2025-05-13T14:05:14-07:00 2024-06-30 521680924 HELEN NELSON CPA 14612 MAPLE RIDGE HANCOCK MD 21750 990 2023-07-01 541024562 Offender Aid & Restoration Arlington Co OFFE 7032287040 1400 N Uhle Street Suite 704 Arlington VA 22201 Elizabeth Jones Valderrama Executive Director 2025-05-13 true true Helen Nelson P01343112 3016537110 X 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z 1400 N Uhle Street Suite 704 Arlington VA 22201 1879960 false X www.OARonline.org X 1974 VA OAR envisions a community where those impacted by the legal system enjoy equal human and civil rights. Continued in Schedule O . . . 8 8 12 45 0 1933779 1843427 5897 6595 -2748 19336 0 1936928 1869358 0 0 759795 872151 93475 93975 172269 951570 1167253 1804840 2133379 132088 -264021 1802472 1656642 72361 187798 1730111 1468844 OAR envisions a community where those impacted by the legal system enjoy equal human and civil rights. OAR was founded in 1974, and in 2024, OAR celebrates its 50th anniversary. Continued in Schedule O . . . false false 921140 1924 Reentry Services: OAR is on a journey with individuals of all genders experiencing incarceration in Arlington County Detention Facility, Alexandria's William G Truesdale Adult Detention Center, Coffeewood Correctional Center, and other facilities, as well as those returning from incarceration to Arlington County, the Cities of Alexandria and Falls Church, and surrounding areas in the DC Metro area and beyond. During FY 2024, OAR had the pleasure of working with hundreds of participants through their reentry journey, along with their children and families. Continued in Schedule O 533863 4671 Education and Outreach, Racial Justice, Liberation, Advocacy, and Legislation Change: Our reputation and impact in the community have allowed us to convene leaders and mobilize them to move the needle forward on racial justice and liberation. We address incarceration, the legal system, and all systems upstream, calling out the injustice that permeates these systems, and we seek true justice. Since individuals make up systems, we also support people confronting the daily harm they can cause. We lift the voices of those who've experienced incarceration and racial and other intersecting forms of marginalization. We challenge those who have benefited from the unjust system to become leaders in dismantling systemic injustice and redressing the harm caused. Continued in Schedule O . . . 313568 Alternative Sentencing and Diversion: Through alternative sentencing and diversion programs, people of all genders and ages can stay with their families, continue working or going to school, give back to the community, and avoid the lifelong burdens and collateral consequences that come with incarceration for them and their loved ones. OAR works with Arlington County and the City of Falls Church's Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney and the Courts to provide alternative sentencing and diversion programs. For example, OAR's Community Service program allows youth and adults to be sentenced to volunteer in the community instead of jail time and fines and to work off their accrued court costs. 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That means they meet with specific legislators, the governor, and the Department of Criminal Justice Services DCJS staff members. The firm also follows legislation and bills and then sends us updates. If there is a specific legislative item that all nine of us agree on, we ask them to connect and advocate for or against the legislation. In addition, we have another partnership with a firm in Richmond that helps us understand the legislative process and follows specific legislation we are interested in. We also shared the same information with our supporters, on our website, social media, and communications, so that they can also advocate for or against something. Part IV - Additional Information 155403 65882 89521 89521 X 2048065 2754 178000 -2047 178707 1869358 1869358 2309332 178000 -2047 175953 2133379 2133379 Part X : FIN48 Footnote Management has determined that no significant uncertain tax positions qualify for either recognition or disclosure in the accompanying financial statements. X X X X X X X false Sidnae Global Enterprises 11550 Livingston Road Fort Washington MD 20744 writing grant proposals false 305000 69000 236000 Chesapeake Medical Comm PO Box 1393 Ablington MD 21009 writing grant proposals false 55000 24975 30025 360000 93975 266025 VA Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b A copy of the Form 990 is reviewed by the accounting firm and aproved by the Executive Director. Upon Executive Director's approval, it is forwarded to the full Board of Directors for review and approval. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Each director, officer, and key staff is required to review a copy of the conflict of interst policy annually, which requires each person to disclose any relationships, positions, or circumstances in which he or she believes could contribute to a conflict of interest. Follwoing full disclosure of a possilbe conflict of interest, the Board of Directors shall determine whether a conflict of interst exists, and if so, the Board shall vote to authorize or reject the transaction or take any other action deemed necessary to address the conflict and protect the organization's best interests. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a The Board of Directors awards all employees of OAR, including the Executive Director, an automatic yearly 3% cost-of-living increase. In addition, compensation decisions for the Executive Director are made using comparability data for similar positions in comparable organizations and are reviewed and approved by the Board of Directors. The organization currently has no other compensated officers or employees meeting the key employee definition. