On Thursday, April 8 at 4:30 PM, please join Osborne's Youth Action Council (YAC) for a press conference during which they will call on the New York State legislators to pass the Protect In-Person Visiting bill.
Show the YAC your support registering for the press conference: https://bit.ly/ProtectVisits and sharing the flyer on social media.
#ProtectVisiting #LoveLivesInPerson
Continue reading...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.
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