One Common Unity

Did you know it's World Environment Day? 🌍

At One Common Unity, we believe in the power of Environmental Leadership to create a sustainable future. Join us in celebrating and protecting our planet today and every day. Together, we can make a difference! 🌱✨

Did you know we celebrate Pride Month in June because of the Stonewall Uprising that happened on June 28th, 1969?

The Stonewall Uprising, also known as the Stonewall Riots, was a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the LGBTQ+ community in response to a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

The riots are widely considered to constitute one of the most important events leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States.

The community's response to the raid, which was characterized by violent resistance rather than the more usual passive deference, marked a significant change in the LGBTQ+ rights movement.

This event brought the community together in a fight for equality, leading to the creation of activism groups and the first gay pride parades.

Happy Pride Month from the OCU team. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

It's the last day of Mental Health Awareness Month!

Let's give a huge shoutout to our School-Based Mental Health Team for all their amazing work this month in raising mental health awareness with the students in their schools. 👏👏👏

Some examples of the work that was done included:

⭐ Every day at Mary McLeod Bethune Day Academy this month, a student, class, or staff could take a picture and write an affirming word that represents them.

⭐We hosted mental health awareness workshops for students on topics like anxiety and depression with ways to reduce the physical symptoms in their bodies by using Emotional Freedom (also known as tapping). The students with the best mastery of the material earned a small prize.

⭐ We created a puppet show for pre-k students. The goal of the puppet show was to enhance students' understanding of emotional recognition and ways to reduce uncomfortable feelings such as sadness, madness, anxiety, etc.

⭐ On May 28th, we hosted a student tabling event for Mental Health Awareness Month at Takoma Elementary School.

Earlier this week, our Peace Together team partnered with NAARC's Cure the Streets team for a training on "The Cost of Caring and Vicarious Trauma."

The Cure the Streets team works tirelessly to mitigate gun violence risks in vulnerable communities and NAARC aims to create a safe environment while offering wellness opportunities for their team.

Our goal as an organization is to provide viable, feasible, and desirable training modules that empower these trusted adults, who work with our DC community members, to understand how they may be interfacing with secondary trauma, offer self-care strategies to restore their confidence in caring for themselves, and to help navigate the challenges of the work they do so they may continue showing up as their healthiest and most authentic selves.

We're so full of gratitude that the NAARC staff interacted fully with our curriculum and key facilitators.

We've enjoyed being a part of Eastern's mental health awareness month activities this month.