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 18 OAR makes its governing documents, certain policies including conflict of interest policy and financial statements available upon request based on discretion of management. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 No documents available to the public. Part I Summary mission Continued . . . OAR is improving communities and increasing public safety through Upstream efforts (social justice, education, and legislative change) and Downstream efforts (journeying with individuals experiencing incarceration, reentering the community after their release, and offering alternative sentencing options). Part III Line 1 Mission Continued . . . The dream for OAR is not to have to exist 50 years after that since we no longer want to be needed. To achieve that, OAR must do great work both Upstream (social justice, education, and legislative change) and Downstream (journeying with individuals experiencing incarceration, reentering the community after their release, and offering alternative sentencing options). Through our Upstream work, we are confronting and dismantling injustices and marginalizations in the legal system and across all systems, as well as advocating for legislative change. Our Downstream work allows us to be on the journey with individuals of all genders impacted by the criminal legal system and support their families in the reentry process. We journey with approximately 500 individuals reentering the community pre-release and post-release, as well as their families, approximately 300 children and families each year. We also offer alternative sentencing options, including community service and diversion programs, so people can avoid the trauma of incarceration and instead help the community thrive. We journey with approximately 100 youth and 1,000 adults enrolled in our alternative sentencing and diversion programs each year. OAR is a collective, non-dominant, decolonizing, racially and ethnically just, radically joyful, deeply loving, come-as-you-are, and liberated organization that puts participants first. We center authentic and fully engaged relationships with all members of the OAR community. OAR uses people-first and strength-based language and sees participants as experts on themselves and leaders of their own lives and plans. OAR actively recruits collective members, volunteers, board members, and contractors who have shared life experiences with program participants, i.e., experience with incarceration or directly impacted by the criminal legal system, experienced with racial marginalization, experience with substance use disorder or mental health needs, or experience with having a loved one affected by incarceration, the criminal legal system, racial marginalization, substance use disorder, or mental health needs. Part III Line 4 a Reentry Services Continued . . . . Our Peer Recovery specialists (individuals with the wisdom and insight of shared experiences and special training) collaborate with the participants pre-release and post-release. OAR offers one-on-one and group programs, training, courses, sessions, and activities, including evidence-based cognitive-behavioral support, fatherhood and healthy relationships, psychotherapy, vocational, educational, personal development, wellness, substance use, reentry planning and readiness, and family reunification. OAR's Reentry program increases public safety. Part III Line 4 b Educ, Outreach, Racial Justice, Liberation, Advocacy Continued . . . . Some of these efforts include ensuring that OAR's internal culture remains just and joyful, facilitating conversations with partners on creating just and joyful spaces, making presentations in the community about our Upstream efforts, working with local law enforcement agencies, Courts, and the Commonwealth Attorney's offices to eliminate discriminatory practices and policies, and partnering with legislators to change laws. OAR also has a 45-poing advocacy and legislative agenda informed by many stakeholders to focus our efforts for the coming years, including 1) reducing the incarcerated population by 20% each year, 2) decreasing the racial disparity in sentencing by at least 20%, 3) establishing expungement in Virginia, and 4) banning the box on all applications, including employment, housing, and educational institutions. OAR is also part of the PAPIS (Pre-release and Post- Incarceration Services) Coalition, a group of nine organizations. Together, we hire a lobbying firm to advocate for increased reentry funding from Virginia. Part III Line 4c Alternative Sentencing and Diversion Continued . . . . Another shining example is OAR's Diversion program, which was implemented in partnership with the Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney of Arlington County and the City of Falls Church. Because of OAR's alternative sentencing and diversion programs, instead of experiencing the trauma of incarceration, more than 1,200 participants stayed in the community and had a 98% success rate. The participants performed meaningful volunteer work and helped their communities thrive. Some participants also get their cases dismissed altogether, and several have been hired at their service sites because of their hard work and dedication. In addition, we have access to a network of more than 300 nonprofits, government organizations, civic organizations, and faith communities that welcome Community Service participants as volunteers. OAR's Alternative Sentencing and Diversion programs increase public safety.