarceration, Kassandra Frederique, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, and Danielle Sered, executive director of Common Justice ask us to move beyond this binary in this Truthout editorial.
Continue reading...Governor Cuomo Signs Proximity Legislation into Law Bringing Parents and Children Closer Together
Measure will direct New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to place incarcerated parents in facilities closer to their minor children.
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Continue reading...In our most recent newsletter, we share the exciting news that construction is underway aat our Fulton Community Reentry Center and the receipt of $1 million in support from Trinity Church Wall Street to begin "Kinship Reentry," a novel solution based on the "kinship foster care" model that allows relatives who are fostering children to receive the same support that unrelated foster parents receive.
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