The NCUIH Youth Advisory Council , in partnership with the United National Indian Tribal Youth Inc. offered resources and tools for Native youth across Indian Country during a National Virtual Native Youth Healing Gathering. The UNITY Peer Guides were featured as guest presenters to share the Healing Indigenous Lives Initiative and ways they are finding healing through using […]
UNITY Peer Guides would like to share this article By Danielle Lipow as part of their recommended readings. | May 12, 2020 Though it’s been 12 years since I visited, an image from a juvenile confinement facility in Alabama remains vivid in my mind’s eye: a simple wall, visible from a glass control room, separating two identical […]
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Happy 44th Birthday UNITY! We are so happy to be celebrating so many wonderful years together! The UNITY Peer Guides would like you to take part in the Pass the Shirt Challenge! Take any UNITY conference T-shirt you own and show us how UNITY has inspired you! #NativeYouth44 Don’t forget to tag @unitypeerguides as well […]
As many of our Native youth are faced with the reality of being confined to their homes and often rooms, their cellphones and social media become their only outlets. While social media is seen by many as a negative and hindering outlet, there are people changing that narrative, Native youth.
In a message from Toiyabe Family Services Youth Prevention and Circles of Care, UNITY Peer Guide Leticia Gonzales shares mental health resources for Native youth and families. Leticia Lucille Gonzales, is an enrolled member of the Bishop Paiute Tribe in Bishop, California and serves as a UNITY Healing Indigenous Lives ambassador.
UNITY Peer Guide and current reigning 2019-2020 Miss Indian World Cheyenne Kippenberger was honored and recognized during the final Grand Entry of the 2020 Seminole Tribe of Florida Pow Wow.
Washington, DC – “It was encouraging to see so many of our UNITY youth leaders in action with tribal leaders as part of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Tribal Nations Policy Summit held last month in Washington, DC,” said UNITY’s Fund Development Director Greg Mendoza, who attended the event as part of UNITY’s […]
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Our partners at National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH) have postponed this virtual gathering. UNITY Peer Guides will offer a virtual break out session during the Native Youth Healing Gathering when the new date is announced. Stay tuned for more information www.ncuih.org for more details.
