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Advancing Black health and wellness justice through collaborations with Black communities and socially conscious partners

10/05/2026

A safer community starts with knowing who to call, and who might need a call. When health or safety is threatened, community and connection helps us turn individual plans into a shared response.

Health Focus: In FEMA’s 2024 preparedness survey, 83% of respondents had taken at least three steps to prepare for a disaster. Those individual steps matter, but community resilience also depends on people staying connected and able to help one another.

Health Practice: Choose one person to check in with before the next emergency. Exchange contact information, sign up for local alerts, and talk about how you would share verified updates or help each other get to safety.

10/04/2026

Like all animals, our lives are lead with purpose. Protect your community, your family, and animal welfare in your spaces. Without care and respect for those different from us, community cannot hope to thrive.

10/03/2026

When our health or safety is threatened, our communities are prepared to help. Be part of your community, and be there for someone.

Health Focus: In a 2023 national survey, 51% of U.S. adults said they felt prepared for a disaster, but only 14% had taken preparedness action with their communities.

Health Practice: Before an emergency, exchange contact information with neighbors and agree on how you will check in. Find out where to get local health and safety alerts, and ask whether anyone may need help receiving updates or getting to safety. During a threat, share verified guidance and offer practical help when it is safe to do so.

10/02/2026

A smile can begin with a little creativity. For World Smile Day, make something that brightens another person’s day: a handwritten note, a favorite playlist, a silly drawing, or an invitation to spend time together.

Health Focus: Making a smile is linked to a small potential increase in feelings of happiness. A smile is not a cure for sadness or depression, though, and no one owes the world a happy face when they are having a hard day.

10/01/2026

Safety should not depend on what someone can afford. This Domestic Violence Awareness Month, let’s turn community and hope into practical support—help survivors make the most of their situation however we can.

Health Focus: The CDC estimates that intimate partner violence has a lifetime economic cost of nearly $135,000 per woman affected and more than $30,000 per man affected. These figures reflect costs such as medical care and lost work.

Health Practice: Support local domestic violence organizations, listen without judgment, and ask what help would be useful rather than assuming. For confidential support in the U.S., call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-SAFE (7233) or text START to 88788.

09/30/2026

In the right conditions and community, care becomes a shared effort. It's the friends who offer a ride, the neighbor who brings dinner, or the community worker who helps someone get a screening appointment. Cherish your community, and your community will care for you.

09/29/2026

Even in times of stress, make space for expression, beauty, and healing. Creativity can be more than a distraction; it can help people name feelings, reclaim a sense of self, and find moments of peace.

Health Focus: A 2026 meta-analysis also found that psychosocial interventions improved quality of life and sexual well-being for people with gynecologic cancer, although results varied across studies.

Health Practice: Practice Kuumba by journaling, drawing, listening to music, creating a playlist, taking photos, writing affirmations, or making something with your hands. Creative care can support emotional well-being alongside primary treatment.

09/28/2026

Healing is not only about treatment—it is also about whether a person can afford the ride, the prescription, the groceries, and the time away from work. This is where our community is needed most.

Health Focus: One study on the financial stressors of gynecological cancer found that 54% of patients beginning a new treatment plan screened positive for financial distress; among those affected, 46% lost wages, 40% paid bills late, and 39% borrowed money.

09/27/2026

Take an active role in the choices that shape your health. Ask questions, seek information, and advocate for care that respects your goals, culture, and needs.

09/26/2026

When our friends and family are struggling, the whole village and community has a role in carrying hope, care, and support. Turn compassion into action so that no family has to navigate their struggles alone.

Health Focus: The 5-year survival rate is 76.4% for non-Hispanic Black children and 80.3% for Hispanic children, compared with about 85% overall among children with cancer in the United States.

Health Practice: Continue building communities around those who need care. Small acts of shared responsibility can ease an enormous burden.

Address

3710 Old Sterlington Road
Monroe, LA
71203

Telephone

+13188165663

Website

https://www.ujimainstitute.com/

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