2022-05-16T16:00:56-05:00 2021-06-30 582676261 Rogers & Company PLLC 8300 Boone Boulevard Suite 600 Vienna VA 22182 990 2020-07-01 541024562 Offender Aid and Restoration of Arlington County Inc OFFE 7032287030 1400 N Uhle Street No 704 Arlington VA 22201 Elizabeth Jones Valderrama Executive Director 7032287030 2022-05-16 1 Elizabeth Jones Valderrama 999009999 Hemali Kane EA P01337292 7038930300 2022-05-16 2 AAL1 IAL1 2020 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z Elizabeth Jones Valderram 1400 N Uhle Street No 704 Arlington VA 22201 1854535 0 X OARonline.org X 1974 VA OAR is a community based restorative justice organization - See Schedule O 9 9 16 40 0 0 1323030 1785441 44235 50888 6453 18206 313 -6631 1374031 1847904 0 0 0 0 816049 588315 0 0 22835 638559 733284 1454608 1321599 -80577 526305 958876 1483809 227409 196400 731467 1287409 X OAR is a community-based nonprofit organization that envisions a safe and thriving community where those impacted by the legal system enjoy equal civil and human rights. - See Schedule O 0 0 482477 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 those on the journey home from incarceration to Arlington County and the Cities of Alexandria and Falls Church. See Schedule O for additional information. 214315 50888 Alternative Sentencing and Diversion: Through alternative sentencing and diversion, 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 Courts to provide alternative sentencing programs. OAR's Community Service program allows youth and adults to do volunteer work in the community in lieu of jail time and fines and to work off their accrued court costs. See Schedule O for additional information. 212644 Racial Justice and Liberation - We address incarceration, the legal system, and all systems "upstream"- calling out the racism that permeates these systems and seeking justice. Since individuals make up systems, we also support people to confront their personal racism and the harm they can cause on a daily basis. We lift the voices of those who've experienced racism and other intersecting forms of marginalization. We challenge those who've benefited from personal and systemic racism to become leaders in dismantling injustice and redressing the harm caused by personal racism. See Schedule O for additional information. 187553 Education and Outreach: Our downstream work allows us to be on the journey with individuals returning from incarceration and their families (both pre- and post-release). 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That means they meet with specific legislators, the Governor , and staff members from the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) . The firm also follow legislation and bills and then send us the 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. 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. 95456 57808 37648 37648 Refundable advance 100000 100000 X 2061936 29637 179600 6631 215868 1846068 1836 1836 1847904 1505994 179600 6631 186231 1319763 1836 1836 1321599 Part X, Line 2: Management has determined that no significant uncertain tax positions qualify for either recognition or disclosure in the accompanying financial statements. Part XI, Line 2d - Other Adjustments: Fundraising Event Expenses 6,631. Part XII, Line 2d - Other Adjustments: Fundraising Event Expenses 6,631. Breakfast 16425 16425 6631 16425 16425 6631 6631 -6631 Form 990, Parts I and III, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission: Through our Upstream work, we are confronting and dismantling individual racism and racism in the legal system and across all systems. Our Downstream work allows us to be on the journey with individuals returning from incarceration and their families. 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. OAR is a collective, non-dominant, decolonizing, pro-Black, racially 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 team members, volunteers, and board members who have shared life experiences with program participants. Program participants are active in our Action Network (on hold due to the pandemic) and other community programs for racial justice (always with stipends to compensate them for their time and travel costs), not only sharing their knowledge of and lived experience with racism and mass incarceration with others but also emerging as advocates and leaders for racial justice and liberation whose voices carry the same or more weight as those of others in the room. Form 990, Part III, Line 4a Reentry Services: (continued) Individuals with the wisdom and insight of shared experiences lead supportive programs in our local detention facilities in Arlington and Alexandria. OAR's pre-release programs include evidence-based cognitive-behavioral, fatherhood and healthy relationships, and group psychotherapy programs, as well as vocational, educational, and personal development, wellness, substance use, one-on-one transition planning, reentry readiness programs, and family reunification activities. Post-release, OAR's Reentry Program has become a welcoming, warm, and loving community. Each week the reentry community gathers virtually for a weekly support group. During FY21, OAR had the pleasure of working with over 360 participants through their reentry journey. OAR provides individualized coaching and assistance with transition, employment, housing, cell phones, laptops, clothing, food, referrals, and more, to individuals while they secure a safe reentry back into the community for themselves. OAR is expanding our offerings of therapeutic services. Along with the small group psychotherapy offered at Arlington County Detention Facility, OAR currently has established a post-release pilot, gender-responsive, clinical services initiative in Old Town, Alexandria. We will also be launching an alternative to violence program in 2022. OAR also enjoys long-established connections with both public social service agencies and other nonprofits in our area who team with us to assist program participants. We have access to a network of more than 300 nonprofits, government organizations, and faith communities that welcome our Community Service participants as volunteers. OAR has longstanding partnerships with the Arlington County Sheriff's Office, the Alexandria Sheriff's Office, and the Virginia Department of Corrections, which manage the correctional facilities where we work. Our partners also include the Arlington County government, City of Alexandria government, City of Falls Church government, Arlington County and City of Falls Church Commonwealth Attorney's Office and Courts, Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, Arlington and Alexandria Probation and Parole offices, Arlington and Alexandria Reentry Discharge Committees, and Arlington and Alexandria Community Criminal Justice Boards, among others. Our reputation and impact in the community have allowed us to convene leaders and mobilize them to move the needle forward on racial justice. Form 990, Part III, Line 4b, Community Service: (continued) OAR is implementing a Diversion program in partnership with the Vera Institute and Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney - Arlington County and the City of Falls Church with the goal of reducing recidivism as well as racial disparities amongst individuals sentenced to diversion programs. Instead of experiencing the trauma of incarceration, more than 1,200 participants stayed in the community and performed meaningful volunteer work through our alternative sentencing and diversion programs with a 98% success rate. Some participants also get their cases dismissed altogether and several have been hired at their service sites because of their hard work and dedication. We partnered with more than 300 nonprofits, faith communities, and government agencies for these programs. Form 990, Part III, Line 4c, Ant-Racism, Racial Justice, and Liberation: Some of these efforts include facilitating virtual learning cohorts for community members that address liberation and dismantling whiteness. OAR is proud to be a pro-Black organization. We believe that the opposite of racism is pro-Blackness. It is not enough to simply be "anti-racist." That is the bare minimum of what we as human beings should be as a part of this community. Being pro-Black does not equal "anti-White or "anti-anything else." Pro-Blackness and celebrating and uplifting Blackness is for the benefit of all, which means we ALL win. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 8b The Board of Directors makes all decisions for OAR. Board committees do not have authority to act on behalf of the Board, only to make recommendations to the Board. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b A copy of the Form 990 is reviewed by the accounting firm and approved by the Executive Director. Upon Executive Director's approval, it is forwarded to the full Board of Directors for 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 interest policy yearly, which requires each person to disclose any relationships, positions or circumstances in which he or she believes could contribute to a conflict. Following full disclosure of a possible conflict of interest, the Board of Directors shall determine whether a conflict of interest 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 OAR's best interests. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15a 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 19 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 XII, Line 2c: Members of OAR's Board of Directors assume responsibility for oversight of the audit, including selection of independent accountant. This process is consistent with prior years.