THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC

Programs

1. Achieving ecomonic independenceworkforce development: offers comprehensive employment services, including assessment, job readiness training, career counseling, skills development, job placement, and retention support to individuals with criminal justice involvement.career center ("the center") provides men and women with criminal records with environmental and financial literacy education, and comprehensive career development, including soft skills and hard skills training that prepares them to enter and advance in sector-specific fields. The center places participants in jobs that support their growth, their families, and the environment. The center offers group and individual counseling to identify and address participants' needs and provide referral services. Career coaches offer services that include family support, educational and vocational support, skill-building activities, goal-setting and civic engagement to assist participants achieve long-term economic independence. Training to work provides men and women on work release the opportunity to expand their education and increase their employment skills in today's fastest-growing fields: construction, waste management,…

   $11,006,446 spent$8,405,195 earned by the program
   35% of program spending

2. Housing and createassists people who have come in contact with the criminal legal system to obtain and maintain transitional, supportive, and permanent housing placements following incarceration. This program supports participants in their efforts to maintain stable housing, develop the capacity to live independently, provides workforce development services, continue medical care, and maintain abstinence from substance abuse.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…

   $9,597,672 spent$95,793 earned by the program
   31% of program spending

3. Reconnecting families and strengthening communitiesfamily services offers support to people affected by incarceration to make, mend and maintain family relationships and to plan for successful reentry from prison into their communities through the family ties program for mothers and familyworks program for fathers. The programs offer parenting education in new york city and state correctional facilities informed by research and best practices on childhood and cognitive development and visiting support (in-person and through videoconferencing), family centers at several men's prisons, and community-based services for families. Children and youth services provides psycho-social supportive services and developmentally appropriate programs for children and youth in the community. Through counseling, support groups, mentoring, assistance in accessing higher education, supervised visiting with parents (both in-person and through video-visiting), youth development activities, and recreational trips, the program works to alleviate the adverse effects, trauma, and stigma that incarceration has upon children and youth with parents in prison. Services also include the youth experience…

   $7,068,408 spent$559,691 earned by the program
   23% of program spending

4. Reducing reliance on incarerationjail-based services is dedicated to breaking the cycle of recidivism by providing cognitive behavioral therapy, workforce readiness, fatherhood programming, and sector-specific job training. Services are provided both on rikers island and during the critical post-release period by offering support services, including employment placement and retention assistance. The association offers the jail-based community reentry program on rikers island to individuals identified as having the highest need in the community following release, enabling them to access services immediately upon release. The program is part of the individualized corrections achievement network initiative (I-can) of the nyc department of correction. Court advocacy services (cas): a defender-based advocacy program assisting felony and misdemeanor defendants, including youth tried in adult courts, by conducting pre-plea and pre-sentence investigations to identify mitigating circumstances and develop individualized alternatives to incarceration; staff provide court reports and testimony to support community-based sentencing options.project reset: a diversion program providing an…

   $2,477,947 spent$595,607 earned by the program
   8% of program spending

5. The osborne center for justice across generations is the association's policy center. It is built on practitioner-based policy advocacy that is grounded in the experience of its participants and direct-service staff. The center launches with two focus areas: children of arrested or incarcerated parents (through the new york initiative for children of incarcerated parents) and aging in prison and elder reentry. A key element of the policy center, the ny initiative for children of incarcerated parents, is a collaborative effort to raise awareness and reform policy around incarceration's impact 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.

   $693,135 spent
   2% of program spending

6. Fulton community reentry centera redeveloped former correctional facility providing transitional housing and comprehensive reentry services, including workforce development, health services, and case management in a "one-stop" model.

   $535,851 spent
   2% of program spending

7. Adopting healthy lifestylesel rio was a highly structured and medically supervised intensive substance use disorder day-treatment program. It provided 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. The el rio program was closed june 30, 2024 and the association's new york state office of addiction services and supports ("oasas") license ended as of that date. All participants have been referred out to other substance use treatment providers.wellness and prevention provides services for people involved with the criminal justice system at-risk for, or coping with, substance use disorder, hepatitis and hiv/aids, or other infectious diseases. Services include hiv/aids counseling, peer training, education, reentry, discharge, transitional planning, case management, linkage to primary care, treatment adherence, and support groups.elder reentry initiative (eri): provides specialized discharge planning and case management for older adults returning from incarceration, addressing age-related health, housing, and social needs through…

   $10,762 spent
   0% of program spending

The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $31,390,221.