Offender Aid And Restoration Of Charlottesville-Albemarle, Inc.

Offender Aid And Restoration Of Charlottesville-Albemarle, Inc., doing business as Offender Aid & Restoration 1, is a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Charlottesville, Virginia, that operates as a federal grant sub-recipient (86% of recent awards) delivering therapeutic docket services, recovery court case management, and substance abuse treatment coordination to criminal justice and behavioral health agencies. The organization does not hold prime federal contracts or IDVs; all recent work flows through subgrants from state and local grantor agencies administering federal behavioral health and criminal justice grant programs.

OAR's federal funding derives entirely from two customer agencies. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) within the Department of Health and Human Services funds five of the seven recent awards; the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) within the Department of Justice funds the remaining two. All funding is sub-recipient level, meaning OAR receives pass-through grants from state behavioral health and justice program administrators rather than direct federal awards. The Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Services (Virginia state agency) serves as the prime grantee on five sub-awards, while Region Ten Community Services Board Inc. is the prime on one sub-award for therapeutic docket mental health case manager services.

OAR's capability portfolio centers on diversion and reentry programming for high-risk offenders with comorbid behavioral health conditions. Representative work includes therapeutic docket (TD) programming serving adult misdemeanor defendants in Charlottesville and Albemarle County District Courts with serious mental illness and medium-to-high recidivism risk (23 active participants as of June 2026, approximately 75% with co-occurring substance use disorder); recovery court (RC) case management for felony-charged individuals with moderate-to-severe substance use disorder, including opioid use disorder treatment coordination (20 of 23 recovery court participants in medication-assisted treatment as of May 2026); and Fluvanna recovery court case management in a minimum 14-month intensive community supervision model. OAR has received multiple subgrants to expand case management capacity — a second probation case manager position for therapeutic docket (two awards in this category, December 2025 and June 2026), a dedicated full-time case manager for Fluvanna recovery court (December 2025), and local substance abuse treatment provider contracting at OAR's Orange County office to reduce transportation barriers for recovery court participants (May 2025 and June 2026).

Activity has been sparse and episodic. The source shows one award in 2020, four in 2025, and two in 2026; only one award faces completion within the next twenty-four months. Combined dollars obligated across all seven recent sub-awards total $1.3 million. OAR operates as a service delivery and coordination entity rather than a contracting vehicle; expansion depends on secondary recompetes and renewals of state-level behavioral health and criminal justice grants that funnel SAMHSA and BJA dollars to Virginia programs.