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Director of Case Management Services Beth Smith conducts social distancing case management with client Gerald

Overcoming COVID-19!

Posted by: Bill Simpson, CEO - Open Door America on Wednesday, June 3, 2026 Comments (1)

When news broke on March 13th that Maryland was going into full shutdown mode, you could feel the air go out of our ex-offender demonstration project funded by the Governor of Maryland.  Seriously?  Really?  After a year of planning and hard work, it was all going to go up in smoke because of a pandemic?  No way!  We persevered!  (The Governor will be very proud.)

 

Open Door America Receives Major Grant from State of Maryland

Posted by: Bill Simpson, CEO - Open Door America on Tuesday, March 3, 2026 Comments (1)

Open Door America has received a major grant from the State of Maryland to help fund a prisoner reentry partnership with the Howard County Department of Corrections.  Since summer 2019, ODA has been working "behind the walls" with HCDC staff to identify the 20 best-suited candidates for this groundbreaking reentry project.

Howard County Executive Announces Grant for Open Door America

Posted by: Bill Simpson, CEO - Open Door America on Tuesday, February 25, 2026 Comments (0)

On February 25, 2020 Howard County Executive Calvin Ball announced that Ellicott City nonprofit Open Door America has received a major grant from the State Maryland to partner with the Howard County Department of Corrections in 2020.