A Leonardtown native who says he is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse is publicly introducing a new nonprofit this week, ahead of its first major fundraiser Friday in his hometown.
Andrew Tinsley has spent the past eight months building OSPREY, short for the Organization for Safety, Prevention & Reform for Exploited Youth, according to Tinsley and the organization’s website. OSPREY describes itself as an early-stage 501(c)(3) public charity developing a “family navigation and coordination model” meant to help youth survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and their families, move through the aftermath of a disclosure or report.
The problem Tinsley says he set out to address is coordination, not access. Families dealing with abuse disclosures often work with advocacy organizations, healthcare providers, investigators, attorneys, schools and community services simultaneously, he said — but no single party is responsible for tracking the whole picture, or catching it when a handoff between those systems fails. OSPREY’s website frames this as families becoming “the default coordinator” of their own case by necessity, even while individual services are functioning as intended. OSPREY’s site outlines an emerging five-part model for how that coordination would work in practice — orienting a family to immediate next steps, mapping the systems involved, making connections, maintaining follow-through, and managing transitions between providers.
OSPREY is not yet operating a live navigation, clinical, crisis, reporting or referral service, and is not currently enrolling families, according to the organization. Its stated focus so far has been building an operating model, safeguarding and privacy workflows, community and partner relationships, and early technology infrastructure — including a concept called Waypoint, described as a way to preserve a family’s case history and consent record so support can resume after a pause without starting over.
Friday’s event, a community quarter auction, will be held at the St. Mary’s County Fairgrounds, 42455 Fairgrounds Road in Leonardtown. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the auction begins at 7 p.m. According to OSPREY, the organization has set a $10,000 direct-donation goal for the fundraiser, with proceeds going toward legal, privacy and safeguarding foundations, partner development, pilot workflow planning, and continued development of Waypoint. Donations can be made online without attending the event; auction-related payments and admission are separately noted by OSPREY as not necessarily tax-deductible.
OSPREY’s own materials are explicit that the event is “an organizational milestone, not a service launch,” and that no pilot partner, geography, launch date or enrollment figures are being announced.
Tinsley’s claims about his personal history and the organization’s nonprofit status are drawn from his own statements and OSPREY’s published materials; because OSPREY is a newly formed organization, its tax-exempt status was not independently verifiable through federal nonprofit databases at the time of publication.
