Tanya Krupat
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Thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony today.
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My name is Tanya Coupat.
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I'm the vice president of policy and advocacy at the Osborn Association.
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Osborn serves 10,000 participants in programs from arrest to reentry each year.
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Osborne has been a proud member of the ATI and reentry coalition since its inception, and we are among the 11 organizations included in this year's funding request.
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We are grateful for counsel support for the vital services we collectively provide.
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ATI's are effective and affordable.
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For the cost of one person being detained on Rutgers for 1 year, a year in which they are likely experienced or witnessed violence.
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To be separated from their family, may lose their job in home, and their health, and mental health may worsen, ATI's conserve more than thirty people.
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Yielding positive and life changing results that make us all safer.
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Osborn has submitted a number of funding requests to the council, which are detailed in my written testimony.
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Which include funding to relaunch programs for people detained on Rykers, while we also called for the full restoration of the 17,000,000 that was eliminated.
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At the end of this past June, as well as for the closure of Rikers.
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We're also requesting funding for our work with NYPD to safeguard children at the time of their parents' arrest.
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For the past 3 years, the council has funded Osborn to lead this work.
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We're enormously grateful, but there is much that's left to be done.
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Including working on the issue of executing warrants to reduce trauma to children.
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And NYPD commissioner Kevan has submitted a letter of support for this request.
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To advance the goal of gun violence prevention, we're requesting $20,000 for our BOGA, Bronx Osborne gun accountability and prevention program.
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Which serve sixteen to thirty year olds facing their first gun charge.
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Bogat is very successful in keeping young people out of jail in prison, saving 1,000,000 of dollars.
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And achieving positive outcomes.
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We're also requesting funding for our soon to be open Bolton Community Reentry Center, which will provide a 140 transitional housing bids for older men returning from prison.
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We're grateful for the council steadfast support to reduce arrest the impact of arresting duration on the city and the trauma that the simplex, particularly on black and brown communities.
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To close records, Island, we need an
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To reducing a number of people there.
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Thank you for your support.
