TESTIMONY
Tanya Krupat on the Osborn Association's Initiatives and Funding Needs for Arrest to Reentry Support
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Tanya Krupat, Vice President of Policy and Advocacy at the Osborn Association, testifies on the organization's efforts in supporting individuals from arrest through reentry and outlines their funding requests.
- The Osborn Association assists 10,000 participants annually, advocating for Alternatives to Incarceration (ATIs) over detention on Rikers Island, highlighting their cost-effectiveness and positive impact.
- Krupat details funding requests for initiatives including relaunching programs for detainees on Rikers, working with NYPD to protect children during parents' arrests, a gun accountability program for young adults, and opening a transitional housing center.
- Osborn seeks $20,000 to support its Bronx Osborne Gun Accountability and Prevention Program, aimed at young adults facing their first gun charge, emphasizing its success in preventing incarceration.
- The Association also advocates for the closure of Rikers Island and requests funding for the Bolton Community Reentry Center, offering 140 transitional housing beds for older men returning from prison.
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
Gale Brewer
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on hand That's expired.
Tanya Krupat
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To reducing a number of people there.
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Thank you for your support.